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This is the 6th edition of your weekly StarkNet summary. The previous update can be found here.
Let’s get into this week’s news! 👇
Protocol & dev tool updates
StarkNet Alpha v0.7.1is now live on Mainnet.New version of
starknet-hardhat-pluginv0.4.1has been released.Bllu released a Perlin noise implementation in Cairo.
Professor Noam Nisan is joining StarkWare's Scientific Advisory Board.
An implementation of Ethereum's pairing-friendly EllipticCurve alt_bn128 in Cairo by tekkac.
AES-128 implementation in Cairo by onurinanc.
zaphod threw together some Cairo coding functionality like felt conversions - tx status - contract call - signature tools into a web tool.
Argent Xv2.3.0has been released.
Media highlights
JediSwap talk on Ethereum Scalability, StarkNet, and the Ecosystem ft.@gakonst @GuthL @imrgoyal @jniset @Swagtimus @guiltygyoza @tarrenceva
DeversiFi, Opera, and StarkWare on the future of DeFi and what the first ever mobile browser wallet on L2 $ETH really means for all users
Summarized notes for this call can be found here.
Ecosystem
Want to build on StarkNet? Check out this new building on StarkNet page.
Token Flow Insights’ Beta programs for both the Ethereum Data Warehouse (EDW) and the new StarkNet Data Warehouse (SDW) are now open for sign-up.
For anyone who played OGame in the glorious early 2000’s, ametel01 is building an implementation of it on StarkNet, where planets will be NFTs and resources ERC20 tokens.
Layer 2 bridge protocol Orbiter Finance is adding StarkNet support.
Martin Krug has refactored the underlying logic of his on-chain Chess game.
Aave's governance proposal to start deploying some of their DAO's funds to StarkNet, has passed by unanimous agreement. Here’s what it means:
Dope Wars is creating a documentary featuring members of their community.
NFT marketplace Oasis is having another big release, featuring Universal Search, Custom Username, Profile Pics, Banner backgrounds, Collection page stats, activity, and a redesign.
The StarkNet spin-off game of Loot, Realms, has teased their new Atlas feature, with 8,000 Realms and 9,000 crypts and dungeons to explore. Realms has also shown off their upgrade from 2D to 3D maps. In addition, there was a Twitter space to talk on-chain games, maps, LootRealms, and more.
ZigZag Exchange have shown off their new trading UI.
Briq alpha 1.2 is out. It introduces the "select & move" function.
Continually updated list of projects building on StarkNet. 🏗️
The browser Opera has integrated with DeversiFi, bringing their users faster, easier, and cheaper $ETH P2P transactions.
StarkNet Shamans Community Highlight
StarkNet decentralization : Kicking off the discussion
StarkNet continues to evolve, and we gradually shift our gaze towards decentralization. While we expect StarkNet to be decentralized only at the end of the year, it’s not too early to decide on the decentralization scheme..
Useful links & articles
Past week
Interpreting StarkNet transactions by Harry Scholes
A twitter thread summary of the STARK 101 workshop at EthDenver, held by Henri Lieutaud, summarized by Simão.
What's Danksharding and crList, and why are they so groundbreaking? Thread on Ethereum protocol upgrades and how they relate to rollups by pseudotheos.
odin-free.eth’s thread on 25 projects you can try on StarkNet today.
This week
Decentralizing patent offices by guiltygyoza.
polynya on economic efficiency of rollups, on the endgame bottleneck (historical storage), on decentralizing upgradability, and on what mini-danksharding means for rollups.
Understanding rollup economics from first principles by barnabe.eth.
Developer resources
Last week
The Cairo jupyter kernel is now hosted via Binder. Learn, iterate and fail fast new ideas on cairo, without setting up locally by Ankit Chiplunkar.
Want to write a STARK prover? This classic exercise comes with video lectures (10 minutes each and python code) - STARK 101 by StarkWare.
StarkNet ByteSized Video #2 - Account Contracts by StarkWare
SymbOnStark has added step 4 to his Cairo tutorial.
This week
Avihu Levy on what it means to have SNARK verification on StarkNet.
If you're interested in starting a new StarkNet/Cairo project, using Hardhat and Typescript as dev/testing/deployment infrastructure, here’s a clean template repo by clacla.
Dates and Events
next community call March 1st: Presentation by zkLend, roadmap update by StarkNet team.
Encode x StarkNet hackathon: Feb 28th until April. Here’s a blog post outlining the Hackathon challenges.
The Argent team is joining the Encode hackathon, with a dedicated workshop about wallets and accounts on StarkNet on Tues, March 1st.
Warp Away! From Solidity to Cairo - with Greg Vardy. Has been rescheduled due to tech issues.
First ever StarkNet hackathon: April 25-26, Amsterdam.
StarkNet Summit: TBD
Please note that, in order to keep this newsletter at an acceptable length, I am purging the sections “Useful links and articles” and “Developer resources” on a biweekly basis. Thus they are divided into the sections “past week” and “this week”. You can check out all of the past updates here.
Thank you for reading, and see you next week. ⏳
Special thanks to odin_free and starkwhale for helping me source some of the information! 🔍