StarkNet Roundup #7

Weekly summary of all things StarkNet

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gm fellow STARK enthusiasts! ✨🐺

This is the 7th 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

• Pathfinder: A StarkNet full node, released by Equilibrium. There’s already a tutorial on how to run your own node by DZupp.

  StarkWare @StarkWareLtd

  Another step towards decentralization✨ Presenting: Pathfinder - StarkNet full node - by @equilibrium_co! Pathfinder means there is no need to trust information provided by others. Just go to GitHub, run the node, and query your own data. All by yourself.

  

  github.comGitHub - eqlabs/pathfinder: A Starknet full node written in RustA Starknet full node written in Rust. Contribute to eqlabs/pathfinder development by creating an account on GitHub.

• New version of starknet-devnet v0.1.17 has been released.

• New version of starknet-hardhat-plugin v0.4.3 has been released.

• A new version of the block explorer Voyager is available, with features like: Read functions with ArgentX, Supporting contract verification with multiple source files, and many more.

• A general-purpose Cairo library for integer types released by Jamie Gabbay.

• Build the future faster with starknet-scaffold by tarrence.eth.

• Francesco Ceccon started working on a standard for Modular StarkNet Contracts, heavily inspired by the Diamond Standard.

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Media highlights

StarkNet community call #9 - zkLend

StarkNet Wallets & Accounts + Syntax - Encode Hackathon ft. Argent’s @jniset

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Ecosystem

• Want to build on StarkNet? Check out this building on StarkNet page.

• Alpha Road Finance, a new DeFi platform on StarkNet, introduces itself, as well as a new StarkNet Ecosystem Dashboard.

• Introducing zkLend: Coming out of Stealth mode - a new L2 money-market project.

• Introducing NFTflow, the liquidity protocol for NFTs on StarkNet.

• ZkPad, a launchpad for StarkNet dApps, published an introductory article about its products, as well as their whitepaper.

• ZKasino gives an update on their VRF plans on StarkNet.

• Da Blob is writing a Sablier app implementation in Cairo.

• Introducing Magnety, an on-chain asset management protocol that allows anyone, such as investment groups, DAOs, or individuals, to get the most out of DeFi through an easy-to-use platform.

• MatchboxDAO, a collective of developers, artists, and designers building the infrastructure of on-chain games on StarkNet, has exited stealth and shared their mission & core activites, as well as their first primitive.

• Conway’s Game of Life is now on StarkNet - created by perama.eth and Yuki Labs.

• JediSwap implements ZAP feature which helps you convert any of your tokens directly into LP-pair tokens.

• RPG game Eykar shared a sneak peek of their terrain generation.

• NFT building protocol Briq has released Alpha 1.3, featuring the ability to export your briq NFTs in .vox and .glb files.

• Dope Wars shares an impressive sneak peek/teaser of their game & roadmap:

  Dope Wars @TheDopeWars

  This Weeks Sneaks Tunes from: @unkleofficial $Paper $Dope

• The StarkNet spin-off game of Loot, Realms, has shared some information about their upcoming Tower Defence mini-game.

• Continually updated list of projects building on StarkNet. 🏗️

• Over 665 people have interacted with Henri Lieutaud’s StarkNet tutorials. 🥳

• The Argent X wallet has crossed 40k users. 🥳

• Weekly StarkNet stats: 228k txs on Goerli, 5k txs on Mainnet. To date: 969k txs on Goerli, / 40k txs on Mainnet.

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StarkNet Shamans Community Highlights

StarkNet Monthly Update February

Outlining the features of upcoming StarkNet Alpha versions, as well as the mainnet bridge release plans for the StarkGate.

StarkNet Account Abstraction Model - Part 1

This post outlines the goals and model of account abstraction to be used in Starknet. We look to collect feedback and implement the model, possibly in phases, in Starknet Alpha. This is the first of two posts describing current thoughts.

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Useful links & articles

Past 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.

This week

• Extreme Integrity in Decentralized World - A Blockchain Vision That Would Impress Narnia’s Creator by Eli Ben-Sasson

• The Relentless Pursuit Of A Better Internet - Announcing Nethermind Synthesis by Greg Vardy

• DeFi Pooling explained by odin free.

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Developer resources

Last 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.

This week

• Mallows share their dev experience building on StarkNet.

• Big compilation of dev resources by ZkPad Analytics.

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Dates and Events

• Join Udi Wertheimer, Eli Ben-Sasson and Avihu Levy on a Twitter space about how StarkNet scales DeFi, NFTs, and possibly even Bitcoin tomorrow, March 7th.

  udiverse black @udiWertheimer

  udiverse heard that starknet can scale defi and nfts, maybe even #bitcoin but udiverse doesn’t know how join udiverse on monday, maybe @EliBenSasson and @avihu28 can teach udiverse or else https://t.co/jANZJHNQhp

• next community call March 15th: Presentation by Francesco Ceccon on starknet-react, roadmap update by StarkNet team.

• Encode x StarkNet hackathon: Feb 28th until April. Here’s a blog post outlining the Hackathon challenges.

• Warp Away! From Solidity to Cairo - with Greg Vardy, March 10th.

• StarkWare is a sponsor for Layer 2 Amsterdam: April 19th-20th.

• First ever StarkNet hackathon: April 25-26, Amsterdam.

• StarkNet Summit: TBD

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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! 🔍