Welcome to the 134th edition of my weekly comprehensive Starknet summary. Reading this newsletter allow you to catch up on all the important news from the last week in just 10 minutes of reading.
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Protocol & dev tool updates
@StarkWareLtd - We’re excited to announce a partnership with Bitcoin OGs @scryptplatform - The end goal of this partnership is to explore the engineering challenges of building a Bitcoin <> L2 canonical bridge
@reclaimprotocol - We are proud to be enabling all the developers within the @Starknet ecosystem who are actively looking for zkTLS solutions - This will help with use-cases like secondary KYC, dispute resolution, identity aggregation and else
@swmansionxyz - Cairo-Coverage 0.1.0 now live - Improve Cairo code reliability with deep insights & test coverage
@OpenZeppelin - The latest release of OpenZeppelin Contracts for Cairo (v0.16.0) is now available
@swmansionxyz - 0.30.0 of starknet-foundry is here - This one brings requested fixes, and integration with cairo-coverage
@walnut_dev - Weekly nuts and bolts from Walnut - Here are the latest improvements brought by Walnut
Ecosystem Highlights
@Starknet - Now it's time to ship STRK staking and Cairo-Native to finish the year strong - STRK staking is coming in October/November, while Cairo-Native in December
@fede_intern - We have been running benchmarks between Cairo Native and the Cairo VM: On average, Cairo Native is 5 times faster than the Cairo VM - Cairo Native is coming on Mainnet in December
@StarkGuardians - As StarkGuardians, we are excited to introduce the very first NFT lending and borrowing protocol on Starknet - The testnet of this new product is live
@keplrwallet - under conSTRKtion - Keplr wallet is coming to Starknet
@Starknet - To ensure we’re fully prepared for the first official governance vote happening next week, we’re currently running a test vote
@Nimbora_ - We're thrilled to announce that Nimbora is now open to the public - A lot of upgrades are coming with it, but the biggest change for you is that you no longer need a referral to use Nimbora
@LayerAkira - Our road to mainnet will be done in two phases - The Layer Akira mainnet is coming in a few weeks: 16/09 closed mainnet - 23/09 open mainnet
@LootSurvivor - 1.5 mainnet pre-release tournament is now live - Loot Survivor is back on Mainnet
@lordOfAFew - There is a new marketplace - This is the only place where you can buy and sell directly within your Cartridge controller
@Nimbora_ - Penpiexyz_io, a protocol built on Pendle that we use to boost rewards, experienced a security breach today: our npstETH pool (Pendle's stETH pool) was drained - Nimbora get affected by the Penpie exploit on Ethereum
@Nimbora_ - In light of the recent events, we have put together a detailed post-mortem and action plan to address the situation - Here is the plan of Nimbora following the Penpie exploit
@CarmineOptions - We are delighted to unveil the Price Protect feature on Carmine Options - Price Protection kicks in when the market drops to ensure that you don't lose more than you can handle
@Starknet_OG - There are some very interesting games coming soon on Starknet - A Pirate Nation like game, a WoW like game, and an Age of Empire like game
@zkLend - We’re proud to announce that @zkLend has fully integrated price feeds powered by @Chainlink
@gogibear - Check out the impressive submissions from the Dojo NYC Residency Game Jam
@argentHQ - new week. new website - Argent launches its new website
@PragmaOracle - We're thrilled to announce the Open-Source Liquidation Bot for @vesuxyz
@playDRAGARK - Dragark uses Session keys for seamless play, delegating transaction signing from your main wallet to a Game Wallet (Burner) with just one initial sign - You just need one sign to initiate your gameplay session with Dragark
@focustree_app - We've just released our new onboarding: new users can connect directly with Google or Apple account
@ohayo_dojo - Welcome to the September 4th Dojo Weekly Roundup - Here is the Dojo weekly recap
Ecosystem stats
Starknet TVL - TVL on Starknet now worth $590M
@vesuxyz - $10M TVL unlocked - Vesu has already gathered $10m of TVL in deposits on its protocol
@Starknet - Already 1 month since @DuneAnalytics has integrated Starknet data - Here some notable Dune dashboards
@tokenterminal - Want to get listed on Token Terminal with your own project dashboard? - Simply follow the step described in the tweet
@tokenterminal - @EkuboProtocol is now live on Token Terminal
@tokenterminal - @nostrafinance is now live on Token Terminal
Starknet v0.13.2: Introducing Parallel Transaction Execution and Block Packing
Heavily discussed Starknet Improvement Proposals
Staking on Starknet voting proposal
Upcoming Staking vote
SNIP 18: Staking’s First Stage on Starknet
Cairo v2.8.0 is out!
Useful links & articles
@CryptoTraalala - Discover Dark Shuffle, a game within @LootRealms ecosystem
@cairopractice - The inherent security of Starknet - When it comes to security, Starknet is probably the best network to build on, here’s why
@Fricoben - A productive month for the Cairo Book and more developers than ever! Let's take a look at this month - Here is the Cairo book monthly recap
Developer resources
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Thank you for reading, and see you next week. ⏳
wow, the ecosystem is growing like craaazy, pls don't miss it lol