Welcome to the 148th 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
@GaragaStarknet - New Garaga release brings performance improvement and full support for @NoirLang proofs
@NethermindStark - Introducing StarkWeb - a front-end SDK now live in beta - Build on Starknet with the same workflow you know from Ethereum using a modified Wagmi/Viem SDK
@OpenZeppelin - The latest release of OpenZeppelin Contracts for Cairo (v0.20.0) is now available
Ecosystem Highlights
@RealmsEternum - Your civilisation and your tribe need you - Eternum Mainnet is now live on Starknet
@Starknet - The best time to become a LP on Starknet was the 22nd of February of this year. The second best time is now - DeFi Spring will continue until at least the end of the 90M STRK budget (with approximately 40M STRK still to be distributed)
@Starknet - We’re expanding DeFi Spring incentives to include new tokens on participating DEXs - Say hello to: EKUBO and LORDS
@FordefiHQ - We’re thrilled to announce @Starknet is now supported on the #FORDEFI wallet platform - This is a big unlock for institutionel who want to stake or access DeFi spring
@extendedapp - Extended Open Launch - Alpha: this StarkEx powered Perp DEX plans to migrate on Starknet in the future
@StarkWareLtd - What is one of the main advantages of STARK? Quantum Resistant - FYI Starknet can be *post quantum secure* in 2 months: Starknet just needs to replace Pedersen by Poseidon
@BitrueOfficial - #Bitrue is now offering $STRK staking - You can now stake your STRK directly from Bitrue CEX
@focustree_app - X2 our DAU just today on @focustree_app - Focus Tree broke its all time high in users & downloads
@Goku_Hub - This marks the start of an exciting new chapter as we redefine our mission and build the first native Perpetual DEX on @Starknet - Here is a new project on Starknet building a Perp DEX and a TG wallet
@StarkWareLtd - The "AI Winter Is Coming" hackathon has ended and we got amazing submissions - Here is the list of these winners, and note that 2 new hackathons are coming soon
@OctavFi - @Starknet wallet balance and transaction details are now live on Octav - OctavFi is an advanced onchain treasury management and financial reporting
@LayerAkira - We've just crossed $1M of spot volume on @LayerAkira
@NimboraIntern - Due to the lack of information from Support regarding the current status of the official account, Nimbora Intern will be used as an official communication channel of Nimbora dApp until further notice
@fiddybps1 - We've now fully migrated all of the Paradex Core and Oracle contracts from Cairo 0 to Cairo 1
@ohayo_dojo - Let's look at what this historic week brought to the @ohayo_dojo ecosystem - Here is the Dojo ecosystem weekly recap
@zkLend - @zkLend Wrapped is here - Here is the zkLend annually recap
@Bountive - Recap of the week for Bountive - Here is the Bountive weekly recap
@KakarotZkEvm - We’re proud to share that our EVM-on-Starknet code, available on our GitHub, has been audited by @code4rena
Ecosystem stats
@Starknet_OG - Starknet ranks number 3 in terms of net flows over the past week, just behind the two highly active chains, Base and Solana
@Starknet_OG - The much-anticipated annual Dev Report by @ElectricCapital for 2024 is finally live - Here is a TLDR of this report
Starknet TVL - TVL on Starknet now worth $1.1B
STARK Spaces | Starknet Staking with Liquid Staking Tokens
Heavily discussed Starknet Improvement Proposals
SNIP25: Starknet security council V1.0
SNIP <TBD> - Starknet monetary committee
Fall Roadmap Updates
Starknet v0.13.3
Cairo 2.9.0 is out!
Upcoming vote: Termination of Transaction Versions 0,1,2
SNIP 18: Staking’s First Stage on Starknet
Accountability and Incentives for Consensus
Welcome to the Staking Delegator Introduction Thread
SNIP-20: Enshrined Paymasters for ERC-20 tokens
Starknet: Multilang & MultiVM
Useful links & articles
@Starknet - In celebration of its highly anticipated mainnet launch, the first in our Game Spotlight series: Eternum - Deep dive thread about Eternum
@FOCGERS - Eternum Game Guide - Here is a deep dive guide of Eternum game
Developer resources
@Starknet - Get ready for the Starknet Winter Hackathon - January 6 to 19th
@swmansionxyz - Starknet Foundry’s sncast offers the best UX in the ecosystem for transactions using complex calldata - See how you can use it
@buidlbox - Join the Starknet Winter Hackathon from Jan 6–19, 2025, and become part of the growing @Starknet ecosystem - Sign up now: https://tinyurl.com/mvx9bmjx
@OnlyDust_com - #ODHack 11 is approaching - This time, 14 @Starknet projects are participating; here are all these projects
@barretodavid - IMO the best way to create a dev environment for Cairo with all the tools you might ever need is to use this Docker image with VSCode and Dev Containers - Check out @emmanex94 guide on how to use this Docker image with VSCode
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