Welcome to the 179th 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
@swmansionxyz - Cairo-profiler v0.10.0 is here - Now with improved readability for fork tests and a couple of important bug fixes to make your profiling smoother and more accurate
@StarkWareLtd - The first delegation round of the StarkWare Delegation Program has been executed - Dozens of active validators have just received delegation from StarkWare, and a new round of applications is now open
@StarknetFndn - Starknet Foundation is launching our first-ever staking delegation program - Under program terms, eligible validators will receive delegation that matches their stake in 1:1 ratio and up to 5M STRK
@StarkWareLtd - What’s that again - StarkWare is now running its own validator, with 30M STRK staked
@realms_gg - The game's evolving, and with it, our name (& handle) - Eternum is now 1 of a growing number of game modes - Realms game (previously Eternum) is introducing two gaming mode: Realms: Blitz (2-hours game season) - Realms: Eternum (multi-week long seasons)
@SharkX_Trading - The first prop trading firm fully on-chain - Here’s a new DeFi project live on Mainnet, offering Perp trading and the ability to borrow funds to trade
@trovesfi - With zkLend shutting down, the final batch of claims from their $200K recovery fund is now live on Troves - Affected users can now redeem their share
@NimboraIntern - All Nimbora users can now redeem their sSTRK and swap it for the underlying STRK
@ohayo_dojo - This week's Dojo roundup - Here is the Dojo weekly recap
Ecosystem stats
@Starknet - 400M STRK are now staked on Starknet - ~12% of the STRK circulating supply
@nansen_ai - After a bit of a dip three days back, @Starknet txns are surging again - Daily transactions bounced back up to 745K within days
Starknet TVL - TVL on Starknet now worth $560m
Vibecoding on Starknet | Build a Web3 app with AI under 15 minuets
Heavily discussed Starknet Improvement Proposals
SNIP 30: v0.14.0
SN 0.14.0 pre-release notes
Proposal for the Monetary Committee: Adjusting the Inflation Coefficient (c) to Support Sustainable Staking Participation
Bitcoin Staking on Starknet
Fall Roadmap Updates
Useful links & articles
@cartridge_gg - 500 medieval MMA fans played a blockchain game last month - none of them knew it was blockchain - Learn how Blob Arena onboarded 500 blockchain noobies onchain
Developer resources
@StarkWareLtd - Fully vibe coding a Starknet dApp in under 15 mins, without writing a single line of code - Here is a full video tutorial
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