Starknet roundup 224
Everything you need to know about what happened in the Starknet ecosystem over the past week
Welcome to the 224th 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 5 minutes of reading!
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Protocol & dev tool updates
@rodro_pino - Juno is now more sexy for Starknet validators: reduce your Mainnet DB size to under 100 GBs with pruning - Less storage means more access to cheaper Validator bundles
Ecosystem Highlights
@StarkWareLtd - Shield Rush is now live - You can now complete private quests on Starknet and earn rewards privately along the way
@Starknet - Private @USDC features are now live on Starknet - Users can shield or unshield USDC by Circle at any time, send it privately, and use it in DeFi without exposing balances, amounts, or counterparties on the public ledger
@extendedapp - Spot trading is live on Extended - Extended has added spot markets for BTC, ETH, and USDT, with spot and perpetuals now sharing a single margin account
@StarkWareLtd - We’re building a better model with Private KYC powered by STRK20s - The second STRK20s demo is here, this time tackling the broken KYC model
@StarkWareLtd - Every two days, $420.69 will be allocated to the best piece of content - For the next few weeks, StarkWare is rewarding the best content around Starknet privacy and what private onchain assets unlock
@defaprimitive - DeFa Private Mainnet is live on @Starknet - This new project, connecting stablecoin liquidity with verified receivables, business cashflows, and payment-linked flows, is now live on Starknet
Ecosystem stats
@Lyskey - Starknet’s privacy pool is now doing: ~5k transactions per day - ~$500 in revenue per day - ~100 new users onboarded per day - And we’re not even at 10% of what the privacy pool will become in terms of UX and composability
@Cointelegraph - Starknet topped Santiment’s latest Layer 2 developer activity rankings, followed by Aztec, Optimism, zkSync, and Arbitrum - Starknet is still the top L2 chain in the Ethereum ecosystem in terms of devs activity
Starknet TVS - Starknet TVS is now $385M
What Oklahoman’s actually think about Bitcoin | Documentary
Heavily discussed Starknet Improvement Proposals
Remove LBTC from Starknet staking-reward eligibility
Starknet 0.14.3 pre-release notes
Why Starknet needs a standard way to find account capabilities
Useful links & articles
@Lyskey - Starknet, the Quantum Moat - Here’s why Starknet is a real bet on quantum security
@EliBenSasson - A few unique choices we made when we designed @Starknet and why I think they'll be the popular and obvious choices in the future - A few reasons why you should build on Starknet
Developer resources
@cavosxyz - If you are building consumer/gaming/social apps on @Starknet, reach out to us and we'll help your onboarding look 10x better - This wallet provider brings a popup-free, gasless, self-custodial UX
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