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Starknet monthly recap #9: March
All you need to know about Starknet in March
Starknet OG
March 31, 2024
Starknet monthly recap #9: March
Welcome to the 9th edition of my monthly recap, where I bring you the most important updates and developments from the Starknet ecosystem.
📣 Important news of the month
🔹 EIP4844 Integration: A Leap Towards Cost Efficiency
Blobs have finally arrived, bringing with them a drastic reduction of gas fees for users. Notably, users on Starknet now enjoy a fee reduction of over 90%!
gm blobs.
happy swapping
— Starknet 🦇🔊 (@Starknet)
2:06 PM • Mar 13, 2024
This is just the beginning of StarkWare’s commitment to making Starknet more accessible to everyone; 4 other initiatives will be put in place to further reduce these fees.
🔹 Roadmap 2024
Speaking of fee reduction plans, StarkWare’s vision for 2024 is crystal clear: destroy gas fees for users and significantly increase throughput. This will be achieved through two major developments: Volition and Transaction Parallelization.
Post-Dencun, Starknet fees dropped – and that was just the beginning 🌟
The community asked for reduced fees, better performance, and extended upgrade periods.
The Starknet roadmap for 2024 delivers. 🫡Get ready for the next Starknet version updates aimed at making our… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Starknet 🦇🔊 (@Starknet)
1:53 PM • Mar 20, 2024
🔹 The Faster Prover in the market is coming
StarkWare has introduced its next-generation prover, Stwo, allowing for significant optimizations, specifically in proving speed. As a result, transactions will be faster and more cost-effective under this new prover. Stwo is expected to replace the current Stone prover when it's ready, likely around the end of this year or the beginning of 2025 👇
This is Stwo-good-to-be-true!
We are proud to announce: Stwo, our next-gen Circle-STARK-based prover✨
Stwo will be built based on the recent mathematical advancement of Circle-STARKs to create super efficient and fast proofs. Yep, that means super scaling✨
This trail-blazing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— StarkWare (@StarkWareLtd)
11:34 PM • Feb 29, 2024
🔹 The Premature Death of Goerli
The Ethereum Goerli test network has now finished, implying that Goerli on Starknet has entered a non-maintenance phase. Developers still using this test network are strongly advised to migrate to Sepolia as soon as possible.
For all devs and testnet users, here is an important notice! 🚨
The Goerli testnet is currently in a non-maintenance mode, due to the premature death of Ethereum Goerli.
As suggested before, please migrate to Sepolia ASAP!
If you need some testnet ETH on Sepolia 👇
— Starknet 🦇🔊 (@Starknet)
4:40 PM • Mar 25, 2024
📢 What About the Ecosystem?
🔹 The Foundation Accelerates
The Foundation has announced the launch of its gaming committee. The goal of this committee is to analyze, strategize, and recommend programs to expand Starknet's gaming ecosystem. To do so, the committee will be given a budget of 50M STRK.
The Starknet Foundation is excited to announce the Gaming Committee.
Chaired by six gaming experts, the Committee's mandate is to analyze, strategize, and recommend programs to expand Starknet's gaming ecosystem.
Read more: 👇starknet.io/en/content/gam…
— Starknet 🦇🔊 (@Starknet)
3:01 PM • Mar 11, 2024
In addition to this committee, note that the DeFi committee launched its first on-chain campaign a few weeks ago. This campaign aims to distribute 40M STRK over six months to network users. The current wave, which is the third one, rewards Liquidity Providers of Money Markets and AMM. For an overview of the current APRs for this campaign, check out this great dashboard 👇️
Welcome to STRKFarm! Your go-to hub for discovering top $STRK Treasure pots this DeFi spring on @Starknet.
Easily track $STRK yields across major DEXs and Lending protocols all in one place. Join us on this evolving journey. #DeFi
Link 👇
— STRKFarm.xyz ✨🐺💎 (@strkfarm)
1:56 PM • Mar 19, 2024
Lastly, the Foundation has announced that it is addressing the distribution problems of Provision towards three sub-categories: Non-VeVe StarkEx users identified as VeVe users, VeVe users, and Pooled stakers. The Foundation is working to allow these groups to claim their STRK in April.
Dear Starknet community,
We know some of you have been waiting for an update on the Provisions distribution status of three sub-categories that were eligible for Starknet Provisions but had trouble claiming. These are:
1. Non-VeVe StarkEx users who were identified as VeVe users… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Starknet Foundation (@StarknetFndn)
10:19 AM • Mar 20, 2024
🔹 Paymaster
AVNU has launched its new feature: Paymaster, which allows users to pay their gas fees in USDC and USDT, along with ETH and STRK! Although it's currently only accessible to their top 5k users, it will soon be available to all users 👇️
GM ✨
We just shipped a new insane experimental feature. Only accessible by our top 5’000 all-time leaderboard, by connecting their wallet.
Give it a try. More infos coming soon.
— AVNU (@avnu_fi)
11:25 AM • Mar 21, 2024
🔹 ZEND airdrop
The month of March saw the launch of the zkLend token: ZEND! Notably, if you have used this money market, you are probably eligible for the following airdrop 👇️
🚀Q: WEN $ZEND AIRDROP?
👉 A: Check your eligibility here now: medium.com/zklend/the-zen…
— zkLend (@zkLend)
2:14 PM • Mar 11, 2024
🔹 Ekubo's Progress
Ekubo recently had its AMM audited by Nethermind and published the audit results. The project also announced it's developing a new feature, DCA (Dollar Cost Average), which will be launched very soon 👇️
Happy Friday, everyone!
We've been quiet because we're hard at work on shipping TWAMM. We missed our mid-March launch goal, but here's a sneak peek at the UI
The contracts are ready and audited. The remainder of the work is on the supporting infrastructure.
🔜
— Ekubo (@EkuboProtocol)
10:28 PM • Mar 29, 2024
🔹 New Projects on Mainnet and Testnet
This month, one new project was launched on Mainnet:
Bountive, a no-loss prize savings protocol
Regarding testnet:
Starkarcade, a new on-chain casino, is preparing for its testnet launch
Realms, the gaming hub, launched the alpha of its L3
🔹 New Projects Alert:
Gojo: a new Perp DEX on Starknet
Vesu: a 100% permissionless Money Market (even for pool creation)
Cairoaudit: a new company auditing Cairo contracts
Goku Hub: the first DeFi hub and the first announced project from the Kakarot zkEVM ecosystem
📰 Some of the Best Content of the Month
🔹 Overview of the Starknet ecosystem
If you're seeking an overview of the entire Starknet ecosystem, here is a categorized map of all projects being built on Starknet, updated on March 4th 👇️
The Starknet ecosystem continues to grow, and with the $STRK now live, I anticipate a Cambrian explosion of dApps this year 😏
To seize all opportunities, you first need an overview of the entire ecosystem.
Below is a map of all the projects building on @Starknet 🧵👇
— Starknet_Digger 🦇🔊 (@Starknet_OG)
10:14 AM • Mar 5, 2024
🔹 Kakarot Deep Dive
Kakarot is one of the most ambitious projects in the Starknet ecosystem. As it prepares for its public testnet release, now is a great time to delve further into the project and stay updated 👇️
Starknet Ecosystem Deep Dive #19.
Introducing @KakarotZkEvm, a zkEVM built on top of @Starknet.
Why launch another zkEVM in Layer 2? Let's dive deep to discover 🧵👇🏾
— Starknet Africa 🌍 (@StarkNetAfrica)
12:40 PM • Mar 6, 2024
🔹 Starknet and Opportunity
Starknet presents a wealth of opportunities for users. Before taking advantage of them, it's essential to first understand Starknet and the advantages it offers. Here is a great video explaining this, and presenting all current opportunities within its ecosystem 👇️
None of the content of this newsletter is financial advice. Always do your own research.
Thank you for reading, and see you in April for the next monthly recap. ⏳
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