Issue #28: Tick tock upgrade o’clock 🕜
Stay updated with the latest developments in the Starknet ecosystem
gm, hope you had an amazing weekend. This week we’ve got games, grants and upgrades to tell you about. So read on to discover what's really going down in the Starknet ecosystem.
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TLDR:
Starknet is upgrading and some old accounts need to as well
Introducing Shoshin - asynchronous strategy on Starknet
Starknet Summit is a couple weeks away!
Time to upgrade your old Starknet accounts!
Starknet is upgrading and if you’ve got some old accounts lying around, you might want to upgrade them so as not to lose your assets before the 21st of August, 2023.
It’s important to note that more than 95% of existing Argent accounts and mobile users are not affected by this, so do not fret, but a quick check to be sure wouldn’t hurt.
Introducing Shoshin: the first asynchronous strategy game on Starknet
An asynchronous strategy game is a type of video game where players take their turns at different times rather than in real-time. Shoshin is the first playable TPS-agnostic asynchronous strategy game for Starknet.
Shoshin is set to bring a never-before-seen online gaming experience, offering not only thrilling actions but delving into the creation of autonomous agents within autonomous worlds on on-chain realities. Check out their video to learn more:
Announcing the Autonomous Worlds with Dojo grants program
Starkware and the Starknet Foundation have provided $30K+ in funding to empower you to turn your ideas into reality on DOJO. If you are looking to build an Autonomous World on Starknet with Dojo, then look no further.
Dojo is a provable game engine and toolchain for building on-chain games and autonomous worlds with Cairo 1.0.
Starknet Feeder Gateway will be deprecated soon
The Starknet feeder gateway serves as a gateway for querying the centralized sequencer on the state of Starknet. It was meant to be used as a temporary solution until full nodes that support Starknet’s JSON-RPC mature and are able to meet the needs of the community.
By the end of August, Starknet will have three different full-node implementations in production (Pathfinder, Juno, and Papyrus). Consequently, it is time to deprecate the feeder gateway and migrate to RPC providers. It’s great to see more decentralization at the sequencer level on Starknet.
Cairo meetup in Seoul was a huge success
The inaugural Cairo meetup in Seoul (13th August) was a resounding success. And now, the team at Starknet Asia is organizing another!
The Cairo meetup in Seoul is targeted at all Cairo developers, old and new! It’s a chance to come together and dive deep into the new Cairo syntax. So if you’re located or passing by Seoul on the 20th August, be there.
LambdaClass will be launching a 3 months online internship program
Are you interested in learning to tackle difficult core engineering problems? Then the team at LambaClass has an amazing offer for you.
Federico recently announced they will be launching a 3-month online internship program for developers looking to break into core protocol engineering. Check the thread below for more info!
💭 Other things we found Interesting
Jiraiya and co from Starknet Africa are working on a minimal implementation for broadcasting messages to Starknet via SMS.
Through an integration with M-PESA, the phone-based money transfer service, the mobile app will allow end users to send and receive value on Starknet rails via text message! Pretty cool if you ask me.
💼 Job Board
Starknet Foundation
The Foundation is hiring! If you're interested in working on the areas below, send an email to builders@starknet.org
Developer Advocacy
Ecosystem growth
Developer partnerships
Product and research
Brand, comms, and events
Business development
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Founder of Unframed - (Remote, Europe)
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🧱 Awesome Developer’s Resources
A deep dive into Volition on Starknet.
Implementing Tendermint for Starknet by Ilia Volokh
A projectile physics implementation in Dojo by Whatthedev.eth
A deep dive into Cairo memory model by Cyndie Kamau
👀 What to look out for!
Starknet summit
The Starknet party wagon will be moving to San Francisco for Starknet Summit, featuring workshops, basecamps, hacker houses and so many more, it’s kicking off 31st August, 2023.
The list of amazing speakers has already been unveiled, register to ensure you don’t miss out on the party!
Round 2 of the Starknet Tokyo meetup
StarknetJapan will be organizing another Starknet meetup in Tokyo on August 27th, 2023. If you’re anywhere around Japan, register so you don’t miss out!
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