#Issue 35: The Multisig for Starknet 🔐

Stay updated with the latest developments in the Starknet ecosystem

gm everyone, 

There’s so much going on in Starknet at the moment, it really feels like the ecosystem has jumped to the next level. Here’s some highlights from the last week or so. 

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TLDR:

1. Argent launched a Multisig wallet for Starknet!

2. Pragma launches on Starknet mainnet

3. Starknet Infra hackathon is here

A secure Multisig for Starknet

If you’re building on Starknet or securing large amounts of capital you need top class security. The new Argent Multisig provides that. It’s tailor-made for the Starknet ecosystem and takes advantage of Starknet’s native account abstraction.

Multisig is written 100% in Cairo 1, audited by Consensys Diligence, and the smart contracts are fully open-source. If you’re looking for more robust security on Starknet, look no further. 

Pragma launches on Starknet mainnet

Pragma, the first provable oracle on Starknet recently announced the launch of their protocol on Starknet mainnet after an in-depth audit by the Nethermind Security team.

If you are interested in leveraging their composable data feeds to build better defi systems then check out their docs.

Starknet Infra Hackathon is Here

Interested in hacking ground-breaking ideas with the Starknet ecosystems finest? Here’s your chance!

The Starkware team is organizing an infra hackathon for innovators, developers and blockchain enthusiasts looking to build on Starknet. It features categories such as Storage proofs by Herodotus, Oracles by Pragma, DeFi with Ekubo, Appchains with Madara, ZkML with Giza and much more. The price pool is $6000!

Everyone loves staking rewards, don’t you?

The Argent community wanted staking, and now they have it! ETH staking for Starknet accounts on Argent Mobile is now available. Now you can earn a yield on your ETH by swapping to wstETH.

It’s easy to do, just 3 steps: 

1. Create a Starknet account on Argent Mobile

2. Tap “Explore” and select “Stake”

3. Swap your ETH for wstETH and start earning staking rewards! 

Paradex crosses 1 billion on total trading volume

Starknet’s first appchain, Paradex, just crossed 1 billion dollars in total trading volume!

Paradex is a perpetual futures exchange on Starknet. It’s good to see people using them.

Kakarot announces completion of its second investment round

Kakarot, a type 2.5 ZkEVM written in Cairo recently announced the completion of its second investment round led by StakeCapital and LongHash VC.

The team explained that the primary objective of this funding round will be to expand the team, and accelerate the development of their Ethereum scaling solution!

Starknet will be migrating it’s testnet to Sepolia

Starknet will be migrating its testnet to Sepolia following the deprecation of Goerli. In the meantime, Starknet will still maintain support for Goerli till the end of 2023 as developers migrate to Sepolia.

Note: Sepolia testnet will have a clean state and will support all Cairo v0, v2.0.0 and all versions higher.

Application for Nethermind Internship is now open!

Are you interested in developing skills in Cairo, Cryptography, Zero-Knowledge Proofs and many more? Then you shouldn’t miss out on the Nethermind Internship opportunity!

As part of Nethermind's Starknet teams, you’ll be contributing to Starknet’s decentralization efforts through a variety of projects; full node client implementation, block explorer and analytics platform, open-source implementation of a Go VM and many more!

💭 Other things we found Interesting

The Starknet ecosystem is growing rapidly, and it can get difficult to track all existing dapps. Check out this dapp infographics by the team that shows all existing dapps on Starknet:

🧱 Awesome Developer’s Resources

1. How STARKs works if you don’t care about FRIs by David Wong

2. Why you should consider running a Starknet Appchain on Madara

3. A comprehensive thread on Kakarot ZkEVM by Starknet Digger

4. Starknet Frontend Integration by WiseMrMusa

5. Why Cairo? By Matteo

👀 What to look out for!

StarknetIndia

The Starknet team will be organizing a conference in India, happening as part of ETHIndia week 2023!

Set for December 5th, you should register to secure a slot as soon as possible!

PS: Application is free:)

London Starknet Meetup

If you are around London, register to join the next Starknet London meetup organized by Nethermind and Argent.

Come code, think and breathe Cairo!

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