Last week in Starknet Issue #17: Time to Xplore

Stay updated with the latest developments in the Starknet ecosystem

gm everyone, wipe the sleep from your eyes and let’s dive into everything that happened in Starknet last week. 

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TLDR:

1. Argent Launches a Starknet Xplorer Campaign

2. Alchemy now provides support for Starknet

3. Starknet releases 2023 roadmap focused on performance and user experience

All this and more in this issue! 🚀

Argent Launches a Starknet Xplorer Campaign

We are excited to announce the launch of our Starknet Xplorer Campaign, looking to distribute 8 NFTs across the next 8 weeks to active Starknet X Argent users.

To partake in this campaign, ensure to download, sign up and fund your Argent wallet here!

For more info, check out the tweet below:

Alchemy now provides support for Starknet

Last week, the leading web3 developer platform, Alchemy, announced they would be providing support for Starknet, helping more developers gain access to APIs and tools for building scalable dApps on Starknet.

They’ve also provided great documentation to get you started with here.

Madara hits an ATH of 100ms block time and 250TPS 🤯

Madara, a blazing-fast Rust-based Starknet sequencer built on Substrate recently achieved a record-breaking block time of 100ms and 250 transactions per second, setting a new pace for on-chain gaming on Starknet.

Starknet 2023 Roadmap: Improved performance and UX

The Starkware team recently released the 2023 roadmap for Starknet which focuses mainly on improving the performance and user experience of the network.

The roadmap details plans such as Regenesis, improved throughput and latency, reduced transaction costs and so many more.

Latest developments from LambdaClass

LambdaClass, one of the most amazing builders on Starknet, gave an update as to adding support for Cairo 1.0 to their existing projects, including improvements to their Stark prover.

ICYMI, the brilliant minds from LambdaClass are responsible for Cairo Rs, Starknet in Rust, and Sierra 2 MLIR. Check out their progress here.

Argent integrates Stark domain for wallets

Starknet ID, recently announced the integration of Stark domains in Argent wallets, enabling you to see your stark domains automatically, and also send NFTs/ERC20s to any other stark domain holder!

AVNU Early adopter’s NFTs

Last week the team at AVNU, announced they would be offering a final round of early adopter’s NFTs on Friday, May 12th, 2023 by 4 pm CET.

They’d be opening up the last 1000 spots, so you should definitely seize the chance to get exclusive access to their private testnet.

Starknet Community Call #41

Starkware Developer Advocates, @gyanlakshimi and @barretodavid took a deep dive into SHARP verifier smart contracts on community call #41.

ICYMI, you can catch up on the recording below.

💭 Other things we found Interesting

@0xAsten built an AI tool, that could help answer questions you might encounter while building with Cairo 1.0 leveraging Langchain and Milvus.

🧱 Awesome developer resources

1. An article from Starkware on exploring use cases of cheap computations, setting the pace for genuinely decentralized blockchain gaming with transparent logic.

2. A new thread from Starkience, that takes you through understanding the secrets of Starknet full nodes.

3. Catch up on all sessions from Basecamp in this thread from David Barreto.

4. Learn to create an ERC721 contract in Cairo 1.0

5. Learn to build an ICO contract on Starknet from our recently published blog post.

👀 What to look out for!

Starknet week in Prague

There’ll be a lot of Starknet-related activities happening during ETHPrague, from a Starknet meetup to a dedicated talk by Avihu Levy from Starkware on Cairo’s advantages in proving and execution.

The event runs from 8th - 11th June 2023. For more information, visit Starknet’s official event website here.

Paris monthly Starknet Meetup

Starkware would be holding the first Starknet meetup in Mexico City on May 27th by 5pm. If you are interested in becoming a STARK Maester, and networking with great minds, here’s your chance!

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