Last week in Starknet Issue #20: Starknet Summer!

Stay updated with the latest developments in the Starknet ecosystem

gm everyone, It’s been a while! Wipe the sleep from your eyes, grab a cup of coffee, and let’s dive into everything that happened in Starknet last week. 

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TLDR:

1. Starknet v0.12 will be hitting mainnet by summer

2. Announcing Flex, the pioneering dynamic NFT marketplace for Starknet

3. Starknet Summit 2023 is coming soon!

Starknet v0.12 hitting mainnet by summer

Starknet v0.12 mainnet launch, also known as “Quantum Leap”, is expected to arrive this summer. 

Built by a collaboration of the amazing Engineering team from Starkware and LambdaClass, this upgrade is expected to mark a new era in increased throughput and reduced latency as we get to see a rewrite of the sequencer in Rust and the introduction of Volition for Data Availability.

Flex, the pioneering dynamic NFT marketplace on Starknet

With the recent announcement from Mint Square that they are ceasing operations, the NFT marketplace sector on Starknet took a hit, but thanks to the amazing team at RYG Labs, we might be seeing a new and better NFT marketplace sooner than you think.

The Flex team recently announced they would be pioneering a dynamic NFT marketplace on Starknet, Flex intends to build an immersive web3 experience like never before.

Starknet Summit 23 speaker line-up revealed

Starkware recently revealed the speaker line-up for the highly anticipated Starknet Summit 23, featuring OGs like Eli-Ben Sasson, Shafi Goldwasser, Dan Boneh, Noam Nissan and so many more.

The second batch of tickets have just been released, so make sure you get one before they sell out! 

Play a Preview of Loot Survivor

Loot Survivor, a fully on-chain game where you play to die, is now running on Starknet’s testnet!

To play, download an Argent X wallet, get some goerli ETH, and visit here to get started.

The Briq factory is Live

Last week, the Briq team announced the release of the briq factory, this will allow anyone to buy, build and mint briqs. Briq factory will unleash a new era of creativity on briq and allow anyone to build their own NFTs!

For context, briqs are cubic ERC-1155 compliant tokens on @Starknet, allowing you to build NFTs called sets. If you disassemble your set, you get your briqs back and you can build something new! To get started using the Briq factory, check their thread.

Argent X Briq Xplorer Campaign

Last week we partnered with Briq as part of our Argent Xplorer campaign. The qualification requirements are simple: you need to build and mint a briq set on Starknet Mainnet between 6 June and 13 June 2023 at 23:59 UTC to qualify for the Xplorer NFT.

For context, the Argent Xplorer Campaign began a few weeks ago, we are distributing 8 NFTs across 8 weeks to active Starknet X Argent users. If you’re still yet to join the campaign, download and fund your Argent wallet here to get started.

CafeCosmos 0.3 will be built using Dojo

The team at CafeCosmos, a fully on-chain space cafe recently announced they will be building CafeCosmos v0.3 on Starknet using Dojo and Cairo 1.0, to allow for a future where their rigorous token designs and precise systems engineering will be reusable as submodules for games at large.

Cairo 1 workshop at EthPrague

Amongst the many amazing sessions held at EthPrague, we had giga-chad Eni from Nethermind give a Cairo zero to hero workshop, introducing newbies to developing Starknet contracts with the recently released Cairo 1. Keep your eyes out for a recap ICYMI.

An updated Dashboard for Morphine

The team at Morphine recently announced an update to their dashboard which included two major updates that will help you to monitor Starknet activity.

Amongst these updates was adding ZkLend and Carmine Options to the Starknet APY tracking and enabling you to deposit directly into these protocols from your Morphine dashboard. Check out more information in the thread.

💭 Other things we found Interesting

PiaPark from Herodotus, recently created a proof of concept of NFT mirroring using Herodotus storage proofs. Check out the demo and repo.

🧱 Awesome Developer’s Resources

1. Cambrian explosion of cryptographic proofs by Starkware.

2. Become a Better Cairo developer with Sierra (Part 3) - by Eni

3. Account Abstraction in practice with Darlington - Starknet workshop

4. Starknet Community Call #45 Dynamic layouts: faster, cheaper proving

👀 What to look out for!

Starknet.CC Paris

Application for the Starknet Hacker House at StarknetCC is out! Get ready for 5 days of hacking in the center of Paris with epic vibes, leading all the way to the StarknetCC conference!

Apply to stay & hack with this form: https://bit.ly/hhformstarknet

Zk night in Saigon

If you’re anywhere around Saigon, Vietnam, you are invited to #ZKNightInSaigon on June 16th!

Join in to explore the exciting world of zk rollup networks and Starknet projects.

Cairo 1 workshop in Buenos Aires

There will be a Cairo 1 workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Wednesday, 14th June 2023.

BuidlVietnam2023

Starkware recently announced they’d be sponsoring the upcoming #BuidlVietnam2023 alongside Nethermind. Make sure you register so you don’t miss out on the amazing sessions and activities from June 16-17th 2023!

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