Last week in Starknet Issue #23
Stay updated with the latest developments in the Starknet ecosystem
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TLDR:
StarkEX crosses 1 trillion dollars in trading volume
Argent launches Argent Shield - 2FA for Argent X
AVNU crosses 10m dollars in trading volume on Starknet
StarkEX crosses 1 trillion dollars in trading volume
Recently Starkware announced that their permissioned scalability engine StarkEX, recently surpassed the 1 trillion dollar mark in trading volume.
StarkEx is a permissioned tailor-made scaling engine, designed by StarkWare to fit the specific needs of apps. You could track these activities and information on the StarkEX dashboard.
Argent launches Argent Shield - 2FA for Argent X
We recently announced the launch of Argent Shield, a two-factor authentication service for your Argent X wallet.
Argent Shield is an opt-in service with email available for Argent X desktop users. With Argent Shield your funds are protected even if your seed phrase is compromised, by using your email as an extra layer of defense.
Argent Shield is 100% censorship-resistant, non-custodial, and you can disable it instantly with a simple 2FA-approved transaction. Check out the thread below for more info.
AVNU crosses 10m dollars in trading volume on Starknet
A month after launching on mainnet, the AVNU team announced that they had already crossed 10 million dollars in trading volume on Starknet.
This is a great milestone for the team and they’ve got more tricks up their sleeves, this is just the V1 of their protocol.
A proposal for Signing in with Starknet?
The Nethermind team recently submitted a technical proposal attempting to specify an encoding for a ‘sign-in’ data standard to enable a Sign in with Starknet for websites, services, and accounts similar to EIP-4361.
You could take a deeper look into the proposal here.
Recap of Starknet Meetup, Goma
Last week the Starknet Congo team organised a meetup in Congo which taught Congolese developers about Cairo and Starknet.
Catch up on images and highlights from the event in the thread below.
Is this Starknet gaming’s GTA Era?
In this thread @LordSecretive takes a dive into gaming on Starknet and why Starknet stands a chance of being the elite network for on-chain games.
You can now declare Cairo 1 contracts on Madara
Declare V2 has gone live on Madara, this means that you can declare Cairo 1 contracts on Madara!
This opens up new use cases such as being able to deploy @dojostarknet and a lot of other interesting projects straight on Madara.
Nethermind takes charge of Caigo
The Nethermind team recently announced they’ve taken ownership of the Caigo project.
Caigo enables you to get your golang backends and WASM frontends to Starknet easily, with simple abstractions for the Starknet RPC, account management, and common operations on the wallets.
💭 Other things we found Interesting
Hessish created a dashboard to monitor and track the impact of the Argent Xplorer campaign, it includes the number of transactions, active users, the number of new addresses, and so much more. There’s no community quite like Starknet!
💼 Job Board
Nethermind is currently hiring for different roles across the Ethereum and Starknet Ecosystems. If you’re interested in becoming a Cryptography Researcher, Site Reliability Engineer, Senior test (QA) Engineer, or any other role for that matter, then head over to their website to make your applications.
🧱 Awesome Developer’s Resources
Francesco Ceccon will be leading a workshop teaching how to integrate Apibara with Supabase and ChatGPT in the next Starknet workshop
Recap of the round table Oracle discussion with Starkware.
Learn how to contribute to the Orion repository by implementing an operator from scratch.
A set of governance contracts modeled after Compound’s governance by Ekubo.
👀 What to look out for!
Starknet in Paris?
As we draw closer to ETHCC and StarknetCC happening in Paris, Starkware has helped us with a compiled list of events and activities to anticipate!
Starknet Salle De Tempus
The team @themu_xyz recently announced an exclusive opportunity to reward the highest-achieving devs within the Starknet blockchain!
Some of the most talented developers within the ecosystem were selected to attend this event representing the most successful companies and projects on Starknet! Accompanied by some of the most eminent speakers in the space! You do not want to miss out.
Registration for Starknet Hacker House
Registration for the Starknet Hacker House, Palo Alto, Aug 27-30, is now open! Make sure to register if you don’t want to miss out.
Starknet connect Hyderabad
Join talented developers from the Starknet Indian Ecosystem and Graph Advocates, as they explore Cairo and Starknet in the upcoming Starknet Connect Hyderabad on July 8th, 2023 at DevX, Hitec City.
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