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Last week in Starknet Issue 6: StarkWare Sessions recapped!

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Last week in Starknet Issue 6: StarkWare Sessions recapped!

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Last week in Starknet Issue 6: StarkWare Sessions recapped!

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gm everyone, and welcome to Last week in Starknet. Each week, we summarise the key events in the Starknet ecosystem and share interesting developer resources and guides, exciting dapp updates, events and Twitter Spaces you can’t miss, and so much more!

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TLDR:

  1. Missed out on StarkWare Sessions? We give you our recap!

  2. Chainlink is coming to Starknet

  3. Argent announces not one, not two, not three, but four products for Starknet

All this and so much more. Now let's get into it! 🚀

🤔 What’s StarkWare Sessions?

If you’ve spent any time on Twitter recently, you would have noticed that pretty much everyone has been talking about StarkWare Sessions. It was one of the most anticipated crypto events of the year, even if the year has only just started! 

Expectations were high as some of the best minds in crypto came together to present, discuss and share ideas at the cutting edge of our industry. But it did not disappoint. Instead, it left us even more bullish about the Starknet ecosystem as it’s evident that everyone’s thinking very long term in building a public good vs the mercenary approach of many L1s. 

Our co-founders and many of our team attended StarkWare Sessions, and here are our takeaways…

📖 Open Source is the wei 

Every week, it’s becoming increasingly known that the Starknet community embraces open-source code, with many teams making announcements focusing on this crucial principle. 

StarkWare announced that they’ll be open-sourcing the Starknet Prover, which is a massive leap toward decentralization. This follows the previous open-sourcing announcements for Cairo 1.0, Papyrus, and Starknet’s new sequencer. 

StarkWare’s continued efforts in open-sourcing its tech stack is significant as it allows the community to maintain and develop the network independently and therefore provides the most genuine path to build Starknet as a decentralized public good.

Twitter avatar for @StarkWareLtd
StarkWare @StarkWareLtd
Open-Sourcing the Starknet Prover. Entire #Starknet stack is now announced to be open-sourced! 🫡 starkware.medium.com/open-sourcing-…
starkware.medium.comOpen-Sourcing the Starknet ProverEntire Starknet stack is now announced to be open-sourced!
11:38 AM ∙ Feb 5, 2023
1,116Likes309Retweets

🎉 Chainlink is coming to Starknet!

StarkWare has announced that they have a developer partnership with Chainlink Labs. This is a major milestone for the ecosystem, as this will bring reliable data feeds on Starknet, which will help Starknet reach its potential.

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StarkWare @StarkWareLtd
As part of this partnership, Starknet will be part of @chainlink’s SCALE program, aiming to enhance ecosystem growth and boost the adoption of Starknet. This will equip Starknet developers with low-cost, reliable oracle services.
blog.chain.linkIntroducing the Chainlink SCALE Program | Chainlink BlogChainlink SCALE is a Chainlink Economics 2.0 program centered around sustainably accelerating the growth of the blockchain and layer-2 ecosystems.
3:08 PM ∙ Feb 6, 2023
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🚀 Visa is bullish on Account Abstraction

The head of crypto at Visa, Cuy Sheffield, chatted with David Engel of StarkWare about how Visa fell down the Account Abstraction rabbit hole. This is a continuation of Visa’s interest in Starknet after the release of their paper on auto payments for wallets. 

Account Abstraction could transform how payments work. Watch this space. 

Some of the leading teams in web2 and web3 are excited about what Account Abstraction can enable. With Starknet being one of the only networks to support it natively, you can see why teams are flocking to the network to explore what’s possible! 

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Starknet-Ecosystem.com ✨ @StarkNetEco
. @cuysheffield and @Visa have fell into the rabbit hole of Account Abstraction! This is huge!
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12:37 PM ∙ Feb 5, 2023
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Here are some notes about the chat. 


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🔨 Find out what we’ve been building!

Our CEO, Itamar, presented Argent X and revealed some products we’ve been building behind the scenes. We announced 4 new products: web wallet, 2FA, Multisig, and Starknet coming to mobile.

Web wallet takes advantage of Account Abstraction to help make user onboarding easier by creating a wallet with just an email address. No apps, no extensions, and no friction!  

2FA is part of a wider security improvement for Argent X. With 2FA, even if someone has access to your account, they need to authenticate with your email to transact. 

Multisig on Argent X will be the first on a network with native account abstraction. It’s been designed to help DAOs, teams, and builders manage their treasuries on Starknet. 

Finally, Starknet on mobile means that you can create a wallet and interact with the ecosystem using the mobile wallet. 

You can watch our full presentation here:

All these exciting product updates will be coming soon. Keep an eye on our socials!

📈 Learn about Starknet’s mission!

We couldn’t have recapped StarkWare Sessions without including this incredible talk from Eli Ben-Sasson on the mission of Starknet and why STARKs are the end game for blockchain scalability. 

If there’s ever a talk to listen to, it’s this. Share it with your friends and watch them become STARK-pilled afterwards. 

If you couldn’t attend StarkWare Sessions, there’s no need to feel the Fomo, as all recordings are on StarkWare’s youtube channel!

🧱 Awesome Developer’s Resources

  1. Eni from Nethermind created a repository template you can use if you want to get started with Cairo 1.0.

  1. A deep dive into Cairo 1.0 by Tarrence Van As from Cartridge.

  1. Learn how to write and deploy your first NFT on Starknet. 

💭 Things we found Interesting

Fresh Pizza shared an interesting use case for Account abstraction and how lending protocols could utilize it to pay gas fees for their liquidators.

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FreshPizza @freshPizzaDev
Got some inspiration at TLV on how lending protocols like @nostrafinance, @StarkDefi or @xBankFinance could make use of AA on Starknet to pay the gas fees for their liquidators, thus increasing the speed at which underwater accounts could be liquidated.
link.medium.comGetting creative with Account Abstraction on StarknetIf you’ve been building on Starknet or some other validity rollup, then you have likely been exposed to a lot of talk around the concept…
1:21 PM ∙ Feb 9, 2023
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👀 What to look out for!

This week, we’re co-hosting their first Starknet London meetup with the great minds from Nethermind and Starknet. At the time of writing, over 200 people have registered, meaning this could be the largest Starknet meetup. There will be a panel, an opportunity to network, and free pizza and drinks. 

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Argent @argentHQ
already feeling the StarkWare Sessions blues? we've got you covered (if you're UK/ London based) join us next Monday with @StarkWareLtd and @nethermindeth for our first Starknet meetup!
9:57 AM ∙ Feb 8, 2023
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