TL;DR: StarkWare and Herodotus have created a way to prove Ethereum blocks all the way back to genesis This is accomplished using the power of cryptographic proofs and block hashes It achieves the goals of EIP-2935 — a way to access historical block hashes older than 256 blocks in a chain-native…

The building blocks for Starknet developers While Starknet is a Layer 2 network built over Ethereum, it is different from other Layer 2s built on the model of the Ethereum virtual machine (EVM), and so it has many of its own developer tools to support the community of developers that are building on Starknet. While originally…

TL;DR StarkWare is progressing towards decentralization in two threads: planning and implementation. A clear roadmap lies ahead for the steps required to ensure the transition of the Starknet protocol to a decentralized proof-of-stake protocol. Intro Starknet enjoys the security and decentralization provided by Ethereum by sending STARK proofs of its state transitions…

Starknet is taking the emerging Autonomous Worlds space by storm — TL;DR Starknet is a frontier in the evolving space of onchain gaming and autonomous worlds, channeling the power of Dojo engine and Madara to enable onchain gaming. Using Starknet’s high throughput and Cairo, a world of possibilities is emerging for devs and users who want to utilize asset ownership and limitless…

Explore the Full Security Analysis of STARKs — TL;DR Non-interactive STARKs start as Interactive Oracle Proofs (IOPs) which are compiled to non-interactive ones in the random oracle model. This post explains the recent update to the ethSTARK documentation, which gives a full and concrete analysis of the security of the ethSTARK protocol in the random oracle model. STARK Security Explained A STARK…

Deciphering Cairo VM, CASM, Cairo Zero, Cairo, and Sierra. Intro In order to unlock secure and decentralized scaling for Ethereum, Validity Rollups make the verification of batches of transactions vastly more efficient than their naive re-execution. Specialized nodes (called Sequencers) on Layer 2 (L2) bundle transactions into new L2 blocks, while…

StarkWare is Open-Sourcing the STARK Prover, now named Stone, under Apache 2.0. — A code review session will be done on August 31st during Starknet Summit. On this date, the code of the Stone prover will be available for the community TL;DR As announced in February 2023, we are about to open-source StarkWare’s STARK Prover, now named Stone (STARK one), under Apache 2.0 license. …

A gentle hand-holding guide for your first steps using Starknet — Background When I tried to get started using Starknet, I found it difficult to know exactly what to do. While I’ve heard a lot about the wonders of Starknet and how it can save me money in fees while providing security and trustlessness, I’m a blockchain newbie. In my quest to…

TL;DR Starknet presents: Volition! Volition will allow developers to regulate data availability on Ethereum (L1) or on Starknet (L2). Reducing L1 onchain data can radically reduce costs. Flexibility in data availability modes will allow, once again, greater freedom for Starknet developers and users, letting them choose the most suitable security level…