TL;DR

• Alpha is live on Mainnet
• It supports general computation and composability
• Fast-growing community, developing tooling, and applications
• Additional features to be rolled out on an ongoing basis in the coming weeks
• Disclaimer: this is an Alpha version (read the fine print below)

Introduction

StarkNet Alpha is launching today on Ethereum Mainnet!

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Exciting Times Ahead

Alpha 4 was released today on Goerli. This version is the Mainnet release candidate and, if everything goes according to plan, will be deployed on Mainnet by the month’s end.

Alpha 4 follows the features-packed release of Alpha 3, which included, among other things, improvements to the Cairo compilation times…

TL;DR

• StarkNet Alpha is launching on Mainnet Ethereum by November
• The time to build on StarkNet is now

A Brief History

We announced our vision for StarkNet at the beginning of the year: to bring massive scalability to Ethereum while preserving L1 security, permissionless interactions, and decentralization.
We released StarkNet Alpha on a public…

TL;DR

• StarkNet now supports composability, the main feature defining StarkNet’s Constellations phase.
• We are releasing a testing framework for StarkNet — developers can now test their contracts locally and effectively.
• This release includes several notable performance improvements, such as support for Merkle-Patricia Tries and a builtin for bitwise operations.
• Ecosystem front:

1. …

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• Transferring funds between sidechains and L2s is a growing need
• Current methods: via L1 (Ethereum) — slow, expensive, yet trustless; or via App (or LP) — requires trust, yet fast and inexpensive
• We propose a trustless, secure and inexpensive sidechain-to-StarkEx bridge, which relies on Ethereum’s security
• By extending such a…

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• AMMs on L2 face a liquidity fragmentation problem
• dAMM, a cross-L2 AMM that shares liquidity across layers, solves this
• dAMM enables ZK-based L2s (e.g., DeversiFi, Loopring …) to asynchronously share liquidity — exposing LPs to more trades
• dAMM enables LPs to serve L1 AMM such as Uniswap while partaking in…

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• StarkEx 3.0 is live on Mainnet
• Main features: L1 Vaults & SHARP (SHARed Prover)
• L1 Vaults: Ethereum addresses (specifically, smart contracts) can now trade with StarkEx’s users by owning an L1 Vault — enabling DeFi Pooling & dAMM (formerly Caspian)
• A new batch-long-flash-loan capability improves the Operator’s capital efficiency in…

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StarkNet Alpha 1 has two new features:

• L1<>L2 interaction
• On-chain data

Introduction

At the beginning of the year, we announced that StarkWare is building StarkNet, a permissionless decentralized STARK-based ZK-Rollup¹ operating as an L2 network over Ethereum. …