TL;DR: The Starknet Prover will be open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license The move will boost accessibility to developers, promote collaboration within the community and offer other benefits This announcement follows the open-sourcing of Cairo 1.0, Papyrus Full Node, and Starknet’s new Sequencer Intro Exciting news ahead: Starknet Prover will be…

TL;DR — We are releasing Cairo 1.0-alpha.2, which brings a host of new features to the language It is now possible to implement an ERC20 contract Those new linguistic features will be applicable in the upcoming StarkNet-v0.11.0 version Fresh New Features! Cairo 1.0 is continuing its fast improvement pace. Today’s release introduces, among other things…

TL;DR A new StarkNet sequencer is being developed It is open-source under the Apache 2.0 license It’s first goal is to increase StarkNet’s throughput A Shiny New Sequencer We are happy to announce a new StarkNet Sequencer is in the works. As StarkNet’s tech stack moves towards open-source, following Cairo 1.0 and Papyrus Full…

Technological innovation in blockchain has flourished over the last few years — STARKs, SNARKs, EIP-1559, the Ethereum Merge — are all huge technological achievements. However, UX and UI design have failed to keep up. People still get stuck on 16-word seed-phrases, and getting into DeFi without a centralised intermediary is…

StarkWare or: How I learned to stop worrying and love complexity — STARK proofs (and their practical application by StarkWare) are one of the most exciting leaps in technology since the invention of Bitcoin. Like any technological leap, STARKs are also mind-bendingly complex. This complexity can be a limiting factor for people’s understanding of the technology, and as a result, become a…

Out with the complex keys, in with face ID. A case study on Account Abstraction — The moment people can use familiar methods like face ID to sign crypto transactions, we’ll see a boom in self-custody. Everyone knows that running your own wallet is the original crypto ideal, but it’s intimidating, and has people embracing exchanges instead. This is a case study of how a StarkNet…

Papyrus will be a key component of the decentralized StarkNet infrastructure — TL;DR Papyrus is a Rust implementation of a StarkNet full node It will provide foundations for the new StarkNet Sequencer, which will dramatically enhance StarkNet’s throughput Papyrus will help advance performance and decentralization. Now that StarkNet has achieved excellent usability, these are its major development priorities

Or, as the ancient Egyptians would say, ‘Hieroglyphics just got a whole lot easier’ — TL;DR Cairo 1.0 first release is here! Developers can start writing and testing Cairo 1.0 programs Feature parity with the older version of Cairo will be reached in the coming weeks Support for StarkNet contracts will be added in the upcoming StarkNet Alpha version Background We are excited to announce that the…

Scaling Ethereum with StarkEx: A Layer-2 Solution for Lightning-Fast Transactions and Low Gas Fees — Ethereum, like many other layer-1 blockchain networks, has been long facing scalability issues resulting in low throughput, long transaction times, and unpredictable gas fees. For decentralized applications that rely on the processing of hundreds of millions of transactions, these scalability challenges discourage users from adopting applications built on Ethereum.