Starknet Ecosystem 🥷🏽

Welcome to The @Starknet Week ⚡️ Your full recap of everything shaping the ecosystem. 🧵

building a crypto app used to mean six months of wallet plumbing. Starkzap collapses that into an afternoon. gasless swaps powered by @avnu_fi, DeFi integrations, staking, all built in. and if you ship something real, Starknet backs you. up to $25K in seed grants, up to $1M in growth grants, and up to $1M in gas rebates. but you have to build first. no PRDs, no slide decks, no grant hunting. ship something great and we'll fuel it. start here: npm install starkzap

strkBTC is coming. Bitcoin with shielded balances and confidential transfers. yield through staking. full DeFi composability on @EkuboProtocol and @avnu_fi. and the Glock verifier will make the BTC bridge trustless, verified directly on Bitcoin. private, productive Bitcoin. only possible on Starknet. only possible because StarkWare spent years building the proving infrastructure to make it work.

Innovation never sleeps, and neither do we! Moving forward, pushing boundaries, and redefining the game.

STRK is down 98% from its all-time high. and the devs on Starknet are shipping the most advanced privacy protocol in crypto, a provable programming language, and a prover that runs on your phone. right now. in this market. that tells you everything about who's here and why.

blake2b on stwo. speed of light. watch the orchard bloom.

building a crypto app used to mean six months of wallet plumbing. Starkzap collapses that into an afternoon. start here: npm install starkzap

builders: Starknet is the best place to ship a privacy-enabled app right now. Cairo for provable logic. Stwo for fast proving. STRK20s for private tokens. Starkzap for one-line integration. @avnu_fi for DeFi composability. and if you ship something real, the ecosystem backs you. grants, gas rebates, up to $2M in support. but we fund products, not pitch decks. build first.

300+ on the waitlist in 48 hours turns out people do want 50x leverage on perp DEX points without running a farming desk

STARK Café is back for ETHCC on March 31! Just a few minutes from the Palais, this is your place to meet, work, recharge, and take a break throughout the day at La Plage du Festival in Cannes. Registration required: first come, first served 👇 luma.com/v31avys0

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STRK20s proof generation works differently from other privacy protocols. there are no custom ZK circuits. instead, the user locally executes a virtual Starknet transaction within a simulated environment anchored to a recent block (within the past few minutes). the Stwo prover then generates a STARK proof attesting to the correctness of that execution. this virtual execution model means the proof verifies the user's signature by calling the account contract's is_valid_signature function (SNIP-6 interface) inside the simulation. that's why every Starknet account type works out of the box: simple accounts, multisig, smart contract wallets, hardware wallets, MPC wallets, social recovery. no separate key pair for authorization. your viewing key gives read access. your existing Starknet account gives spend authority. privacy transactions reuse the same account infrastructure as regular transactions. this is only possible because Cairo is both the language for the proof logic and the smart contract. Stwo proves Cairo execution. the contract runs Cairo. same language, same semantics, same security model.

three sequencers running in rotation. full decentralization of sequencing coming this year. every block proven with STARKs and verified on Ethereum. post-quantum secure by design. the "L2s are centralized" argument has an expiration date. and it's coming up fast.

"most chains will need to rebuild from scratch when quantum computing arrives. Starknet was built on STARKs from day one." @EliBenSasson post-quantum security is our starting point. everyone else will be retrofitting.

Eli built the math. Uri built the company. the StarkWare team shipped a trillion dollars in proven transactions before most L2s had a testnet. now they're shipping privacy at the token level, trustless Bitcoin bridging, and a prover fast enough for your phone. all open source. all in Cairo. the best infrastructure team in crypto is just getting started.

Eli Ben-Sasson was the first person to propose using ZK proofs for both privacy and scalability on blockchains. that was 2013, at a Bitcoin conference in San Jose. he then co-founded Zcash to prove privacy works. then founded StarkWare to prove scalability works. now Starknet has both. privacy and scale. on the same chain. built by the same team that invented the math behind it. that's the kind of pedigree you can't copy with a fork.

StarkWare's track record: → invented STARKs (2018) → co-founded Zcash → launched StarkEx, securing $1.6T+ in trading volume → shipped Starknet, the first ZK rollup with decentralized sequencing → built Cairo, the first provable programming language → shipped Stwo, the fastest STARK prover ever built → published the STRK20s whitepaper with formal proofs all open source. all in production. cope harder.

when this cycle turns, and it will turn, a lot of people will show up and claim they were always bullish on Starknet. they'll change their pfps, write threads, and say they saw it coming. remember who was actually here. the devs building on Cairo when nobody was watching. the community members who kept the channels alive. the teams on @EkuboProtocol, @avnu_fi, @Abordi_Avnu, @EndurFi, and dozens of others who kept shipping when it would have been easier to quit. if we make it, we know exactly who made it happen. and it's the people reading this right now.