On tech, devEx and exciting ideas
Summer time is over, and STARK winter is fast approaching
Dear developer,
Thank you so much for your support to the Starknet ecosystem. With summer finally over, the Starknet community is looking forward to welcoming an exciting host of innovations. Here are a few …
tl;dr
For students: Basecamp X, Ambassadors Program
For builders: Network improvements, Cairo chatbot, Changes to Madara
In other news: India roadshow, Musings on Bitcoin, Upcoming events
For Students
The Starknet Foundation’s master teachers, David Barreto and Robert Kodra are organizing another batch of the much loved Starknet Basecamp. With a small commitment of 3-5 hours a week over 5 weeks - developers can expect to learn the basics of rollup architecture, ZK proofs and get started with coding in Cairo.
Medium: Online
Language: English
Start Date: August 15
Support: Live Q&A, discussion board
To register, please click here.
At the same time, the Foundation is now also supporting regional educational initiatives by trained developers and educators worldwide. In the coming months, you might even find a Cairo workshop or Starknet basecamp happening in your town, in your language, and per your convenience.
To learn more about these initiatives, and to stay in touch, kindly refer to the Starknet Ambassadors Program.For Builders
If you’re like most coders - you’ve probably wondered why there isn’t an AI chatbot to help code Cairo. Well fret not - now there is (and it’s open source) ! Give it a spin, over here.
At the same time, Starknet’s hybrid client framework - Madara - recently came out with an exciting announcement. They have been working with Kasar Labs to merge Kasar’s client implementation - Deoxys - with the Madara stack. Implications …
Substrate is now gone
MPTs have been replaced with Bonsai
The codebase has been optimized for performance
The Madara team claims “these changes have unlocked up to 5x more efficient storage and slashed execution overhead”.
Finally, Software Mansion recently announced the launch of Scarb 2.7.0 - a corresponding package manager for Cairo 2.7.0 that introduces procedural macros to the programming language.
This is coming at the heels of the much anticipated release of Starknet 0.13.2 - which will introduce “Applicative Recursion“ to the Shared Prover (SHARP) along with Block Packing. In addition, 0.13.2 is expected to revive optimistic parallelization.
To learn more about the what, why and when of Starknet 0.13.2 - kindly refer to this page.
In Other News
Just a list of exciting things that didn’t quite fit above
The Science of Blockchain Week is taking place in New York from Aug 07 - 09. Register here
The Starknet India Roadshow will pass through 8 cities in India through the month of August, showcasing new projects
It’s now possible to engage with Starknet smart contracts through the familiar UX of Twitter (X). Check out Slinks.
Many in the ecosystem have been musing about how STARKs could be used to bring scalable computation to the Bitcoin network. What do you think ?
For events related to the Starknet Foundation, please check this luma calendar and follow the corresponding X account in the future.
Summary
So now that you know what’s cooking, go ahead and share your thoughts via a response to this newsletter, or on the community forums mentioned above. If you are able to, try and catch up with other Starknet community members at the many upcoming Web3 events around the world.
And as always - stay safe, stay happy and verify don’t trust!