Papyrus, Cairo Wishlist, Starknet x Braavos Hardware Signer and much more

Hi 👋 Stark Frens,

In the second edition of the StarkNet Edu news letter of 2023, there are a lot of exciting news and things happening. Papyrus, A Rust implementation of a StarkNet full node, which will be a key component of the decentralized StarkNet infrastructure. Cairo Wishlist is out, now builders can submit their future new features on Cairo 1.0 and on wards. Starknet and Braavos work together to revolutionise crypto signing and much more.

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Papyrus: An Open-Source StarkNet Full Node.

• 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 decentralisation. Now that StarkNet has achieved excellent usability, these are its major development priorities

Cairo Wishlist

🐺 Builders, we would love your valuable input in the future of the Cairo programming language including:

• Add new features in Cairo

• Find and resolve potential bugs

• Submit your feedback and get your voice heard

• Improve quality of life as StarkNet Dev

StarkNet X Braavos Hardware Signer

A case study on how Braavos is using StarkNet Account Abstraction in a far more intuitive way using your hardware wallet.

The Hardware Signer consists of two main parts:

• The secure sub-system in users’ mobile device

• The account smart contract that can run arbitrary logic (a.k.a Account Abstraction)

STARK @ Home 29: The Future of Blockchain Property Rights via Account Abstraction

In Stark @Home 29,

Eli Ben-Sasson

(Co-founder of Starkware), Yoav Weiss (Security Fellow at the Ethereum Foundation), Julien Niset (Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Argent) and Tom Brand (StarkNet Product Lead at StarkWare) discussing about AA and its potentials.

StarkNet Community Call #30 | Introducing StarkNet Governance

In this community call, Sylve Chevet from Briq, Deven Mathews from Nethermind, and Manor Bareli from StarkWare, talking about StarkNet Governance.

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Blog Posts:

• A First Look at Cairo 1.0: A Safer, Stronger & Simpler Provable Programming Language

• Introducing 0xMonaco: The battle of Titans

• On Medium, Validity Rollup, and Digital Physics - guiltygyoza

• Progressive decentralization: a high-level framework - a16z crypto

• How Proof of Stake Ethereum Works - by Patrick McCorry (substack.com)

• Verifiable AES: encryption using zero-knowledge proofs

• Multi-Precision Fast Modular Multiplication

• Journey with Geregè: IBC between Cosmos Hub and L2 ZK-Rollups

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Twitter Threads:

• Play with Cairo

• Account abstraction: New version of ERC-4337 released!

• Felucca, the first package manager for Cairo

• Using a session keys on @briqNFT

• Summary of creative projects developing in StarkNet Ecosystem

• Ecommerce with NFT on L2

• Blockchain Basics: Bridges

• Verifying merkle multi proofs

• Simplified representation of L3 efficiency.

• StarknetID cool trick to erase all metadata from nodes of a branch in a domain’s tree

• ArgentX Wallet Developer features (Declare and Deployment)

• Cairo Tips #2

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Upcoming Events

• Jan 19th: StarkNet Brussels Meetup #3

• Jan 25th: Basecamp cohort 2, Session 4 - Peering into the future

• Feb 1st: StarkNet NYC Meetup

• Feb 5-6th: StarkWare Sessions (Tel-Aviv)

• Feb 16th: Starknet Melbourne Meetup #2 

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Learning Resources

• Want to start building? Use the StarkNet Basecamp

• Cairo docs

• StarkNet docs

• StarkNet Edu Blog

• StarkWare’s Blog

• StarkWare’s YouTube channel

• StarkNet’s Workshops

• OnlyDust’s Starklings

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