Starknet Edu Newsletter #5
If you notice something different is because we have moved to Revue, Twitter's newsletter platform. Another important change is that we want to use the newsletter as a tool to highlight educational content created by the StarkNet community.
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StarkNet Africa Cairo Online Class
This free 8-week course is being organized by Darlington (@0xdarlington), Blessing (@Theblessingemah) and Paul (@paulemmanuelng) and it's targeted at African developers who are interested in building on StarkNet. If you want to take part in the course you better hurry and register because the first session starts this Sunday, October 30th.
WTF is Account Abstraction
Julien Niset (@jniset) from Argent show us some of the benefits that Account Abstraction (AA) brings to users in the form of multicall transactions, session keys for gaming, social recovery, enhanced security and much more. AA might seem like a footnote compared to all the other enhancements that StarkNet brings, but it is a big step forward in usability (UX). A must if we really want to bring web3 to the masses.
Scaling the UX and security of crypto by 10X
Events on StarkNet
The folks at Empiric Network explain how events are defined and used in Cairo smart contracts, and how indexers allow us to mimic "callbacks" to display data returned from StarkNet as a result of invoking a transaction.
Midway through, the article turns into a tutorial showing how to use the GraphQL interface of the StarkNet Indexer to query events coming from Empiric's Oracle to learn how their price feeds are constructed.
Running a StarkNet Indexer
Follow along with Ben Goebel (@DrSpacemn) to learn why indexers are an important piece of the StarkNet tech stack and how you can create your very own parsing and formatting events emitted by your smart contracts using Go and SQLite.
StarkNet Community Call #25
Henri Lieutaud (@henrlihenrli), StarkWare’s Dev Advocate Lead, interviews two members of StarkWare’s Product team, Ohad Barta (@OhadBarta) and Tom Brand (@bbrandtom).
Ohad focuses on why Regenesis is needed, the steps the StarkWare team needs to take before it happens and how builders and users can prepare for it. Tom on the other hand shares his insight on the work the company is doing to improve StarkNet’s performance and target metrics to measure success.
Upcoming Events
Oct 26th - Empiric Twitter space: Discussion on the first Oracle live on StarkNet with Empiric.
Oct 27th - Kakarot Twitter Space: Announcement of Kakarot, a ZK-EVM written in Cairo, featuring Vitalik Buterin.
Oct 27th - Eth Panamá: Omar Espejel (@espejelomar), StarkNet developer advocate, will be presenting the talk "Scaling web3 with Ethereum's L2" in Spanish.
Oct 31st - StarkNetCC: Multiple team members from StarkWare will be travelling to Lisbon to participate in talks and workshops.
Nov 3rd - StarkSanFrancisco
Nov 20th - Blockchain Applied: Eli Ben-Sasson (@EliBenSasson), co-founder and president of StarkWare, will be a keynote speaker.