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Starkware CEO Uri Kolodny Steps Down Due to Family Health Issues

[Jan 13, 2024 3:30 AM] Starkware faces a leadership transition as CEO Uri Kolodny resigns over pressing family health issues. While stepping down, Kolodny leaves the company in the hands of co-founder and friend Eli Ben-Sasson. Starkware Sees CEO Change as Uri Kolodny…

StarkWare CEO Uri Kolodny Steps Down Due to Family Health Issue

[Jan 11, 2024 7:59 AM]

Celestia Rival Avail Inks Agreement With Starkware as Blockchain Data Race Heats Up

[Dec 20, 2023 10:00 AM] Avail's new "data availability" solution, currently in testing, and Madara, which is Starkware's sequencer, are both expected to go live in early 2024. They might be used in conjunction to create new application chains or "appchains."

StarkWare Distributing $3.5M Fees to Developers in 'Devonomics' Program

[Dec 12, 2023 9:00 AM] The developer firm, together with the Starknet Foundation, said that the program will benefit "dapp" builders and core developers of the Starknet blockchain.

Starknet to hand 10% of network fees to devs, with $3.5M in first distribution

[Dec 12, 2023 9:00 AM] The Devonomics initiative from the Starknet Foundation aims to return a portion of network fees to incentivize developers.

Starknet Foundation to Allocate 1.8B STRK Tokens 'Soon'

[Dec 8, 2023 6:30 AM] Starknet said 900 million STRK are earmarked for the foundation’s Provisions Committee, and 900 million will be dedicated to user rebates.

Starknet token distribution not yet finalized, despite speculation over portal screenshots

[Dec 1, 2023 4:48 AM] The Starknet Foundation is warning community members to be on the lookout for scams relating to circulating screenshots of early iterations of a token distribution portal.

Starknet Foundation Showers STRK Tokens on Contributors, Though They're Not Trading Yet

[Oct 30, 2023 1:23 PM] The foundation, formed in November 2022 after the initial developer StarkWare minted 10 billion STRK tokens, is now awarding early contributors to the Ethereum layer-2 network – even though they're locked for trading at least until next April.

Starknet and zkSync buck trend as crypto ecosystems shed devs by 28%

[Oct 18, 2023 11:33 PM] Monthly active developers across the crypto ecosystem fell 28% year-on-year in October, though some have managed to buck the trend.

Ethereum layer 2 zkEVM ‘Scroll’ confirms mainnet launch

[Oct 17, 2023 5:53 PM] Blockchain data from Etherscan suggest Scroll’s mainnet was live over a week ago.

StarkWare, Herodotus launch tech to verify data from any point in Ethereum's history

[Sep 1, 2023 3:31 AM] Storage Proofs could prove useful for services like account recovery tapping into the ability to access and verify historical Ethereum data.

StarkWare Restores Crypto Access for Delinquent Wallet Updaters, After Complaints on X

[Aug 30, 2023 1:45 PM] After users complained on X, StarkWare walked back on a move in which it implemented an upgrade that made users' funds inaccessible.

Starkware to Open-Source ‘Magic Wand’ of Its Zero-Knowledge Cryptography Next Week

[Aug 22, 2023 8:37 AM] The team behind the layer 2 Starknet blockchain said that they will also hold a code review on Aug. 31 at a conference in San Francisco.

Crypto Liquidity Network Paradigm Leans Into DeFi With StarkWare

[Jul 21, 2023 9:24 AM] The new Paradex decentralized perpetuals platform is backed by the recent appchain technology from StarkWare.

Zero Barriers ahead! Zero knowledge and AI combine to redefine the future

[Jul 20, 2023 7:14 AM] The fourth episode sees StarkWare president Eli Ben-Sasson and Giza co-founder Cem Dagdelen explore the role of AI in smart contracts.

StarkWare’s ‘Starknet Stacks’ Could Add to Growing Field of Blockchain-in-a-Box Offerings

[Jul 19, 2023 10:18 AM] The announcement is part of a growing trend in Ethereum’s layer-2 ecosystem, where developers can create application-specific chains using the blockchain’s native stack.

Layer-2 Blockchain Starknet's ‘Quantum Leap’ Upgrade Goes Live, for Speedier Transactions

[Jul 12, 2023 4:58 AM] The upgrade went live following a community vote that overwhelmingly agreed to deploy it to mainnet.

Starknet Plans ‘Quantum Leap’ Upgrade Next Week After Testnet Version Deployed

[Jul 5, 2023 10:00 AM] The upgrade will increase the number of transactions per second the blockchain can handle as well as reduce the time-to-inclusion.

Starknet’s Quantum Leap hits testnet with TPS reaching ‘triple figures’

[Jul 5, 2023 10:00 AM] Starknet's latest upgrade will scale the ZK rollup's throughput by 50X or more. But capacity is very different to real world usage.

Starknet moves closer to EVM compatibility with upcoming ‘Kakarot’ testnet

[Jun 21, 2023 9:39 PM] With fresh funding under its belt, a new zkEVM is set to go to testnet in August, allowing developers to write in any EVM-compatible language on Starknet.

‘Storage Proofs’ Touted as Alternative to Hack-Prone Bridges in Multichain World

[Jun 21, 2023 9:30 AM] Storage proofs, a feature that could minimize cross-chain exploits by allowing users to keep their assets on one chain and prove that it's there on a different chain, will go live on Starknet soon.

Starknet Foundation Appoints Meta Veteran Oliva as First CEO

[Jun 21, 2023 9:28 AM] The executive will help the non-profit promote growth within the Starknet ecosystem.

Buterin weighs in on zk-EVMs impact on decentralization and security

[Apr 3, 2023 12:30 AM] Vitalik Buterin has weighed the impacts of the addition of zk-EVMs at the protocol level, saying it could speed up the verification process on the base layer.

Newly Formed ZeroSync Association Brings Zero-Knowledge Proofs to Bitcoin

[Mar 28, 2023 4:00 AM] The association has received sponsorship from crypto investment firm Geometry Research and StarkWare Industries – the software company behind StarkNet, a layer 2 Ethereum zero-knowledge rollup scaling solution.

Ethereum-Based Carbon Tracker Carbonable Raises $1.2M to Tackle Greenwashing

[Mar 21, 2023 1:00 AM] Carbonable was launched on Ethereum layer 2 scaling system StarkNet, whose parent company Starkware is also an investor.

Chainlink oracle, data feeds coming to StarkNet ecosystem

[Feb 6, 2023 7:00 AM] StarkWare is set to partner with Chainlink Labs to integrate oracle services and data feeds to the StarkNet testnet.

Starkware Plans to Open Source Key Tech Linked to Starknet Prover

[Feb 6, 2023 1:30 AM] At the Starkware Sessions 2023 event, held at the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv, Israel, Starkware co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson informed the audience that the company intends to open source “key tech” linked to the Starknet Prover. During the…

Drones, Fertility, and Defi — A Look at Alameda Research’s Massive $5.4 Billion Portfolio of Investments

[Dec 8, 2022 9:30 AM] Over the last few weeks, there’s been a lot of information revealed surrounding the recent FTX and Alameda Research disaster. On Dec. 6, the Financial Times (FT) published documentation that shows Alameda’s investment portfolio, which alleges the…

StarkNet makes Cairo 1.0 open source in first step toward community control

[Nov 24, 2022 11:30 PM] StarkNet has prioritized scalability over composability and transparency. But it’s now working on making its tech open source.

L2 is crucial to Ethereum decentralization, censorship resistance, says researcher

[Nov 9, 2022 3:15 PM] Swedish researcher Eric Wall highlighted StarkNet’s influence on Ethereum’s scalability as he joins the board of the newly formed StarkNet Foundation.