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The Protocol: Restaking Tokens Are Exploding, and Restaking Isn't Even Live

[Feb 21 1:13 PM] In this week's issue of our weekly blockchain tech newsletter, Sam Kessler explores how "liquid restaking tokens" or LRTs are remaking decentralized finance. PLUS: Starknet's STRK airdrop, Stellar's smart-contract facelift and bitcoin's supply…

STRK Tokens Claimed Hit 420M in a Day as On-Chain Metrics Soar

[Feb 21 10:09 AM] More than 490,000 individual wallets claimed 420 million starknet (STRK) tokens in the 24 hours after the highly anticipated airdrop went live, with the token's market cap remaining above $1.2 billion.

Starknet’s STRK Drops 53% Amid Token Issuance Criticism

[Feb 21 12:46 AM] The tokens started trading at around $5 apiece, exchange data shows, but fell ahead of significant token unlocks planned in the months ahead.

Starknet Trading Debut Sees Initial Excitement Fade As STRK Plummets Over 50%

[Feb 20 8:00 PM] In a highly anticipated move, Starknet (STRK), an Ethereum (ETH) roll-up protocol, commenced trading on prominent cryptocurrency exchanges including Binance, Bybit, Bitfinex, and OKX on Tuesday.  The token’s launch was accompanied by an…

Starknet Token STRK Begins Trading at $5 After Mammoth Airdrop

[Feb 20 6:10 AM] Starknet distributed 728 million tokens to around 1.3 million addresses in what is being dubbed as the largest airdrop of the year.

The Protocol: Bitcoin's OP_CAT, Fake Ethereum Tokens, Starknet's Airdrop

[Feb 14 12:11 PM] CoinDesk's Jamie Crawley takes a look at the suddenly-high-profile proposal to revive Bitcoin's historic "OP_CAT" function as a way of enabling more development on the oldest blockchain. PLUS: the unofficial "ERC-404" tokens driving up fees on…

Starknet's STRK Could Debut With Market Cap of Over $1B, Aevo's Pre-Launch Futures Suggest

[Feb 14 3:27 AM] Starknet is set to launch its native token STRK through an airdrop of 728 million coins on Feb. 20.

Starknet Blockchain Plans Much-Awaited Airdrop of New STRK Tokens Next Week

[Feb 14 1:57 AM] The airdrop will happen on Feb.20, and eligible users have until June 20 to claim their tokens.

Starkware to Launch ‘Cairo Verifier’ for Improved Layer 3 Scalability

[Feb 9 7:00 PM] Starkware, in a collaboration with Herodotus Dev, is poised to launch the ‘Cairo Verifier,’ a system designed to verify cryptographic proofs on Starknet’s Layer two. This innovation aims to circumvent the Ethereum mainnet…

Layer-2 Blockchain Developer StarkWare Plans ‘Cairo’ to Verify Layer-3s

[Feb 8 12:03 PM] Cairo, which the StarkWare and the Herodotus developer team worked on together, is a key piece of technology that verifies proofs and posts them back to the layer-2 blockchain, instead of Ethereum’s mainnet.

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 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.

Ethereum L2 Starknet aims to decentralize core components of its scaling network

[Nov 16, 2023 4:20 AM] Starknet has laid out its roadmap to begin decentralizing core components of its Ethereum L2 scaling network to defend against censorship and improve robustness.

Ethereum Layer-2 Booming: Will Gas Fees Drop Even In A Bull Market?

[Nov 6, 2023 6:00 PM] The adoption of Ethereum layer-2s is on the rise if Token Terminal data shared on November 6 is anything to go by. According to statistics from the blockchain analytics platform shared by Erik Smith, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of 401…

The Protocol: Celestia Airdrop Gets Crypto Users Asking About Starknet Despite No Similar Plans

[Nov 1, 2023 12:19 PM] In this week's edition of The Protocol newsletter, we explain the mechanics (and roots) behind the "data availability" network Celestia, and its new TIA tokens, and turn our eyes to Starknet's STRK tokens, which aren't trading yet but are already…

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.

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.

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.

Blockchain Developer Platform Alchemy Launches Public Support for ZK Rollup Starknet

[May 4, 2023 10:00 AM] The blockchain is the first with native account abstraction that the web3 developer platform offers, allowing developers to build applications with Alchemy’s infrastructure on StarkNet.