starknet


Finance

Bitcoin price briefly plunges to $0 on lesser-known Paradex exchange

Starknet-based DEX Paradex reversed its blockchain to an earlier block after a database migration error briefly crashed bitcoin’s price to zero.

Reverse gear (CoinDesk Archives)

Tech

The Protocol: Ledger customer data breached from Global-e platform

Also: Starknet goes down, Vitalik Buterin's goals for Ethereum and ETH staking queues cleared.

Hands rest on the keyboard of a laptop showing trading graphs, data. (Kanchanara / Unsplash modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Starknet back online after four-hour outage, warns some transactions may be affected

Downtime can have knock-on effects across decentralized finance and other onchain applications.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

Markets

Privacy Coin Bid Continues as Zcash Rally Lifts ‘Dino’ Sector; Starknet’s STRK Rockets 40%

A move from cash or crypto to going fully private takes minutes on average in a less than five-step process, as CoinDesk Research said in its recent Zcash report.

Privacy (Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum L2 Starknet Seeks 'Bitcoin's DeFi Take-Off Moment' With BTC Wallet Xverse

The aim is to provide a Bitcoin DeFi experience using trust assumptions as the next big thing to zero-knowledge proofs until such a time that OP_CAT is adopted

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

Tech

Ethereum Layer-2 Starknet Gets First Gaming App-Chain

Nums, a sequential game built off of Starknet’s technology, is the first layer-3 to settle on the network.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

Tech

StarkWare Launches Appchains on Starknet with New Developer Toolkit

The “SN Stack” enables developers to create blockchains for specific crypto use cases, potentially bringing StarkWare's technology to a variety of chains.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

Tech

Crypto Staking Goes Live on Starknet in First for Top Ethereum L2 Blockchains

Now, anyone with 20,000 STRK ($12K) can make money as a validator, and users with smaller holdings can delegate tokens to validators to stake on their behalf.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

Tech

Ethereum Layer-2 Project Starknet to Roll Out Staking Feature Later This Month

StarkWare, the main developer firm behind Starknet, had shared in July that it would introduce a proposal for staking on the blockchain, but had not previously fixed the date of the rollout.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

Tech

Starknet Claims to Shatter Transaction Speed Record Among Ethereum Layer-2 Networks

According to the team, Starknet reached "a max TPS of 127.5 over the past 24 hours," eclipsing the speed record from Coinbase's Base.

Chart purporting to show Starknet breaking TPS record (Starknet/Voyager.online)