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Layer-2 Blockchain Developer StarkWare Plans ‘Cairo’ to Verify Layer-3s
The Cairo Verifier, 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
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
The developer firm, together with the Starknet Foundation, said that the program will benefit "dapp" builders and core developers of the Starknet blockchain.
The Protocol: Celestia Airdrop Gets Crypto Users Asking About Starknet Despite No Similar Plans
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 being awarded to early contributors.
Starknet Foundation Showers STRK Tokens on Contributors, Though They're Not Trading Yet
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.
StarkWare Restores Crypto Access for Delinquent Wallet Updaters, After Complaints on X
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
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
The Paradex decentralized perpetuals platform is backed by StarkWare's new appchain technology.
StarkWare’s ‘Starknet Stacks’ Could Add to Growing Field of Blockchain-in-a-Box Offerings
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 software stack.
Layer-2 Blockchain Starknet's ‘Quantum Leap’ Upgrade Goes Live, for Speedier Transactions
The upgrade for Starknet, a layer-2 blockchain or "rollup" to the Ethereum blockchain, went live following a community vote that overwhelmingly agreed to deploy it to mainnet.
