Starknet announced that it will conduct a stress test on the Starknet Goerli test network at 17:00 today
Starknet announced a stress test on the Starknet Goerli testnet. The test will start at 17:00 and is expected to last for several hours. This test may cause congestion on the Starknet Goerli testnet, which may result in longer waiting times for transactions executed on the testnet. The test will only be conducted on the Starknet Goerli testnet. Other networks, including the mainnet and Sepolia testnet, will not be affected.
Starknet releases new version Cairo v2.5.0, involving advanced compiler changes
According to official sources, Starknet released a new version, Cairo v2.5.0, which only involves changes to the advanced compiler (Cairo to Sierra), so it can be deployed immediately on the Starknet test network and main network. This version also introduces various features of Sierra, eliminates many restrictions in matching expressions, introduces more friendly loop syntax, and adds the concept of "pub".
The number of Starknet bridge users has reached 1.21 million
According to Dune data, the user volume of Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution Starknet bridged has reached 1,216,778, with bridged storage value of 856,052 ETH.
The Starknet community has voted to approve the proposal to "activate the Alpha V0.13.0 upgrade on the mainnet"
The governance page showed that the Starknet community has voted in favor of the proposal "Activating Alpha V0.13.0 Upgrade on the Mainnet", with a final support rate of 99.46%.
StarkNet bridge TVL has reached approximately $2 billion
According to Dune Analysis data, the TVL bridged by StarkNet has exceeded 850,000 ETH, reaching 851,744 ETH at the time of writing this article. According to the current price, the bridged TVL value is nearly about 2 billion US dollars, and the current bridged user addresses exceed 1.2 million.
Starknet opens vote for migrating v0.13.0 testnet to mainnet
Starknet opened the v0.13.0 testnet migration vote on the governance platform, and the vote will end on January 8th at 20:00 (UTC+8).
Starknet has launched a proposal for the V0.13.0 upgrade, and voting will begin tomorrow
On January 3rd, the Starknet Governance Committee initiated a proposal to activate the Alpha V0.13.0 upgrade on the mainnet at the Governance Hub. The voting will begin on January 4th at 12:00 UTC (20:00 Beijing time) and will continue until January 8th at 12:00 UTC (20:00 Beijing time). Earlier, Starknet had announced plans to upgrade to V0.13.0 on January 22nd, which mainly involves adding V3 transaction types to enable future upgrades such as adding STRK as a gas token outside of ETH on the Starknet network.
Starknet community proposes Starknet-based inscription standard SNRC-20
The Starknet community recently released the SNRC-20 standard, which provides adaptability to the inscription for the Starknet chain, and proposes concepts such as inscription chain computing and transfer of inscription information across Starknet-Ethereum.According to social media, the standard has been forwarded and followed by the founder of StarkWare and the official account of Starknet.
The number of active accounts in the Starknet ecosystem has exceeded 69,000 in 2023
Nethermind, a blockchain tool and infrastructure developer, released an article reviewing the progress of Starknet 2023, showing that the number of active accounts has exceeded 69,000 and the block creation time has been reduced from 2000 seconds to 97.09 seconds.
Starknet chain NFT inscription STRKS will start minting tonight at 8pm
According to official sources, the first officially verified Starknet logo NFT inscription, STRKS, will begin casting at 8 pm Beijing time tonight. The total amount of STRKS is 21,000, with a maximum of 1,000 STRKS Coins per card; after the STRKS inscription is engraved, it will be automatically verified, and it will be first come, first served. The STRKS inscription platform is STARK20 Protocol, which is Starknet's first NFT inscription service platform, inspired by SOLS, and created the Starknet NFT inscription paradigm standard.
Starknet bridge TVL reaches 847,100 ETH
Dune data shows that the total value locked (TVL) of Starknet's bridge has reached 847,172 ETH, with a total of 1,210,682 users on the chain. In addition, the current TVL of zkSync's on-chain bridge is 2,595,446 ETH, Arbitrum is 3,169,602 ETH, Optimism is 685,635 ETH, and Base is 272,750 ETH.
The Starknet mainnet v0.13 update will be carried out on January 10, 2024, and will support STRK for gas payment.
According to Starknet's v0.13 mainnet schedule shared in its community on December 19th, the Starknet mainnet v0.13 update will take place on January 10th, 2024, at which time Starknet will support STRK token payment for gas.
Starknet V0.12.3 upgrade will be carried out tomorrow
Starknet posted on X platform: "If there are users who are still using the feeder gateway and have not migrated to one of the alternative solutions, please take action as soon as possible. On December 19, 2023, the feeder gateway will close most queries on the main network, and the network will be upgraded to V0.12.3. Similarly, if there are users who have not switched to using a full node or RPC service, please switch before the feeder gateway is deprecated. If there are any questions or concerns, please post comments on the community forum."
Starknet v0.13.0 has been launched on the testnet
Starknet announced that Starknet v0.13.0 has been launched on the test network.
Starknet’s testnet is migrating to Sepolia
Nethermind Starknet posted on X platform that the Sepolia endpoint on Nethermind's Starknet RPC has been launched and synchronized. The Starknet testnet is being migrated to Sepolia, and support for Goerli will end after 2023.
Scam Sniffer: Starknet advertising phishing scam appears on X, please pay attention to screening
According to a post by Scam Sniffer, there are some phishing scams disguised as advertisements on X platform. Based on the screenshots they provided, the ads display the website as starknet.io (official website), but actually redirect to strk-networks[.]com. If users click on the link and mistakenly sign (authorize), it may result in their assets being stolen.
Starknet bridge TVL reaches 843,000 ETH
Dune data shows that the total value locked (TVL) of Starknet's bridging has reached 843,197 ETH, with a total of 1,207,856 users on the bridging chain. In addition, the current TVL of Arbitrum's bridging is 3,150,030 ETH, Optimism is 684,455 ETH, zkSync is 2,483,581 ETH, and Base is 256,060 ETH.
Blast built by Bware Labs receives funding from Starknet Foundation
Blast, built by Bware Labs, has announced that it has received funding from the Starknet Foundation to expand support for its flagship product, the Blast network. Blast is a decentralized blockchain API platform designed to address Web3 access challenges related to reliability, latency, and centralization.
Starknet ecological Dapp has exceeded 170
According to data from Layer2Gather, over 170 Dapps have been built in the Starknet ecosystem. In addition, Starknet has raised a total of $285.5 million with a valuation of approximately $8 billion. The upcoming airdrop could potentially become one of the largest airdrops in crypto history.
