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Tech

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.

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Tech

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.

Headshot of Starknet Foundation CEO Diego Oliva

Tech

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 co-founders President Eli Ben-Sasson and CEO Uri Kolodny (StarkWare)

Tech

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.

StarkWare co-founders CEO Uri Kolodny and President Eli Ben-Sasson (Natalie Schor/StarkWare)

Finance

Crypto Liquidity Network Paradigm Leans Into DeFi With StarkWare

The Paradex decentralized perpetuals platform is backed by StarkWare's new appchain technology.

StarkWare co-founders President Eli Ben-Sasson and CEO Uri Kolodny (StarkWare)

Tech

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.

StarkWare co-founders CEO Uri Kolodny and President Eli Ben-Sasson (Natalie Schor/StarkWare)

Tech

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.

StarkWare co-founders President Eli Ben-Sasson and CEO Uri Kolodny (StarkWare)

Tech

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

The upgrade will increase the number of transactions per second the blockchain can handle as well as reduce the time-to-inclusion.

StarkWare co-founders CEO Uri Kolodny and President Eli Ben-Sasson (Natalie Schor/StarkWare)

Tech

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

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.

Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-founder and CEO of StarkWare (StarkWare)

Finance

Starknet Foundation Appoints Meta Veteran Oliva as First CEO

The executive will help the non-profit promote growth within the Starknet ecosystem.

Headshot of Starknet Foundation CEO Diego Oliva

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