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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)

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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)

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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)

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Starknet Token Holders Ratify Plan to Implement Staking, in Landmark Decentralized Election

The new mechanism on Starknet means that anyone holding more than 20,000 STRK will be able to stake on the network, from the fourth quarter of this year.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, speaking at ETHDenver on Thursday. (Danny Nelson)

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Snapshot, Popular DAO Voting Platform, Finally Moves On-Chain, Atop Starknet

Snapshot X, the new governance protocol, makes use of storage proofs – a cryptographic feature that StarkWare, the primary developer of Starknet, has helped innovate and embraced.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

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It's a Different Sort of Olympics as Cryptographers Face Off in Polyhedra's 'Proof Arena'

This team of cryptographers claimed their "prover" – a key component of many blockchain systems – was faster than anyone else's. Now they've built a platform they say will provide transparent benchmarking for anyone who wants to compare the various options out there.

With Polyhedra's new "Proof Arena," it should be easier to tell who's the fastest (April Walker/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMosh)

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Bitcoin's 'OP_CAT' Possibilities Teased in StarkWare Test Project

StarkWare used its new STARK verifier on the Signet network, a testing environment for Bitcoin, in a proof-on-concept project designed to demonstrate what the oldest blockchain might be capable of were the pending "OP_CAT" technical proposal to get adopted.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

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The Protocol: Another Episode in the Layer-2 Teams Drama

We take a look at what unfolded after Matter Labs’ planned to trademark the term “ZK.”

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Layer-2 Network Starknet Gets Ethereum Virtual Machine With Zero-Knowledge Proofs

The zkEVM, called Kakarot, already in testing, will be available via the Starknet Stack.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, speaking at ETHDenver on Thursday. (Danny Nelson)

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Avail Data Availability Integrated by Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, StarkWare, ZkSync

The chains' users will be able to opt in or out to use Avail for data availability, to stash the reams of data produced for all their transactions taking place.

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

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