Each week begins with a Starknet ecosystem recap 🐺
This week, we have new projects on Mainnet and Testnet, a new AA-based feature live on Mainnet, a lot of projects emerging from the StarkHack hackathon, and more 👇
Gas fees have already been destroyed on Starknet; it's now time to improve our transaction finality and TPS capacity! 🐺
After collecting numerous feedbacks from our community, here is the updated roadmap of Starknet, fully focused on UX improvement 💅
🗓️ v0.13.2 August
💠 Parallel execution 💠 Block Packing
The main goals of these two significant upgrades are to decrease the confirmation time to 2 seconds and the block time without increasing L1 costs. Additionally, we aim to enhance the 'execute' limit to ≥10M steps, thereby increasing computation capacity by 2.1 times, and to boost our TPS capacity.
WTF does this mean? Very simple: faster transactions for users, without any additional cost, a better developer experience, and an increased congestion threshold 🕺
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🗓️ v0.13.3 October/November
💠 Cairo Native
This upgrade intends to optimize our Sequencer by incorporating the state-of-the-art Cairo-native by @LambdaClass. The goal is to enable the sequencer to bypass the VM entirely and execute native CPU opcodes.
Even more WTF than v0.13.2, what does this mean? Three main things 🤓 🐺 Improved TPS capacity, enabling Starknet to further increase its congestion threshold 🐺 Improved finality, resulting in faster transactions for users 🐺 Enhanced developer experience
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🗓️ v0.14 January/February
The implications of v0.14 are yet to be decided. We will adapt based on network performance and community demand.
Here are the possible candidates: 💠 Volition: to further destroy gas fees 💠 zkThreads: a novel framework for execution sharding that provides scalability and customizability without fragmentation (ELI5: L3/appchain benefits without the fragmentation issue) 💠 Mempool: to improve the organization and management of transactions (resulting in fewer rejected transactions), enhancing both user and developer experience 💠 Protocol-level paymaster: easy integration of paymaster for dApps, allowing developers to greatly improve the UX of their dApps
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For further details, or if you have any questions or feature requests 👇
Join us with @topology_gg and @Starknet_Asia_ in Tokyo for a fresh edition featuring amazing speakers, networking opportunities with industry leaders, delicious food, and refreshing drinks! 🥂
This week marks a historic moment for all Starknet gamers: @influenceth, an epic fully onchain space strategy MMO, is launching on Mainnet this Thursday! 🥳
This game caters to everyone’s needs: 🐺 Gamers: Discover an autonomous, fully on-chain world with a real in-game economy. 🐺 Developers: Create your own galactic games within this expansive universe. 🐺 Content Creators: With the game's vastness, there's plenty of material for your content.
Gamers will utilize their strategic prowess to accumulate resources, build up empires, and construct spaceships: all fully onchain! While content creators and developers have the opportunity to participate in Influence's Adalian Creatives Collective (ACC) and earn SWAY for helping grow the community.
Most importantly, everyone is sure to have a great time! 🎉
1 week before the launch of @influenceth… Just 1 week left! 👀👀
Have you played Ogame, Eve Online, or Stellaris? Loved The Expanse series?
Then you're going to love Influence! 🌌
Influence is a strategic space colonization game where players collaborate and compete to control the newly formed colony within the Adalian asteroid belt.
The goal? Extend your influence as much as possible in this vast universe.
The gameplay includes: ⛏️ Resource extraction and gathering 🏗️ Building 🤝 Trading 🫂 Creating alliances ☄️ Exploring 🧑🔬 Researching (in a future release) ⚔️ Fighting (in a future release)
But Influence is not just an onchain game. No, no, no: it’s an entire Autonomous World, allowing anyone to create their own tools, stories, and sub-games within this universe.
And since everything happens on-chain, everything you create and own in the game genuinely belongs to you! Moreover, unlike typical web3 games, Influence is entirely player-driven with zero NPCs, delivering a truly immersive and dynamic experience.
This epic new universe launches in exactly 1 week: on June 27th! 📅
Early players will have the unique advantage of being the first to discover, buidl, and gather resources. Believe us, you want to be one of them— so mark your calendar and be there for the launch!