Took a while but I finally made it through the STRK20 whitepaper. Broke it down so you don't have to. Notes, nullifiers, channels, subchannels, viewing keys, compliance. All of it, no jargon. Check it out👇
Private DeFi is coming to Starknet.
Join @jessiexiao_eth, @YukanL from @Xverse, and @akiraonstarknet from @endurfi for a live discussion on what privacy unlocks for DeFi on Starknet.
9:30 am EDT · Fri June 5 · Live on Starknet X
Day 1 / 7. Meet Onward.
Building in the Gamified Experiences track.
What it is, coming tomorrow with the landing page and onboarding flow.
Today's just the brand drop.
Onward.
Day 0 / 7
In the @gooddollarorg × @dev3pack Buildathon.
7 days to ship something real on the GoodDollar ecosystem.
Yesterday's kickoff call with @zintarh_dev of Delulu and @ImmanuelOlivia1 of FocusPet, alumni from GoodBuilders Season 3, was sharp.
The piece that stuck: → "Don't be afraid to pivot." The thing you sketched on Day 1 isn't always the thing that ships on Day 7.
@KilonzoRae53 from the GoodDollar team made clear that comms are open throughout. Guidance, not gatekeeping. That changes how you build.
Shoutout to @_SDAV who'll be mentoring us through the sprint too.
Take a few minutes to seriously contemplate what the ecosystem shipped in only 5 months.
Among the biggest updates:
> Brought STRK to Solana manlets
> Finished integrating LayerZero bridging technology, as well as Stargate Finance
> Open-sourced S-two, making it possible to verify proofs on EVM, while greatly improving efficiency with recursive circuit proving (a big unlock for privacy, ZK-threads, in-protocol proof verification, and client-side proving)
> Launched StarkZap v1, then v2: a TypeScript SDK allowing anyone, from Web2 to Web3 builders, to bring their apps onchain on Starknet and integrate DeFi use cases while abstracting away blockchain complexity. Already 6,000 builders have tried it, and privacy is coming soon
> Partnered with EY to bring our stack and privacy to institutional players
> Introduced the strkBTC plan and vision: the first Bitcoin-backed asset designed to be productive, with compliant privacy features built in
> Presented STRK20s, Starknet’s privacy pool, allowing ERC20s on Starknet to be encrypted, and released its technical paper
> Launched Shinobi, the protocol upgrade enabling in-protocol proof verification on Starknet, the last missing piece for native privacy on Starknet
> Provided a concrete solution to Bitcoin’s quantum-computing problem
> Helped Share Internet raise a seed round to build better financial infrastructure in Africa, powered by Starknet
> Launched strkBTC on Mainnet and prepared the upcoming full launch of STRK20 on June 9
> Released the multi-collateral feature on Extended, allowing traders to trade perps using USDC, XVS, USDT, wBTC, and ETH as collateral across crypto and TradFi assets
> Got native USDC on Starknet integrated into Binance deposits and withdrawals
And the intern in me can already tease that:
> A solution to Bitcoin’s quantum-computing problem with strkBTC will be announced
> More broadly, the roadmap to make Starknet fully post-quantum secure end-to-end will be announced (spoiler: most of the hard work is already done)
> STRK20s will likely go bananas, with the launch on 9th June and the Privacy SDK to be released soon after
> And much more
40% of the year is already done.
The ecosystem has shipped a lot, but there’s still much more to come in the remaining 60%.
Lock in. Seriously.
Here are a few ways to put your liquidity to work on Starknet:
1. Use yield strategies on @trovesfi
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2. Explore DeFi earning opportunities on @endurfi
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3. Use @vesuxyz 's Multiplier to amplify your positions
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Keep your assets working. Stay locked in on Starknet.
#DYOR #NFA
Starknet ranks 3rd among all chains in terms of net flows over the last month.
It also ranks 3rd over the last year.
And we haven’t even encrypted the whole market yet.
Why are you still renting cars with Fiat?
$STRK goes brrr at @travalacom now:
- 50,000+ locations
- 1,700+ rental suppliers worldwide
touch grass at 200mph and pay with crypto.
This is the way: https://t.co/cSVljAMydQ
StarkWare made the post-quantum choice before crypto had a market for it.
The 2018 STARK paper was titled "Scalable, transparent, and post-quantum secure computational integrity."
STARKs avoided trusted setups and curve-based proof assumptions years before post-quantum became a crypto narrative.
https://t.co/0unevRF7xN
PSE (@PrivacyEthereum) recently conducted user research into private transfers.
The research surfaced the core problem clearly: privacy works technically, but it still isn’t practical enough for how crypto is actually used.
🧵
Bitcoin is a $1.9 trillion asset, and less than 0.5% of it participates in DeFi.
99% sits economically idle, and not because people don't want to use it, but because public finance has limits.
STRK20s fix that.
Privacy that works for crypto.
One click away from full post-quantum safety.
On Starknet, upgrading from a regular wallet to a post-quantum-safe one will be as simple as one click.
We’re fully ready for the post-quantum world.
1.7B STRK in voting power is up for grabs.
The Starknet Foundation is distributing it to active governance delegates, and applications are open now.
If you want to help shape how the protocol evolves, this is how.
→ Apply: https://t.co/ZhfLLHBQJy
Everything you do onchain is permanently visible. Until now.
Earlier this month, we introduced strkBTC: Private Bitcoin on Starknet.
In June, that model expands beyond BTC.
STRK20 is the next step 🧵