Node Guardians

Skill-based RPG for seasoned developers.

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

🗡️Node Guardians beta is over!

Refined interface, new features, and quests await.

Sharpen your programming skills in a gamified, story-driven world while unlocking opportunities.

🎖️Guardians solving quests within 7 days get an exclusive reward.

https://t.co/7d7wMRORUo

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

📚A Study on STARKs is live.

This campaign explores the theory behind how STARKs verify computation — through two foundational steps:

-AIR: express computation as polynomials

-FRI: prove a function is a polynomial

👇

https://t.co/F23VyVPcnP

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

Congrats to the @Obol_Collective for this huge step in guiding and supporting the future of decentralized infrastructure!

[Obol @Obol_Collective]

🌅 Today marks the beginning of a new phase of the Obol Collective.

Announcing the $OBOL token, and the world’s largest Decentralized Operator Ecosystem.

🧵👇

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

🆕Cairo Release 🏜️

The Lost Pyramid is a CTF campaign to enhance your skills in reading and writing Cairo contracts on @Starknet. Quests intensify as you progress on your journey.

If you’re familiar with Cairo, this campaign is crafted for you.

https://t.co/gN1HCYvEFf

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

@gioDiego14 @0xCadix How were these skill points spent : ) ?

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

🆕 Campaign Release: Entering Cairo🏝️

Cairo is a programming language designed for compiling provable STARKs and is the language of @Starknet.

5 beginner-friendly quests just launched - your first steps into Cairo, live today.

Time to speak integrity.

https://t.co/rd1P1Ii1fm

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

💧Humbled to join @LidoFinance's Simple DVT Super Clusters.

We will be part of the Bold Banshee cluster in collaboration with @Obol_Collective.

Boldly guarding the nodes in the shadows.

[Lido @LidoFinance]

Simple DVT ‘Super Cluster’ Update:

In early June, a proposal passed for the addition of 10 ‘Super Simple DVT Clusters’ - 5 from @obol_collective and 5 from @ssv_network - to supercharge the adoption of DVT via validators using Lido protocol.

https://t.co/VKlIojJEXz

Read on for more on the onboarding of proposed ‘Super Clusters’ and what it means for the Lido protocol 👇

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

☕️New Quest Release: Brewing Blocks on Espresso

@EspressoSys is building a marketplace for rollups to sell their sequencing rights.

This can have various benefits, such as interoperability, fast finality, and ease of deployment.

Dive deeper:

https://t.co/0PMfv7RvY3

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

🗡️Like competitive coding?

The much-anticipated Hall of Fame is now live!

Check out the real-time leaderboard with the top 100 Guardians who've been solving challenges since the genesis of the platform.

Are you ready to take over the throne?

https://t.co/iszCRyB9Lr

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

🔴 New campaign release: Playing with OP Stack

In this campaign, you'll discover:

- The OP Stack architecture
- How to bridge between OP Stack chains
- How to launch your own rollup using the OP Stack

All while being optimistic.

https://t.co/XMtusEn8xz

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

Node Guardians constantly seek new and arcane knowledge. You’ve learned of a mysterious spirit, the Zeek, known to few mages.

Recently, you heard a rumor about a hermit in the moorland of Lodz who knows the Zeek's secrets.

Perhaps he’ll share them if you find him…

5/5

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

Quest #3: zkSync Paymasters

This quest introduces the concept of paymasters (and pay abstraction) and guides you through paymaster transactions on zkSync Era.

You will need to familiarize yourself with the key interface of paymasters, along with paymaster flows.

4/5

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

Quest #2: zkSync Accounts

This quest introduces the concept of native Account Abstraction and the unique account flow of zkSync Era.  It then challenges you to build your own smart account, with some unique logic.

3/5

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

Quest #1: zkSync Contracts

This quest will serve as an overview to building on zkSync, and a warm-up to the next two quests. It will be composed of three subsections:

-Setting up a zkSync Hardhat project
-Differences between EVM & zkEVM
-Era System Contracts

2/5

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

⚫⚪New campaign announcement: Building on zkSync

Introduction to developing custom account flows on zkSync Era.

Solvers will be rewarded with a unique item🐱

The campaign is split into 3 quests - let's dive into it👇

https://t.co/AqdvKRAMkG

1/5

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

🗡️Swift recap of the most completed quests last week:

• Sparring Sorcerers: a Cairo quest, 2 swords of difficulty

• Lido's Dual Governance: a Theory quest, 3 swords of difficulty

• Building ERC 20: a Solidity quest, 1 sword of difficulty

Quests completion diversification.

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

🟡Imagine having trust minimization, scalability and seamless bridging through validity-based schemes accessible in a popular language.

Now stop imagining and study @RiscZero + Rust.

The scope of what can be built with it is large (and verified).

https://t.co/K4qxowAuTi

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

⚠️Valiant reminder Guardians: applying to this hacker house with the completion of our Cairo quests, will give a notable boost to your application.

@Starknet recognizes skills 🐺🐱 ⚔️

[Anon @starknet_anon]

Both @nodeguardians and @starklingsapp serve as a gateways not only into @CairoLang and @starknet, but also into the HH!

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

💧Very excited to start guarding @LidoFinance nodes in the Simple DVT Module in collaboration with @ObolNetwork.

Prepare yourselves, The Observant Octopus cluster is approaching and will be visible in the coming weeks.

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

@Sovni7 @CelestiaOrg 🧱

[Node Guardians @nodeguardians]

💧New Release: @LidoFinance's Dual Governance

The principal-agent problem is a significant challenge in the industry.

In this quest, discover Lido's proposed solution.

Designed with a scalable and decentralized liquid staking protocol in mind.

https://t.co/SpPiaUhNaI