Shipping season never ends 🥷 1⃣ Native privacy for all assets is now live on Starknet - STRK20s is fully live on Mainnet, a privacy pool integrated at the protocol level, finally bringing practical privacy onchain: the lowest privacy fee on the market, fast UX, one-click at the wallet level, deep DeFi integrations, and the same liquidity as public markets, for all ERC-20s - As of today, you can shield, unshield, and access private swaps directly from Ready and Xverse wallets. - The ecosystem is already leveraging it: private USDC flows highlighted by Circle, 2 PoCs built by StarkWare (private Payroll and private KYC), and Zylith, a new call auction dark pool built on top of STRK20s. - For builders: the privacy SDK will be open-sourced very soon, and the Starknet Foundation launched Proof, an 8-week incubator for high-potential privacy teams. Applications close 10 July, so be quick. 2⃣ Starknet is becoming a real bet on post-quantum security StarkWare published a roadmap to make Starknet an end-to-end post-quantum-secure chain well before the Q-Day deadline: - Phase 0 (the foundation): STARK proofs already post-quantum secure, S2morrow's post-quantum wallet PoC already running on Mainnet, and Native Account Abstraction making wallet migration smooth for everyone. - Phase 1 (in progress): make new activity post-quantum secure by default. Work started, ~2 months to completion. - Phase 2 (next): give existing contracts a path to post-quantum durability, without breaking interfaces or forcing painful migrations. 1-2 months after phase 1. - Phase 3 (depending on Ethereum): the two remaining inherited surfaces, bridge messaging and blob data availability through KZG commitments, will be resolved as soon as Ethereum migrates its own stack. 3⃣ Better performance, more post-quantum security Starknet v0.14.3 goes live on Mainnet Monday, 6 July, bringing: - Keccak support for client-side proving, enabling virtual private txs signed with EVM signatures - A quantum-resistant SNOS hash, with Blake replacing Pedersen - Block times down from 2 to 1.5 seconds - A dynamic L2 gas base fee for more adaptive pricing during congestion Note: an 8-minute downtime at 8:10am UTC on Monday, and some breaking changes for builders, read the pre-release notes! 4⃣ The ecosystem keeps shipping - STRK is now listed on Robinhood - Extended launched its spot market offering, starting with BTC, ETH, and USDT, with spot and perpetuals sharing a single margin account. We also know the next 6 months' focus: decentralization, ecosystem expansion, the transition to a community-owned protocol, and a massive partnership to be announced (eToro announced yesterday). - Xverse now supports Ledger on Mobile, any user can now use the leading hardware wallet on Xverse mobile to access Starknet. - Medieval Tech became the first Starknet project accepted into the NVIDIA Inception program, with Octopi, a real-time spatial intelligence platform built in parallel of the AMMA prediction market. - Troves released a WBTC boosted vault: a one-click advanced DeFi strategy yielding ~7% - Vesu launched Explore: track positions, inspect pools, and monitor liquidations in one place. - 5 new projects launched on Mainnet this month: ArcX (Pendle-like mechanism on top of Extended) - Starkscan (explorer combining an explorer, an API surface, and an agent workflow layer) - Deadeye (Distribution Markets) - Gaffer (fantasy soccer game) - DeFa (RWA project) 5⃣ The numbers keep improving - Starknet crossed 300M transactions processed on Mainnet - STRK staking reached 1.4B STRK, ~22% of the circulating supply. - Starknet is still the #1 L2 by developer activity across the Ethereum ecosystem. - In only a few days: ArcX hit $400,000 TVL on top of Extended, Hyper xSTRK by Troves filled all its tiers, and the privacy pool reached 5k txs and 100 new users per day, with $500 in daily revenue, during the Shield rush campaign. Can’t stop, won’t stop.(StarkWare 🥷)