For anyone who is interested, here is a library of essays, interviews and old talks by some of the most important people in the history of computing and the early internet: (Licklider, Hamming, Kay, Engelbart, Minsky & more)
It's here!!! Solidity -> Cairo just got serious.
The first stable release of Warp 2.0, will be undergoing an audit. Warp 2 is orders of magnitude better than Warp 1 anyway you measure it.
Absolutely amazing work by the Warp team
@nethermindeth
<3
Ethereum’s StarkNet moment will be another one of those turning points in crypto that blows the roof off current adoption.
For the first time in Ethereum’s history, marginal cost per tx (gas) will decrease with adoption.
It’s hard to express how exciting StarkNet is. I think lots of devs are starting to realise the opportunity. Easy L1 -> L2 messaging, fast finality, gas cost gets cheaper as more people use the network(opposite of ETH), no lock in time as required by fraud proofs 1/n
Aave is coming to StarkNet! The governance proposal passed yesterday. Next week
@eboadom
,
@mempoolsurfer
,
@swp0x0
&
@The3D_
& I will start Phase I dev, which will be followed by the deployment of Aave V3, plus some goodies that aren't possible on L1, on StarkNet! cya gas fees
Solidity on StarkNet? Yes, StarkNet, the L2 where gas gets cheaper as more people use it, thanks to some STARK magic.
A brief description on the current progress of Warp. tldr; its really close to being finished.
@StarkWareLtd
@nethermindeth
@CairoLang
With Warp, you can even write your tests in Solidity, we'll transpile them to Cairo, deploy the Cairo contract to a local StarkNet instance, and run the test on the deployed Cairo contract.
I went through an interesting experience recently:
I died and was brought back to life. On Tuesday I was taken to ICU due to internal bleeding and my conditioned worsened to the point where my heart stopped and was started a couple of seconds later with a defibrillator…1/n
Dai transpiled from Solidity to Cairo with Warp 2.0 vs its hand-written Cairo counterpart. Efficiency is almost exactly the same, and the transpiled contract is 10KB smaller than the native one
Really excited to be the new CTO at
@nethermindeth
.
@tkstanczak
is an incredible CEO. I've learned so much from him and everyone in the
@nethermindeth
family over the last 8 months.
To everyone at
@nethermindeth
: I can't wait to see all the great things you'll build.
There's a shift happening right now in DeFi that could have a fundamental effect on DeFi's market microstructure & app-layer:
More & more compute / execution is moving offchain..
1/
Nethermind's formal verification team has been building serious tooling around
@CairoLang
. We'll be releasing our Cairo automated theorem prover soon. We're also doing EVM formal Verificatin.
Here's what
@StarkWareLtd
President & Co-Founder
@EliBenSasson
had to say about them:..
Bringing 3D graphics to
#StarkNet
- Axie
#44
and
#42
in the same scene host in cairo contracts (axies owned by
@Axie44
, modeling work by
@MonsterSea7
). Demo run in local pytest environment where the client retrieves and renders the gltf. Obviously working towards interoperability
DVT is vital for ensuring staking remains permissionless, trustless, and decentralized.
The cryptography research team at
@nethermindeth
has been hard at work on this problem. This is the first part of a series giving you a technical run-down on DVT.
And it was on this day that the spark was lit. A spark that would grow not only change one of the most important decentralized networks in the world forever, but for the first time, demonstrate the utility of one of the few novel computing paradigms of the last 15 years.
The first Turing Complete zk language, arbitrary composability and amazing dev tools.
For most of ETH’s history, high cost of experimentation has been a major hindrance of innovation, people aren’t ready for what comes when StarkNet bulldozes and this wall.
Ethereum withdrawals update:
- There was a small change in the withdrawals format, hence there will be one more devnet (withdrawal-devnet-3)
- The public testnet is still targeted for next week
We've just made Warp 2.0 public:
It's still absolutely not production-ready, there's still stuff we need to implement. PRs are welcome! You can see a link to our notion at the bottom of the README for tasks that are being worked on & need to be worked on
Dai transpiled from Solidity to Cairo with Warp 2.0 vs its hand-written Cairo counterpart. Efficiency is almost exactly the same, and the transpiled contract is 10KB smaller than the native one
There's been a lot of talk about the centralization of PoS Ethereum recently. Most of the public discourse on the topic is misguided, BUT the main point stands:
We need mechanisms to make liquid staking protocols permissionless.
Read more:
Check out the new Nethermind Research proposal to
@LidoFinance
to design a Sybil and white-labeling resistance mechanism for good validator set maintenance
Other projects telegram: "YOO everyone go shill on reddit <link>. Let's go to the moon."
"What slippage do I need on Uniswap?"
StarkNet telegram: "I've solved the Riemann Hypothesis in Cairo <link>"
"Nice! here's my closed-form solution to ping-pong ball aerodynamics in Cairo."
Over the past year,
@nethermindeth
has gone from less than 15 employees to almost 100. We’ve been quietly hacking away on some super exiting projects . I’ll be filling you in on the details on the
@StarkWareLtd
podcast on Feb 24!
There’s something really special happening at
@nethermindeth
. Trapping lighting in a bottle is something that might happen to you a couple of times in your life, so join the ride. We’re hiring tons of Cairo devs, DM me!
@CairoLang
Something no one really talks about: Crypto’s talent arbitrage is massive because of its borderless nature, which is itself enabled by crypto. At
@nethermindeth
we’ve got people from more than 40 countries, many of whom we pay in USDC. btw we’re hiring!
Really proud of the amazing work the team has done for the release of Warp 1.0.
We've got some exciting new projects on the horizon
#AaveV3StarkNet
?
Not to mention, it's been great working with the outrageously talented people
@StarkWareLtd
We are excited to announce our Series C of $50M at $2B.
A big thanks to our lead investor,
@sequoia
, our wonderful follow-on investors, and the dozens of ecosystem partners and collaborators who participated in this round, for their vote of confidence in our products and tech.
The next big milestone in the
#Warp
project has been reached 🎉 Introducing UniStark:
#Uniswap
only Warp'ed to
#StarkNet
!
We have successfully transpiled and compiled UniswapV3 🚀 Find out how & get the link to the repo here:
@StarkNetEco
@Uniswap
Come join the top Cairo auditing team at
@nethermindeth
. We’re building some amazing tooling around Cairo, including an SMT-based Formal Verification took.
.
@nethermindeth
is a team of world class builders & researchers building Ethereum.
Now hiring remote!
⚡Cairo Auditor
⚡Cairo Dev
⚡Solidity Smart Contracts Engineer
⚡Solidity Auditor
⚡DeFi Research Analyst
⚡Ethereum Core Dev
+ Interns!
Apply now 👇
Maker is now connected to StarkNet ✨ The StarkNet Dai Bridge is live on !
↔️ This is the official Maker implementation that enables Dai transfers between StarkNet and Ethereum
@StarkWareLtd
🤝 Dai
🌌 How does it work? Here is a friendly explanation:
1/
Interesting ZK-SNARK paper co-authored by Netherminds Research team lead Michal Zajac
Counting Vampires: From Univariate Sumcheck to Updatable ZK-SNARK
We are thrilled to announce our $100M Series D at an $8B valuation.
We would like to thank Greenoaks and Coatue - our lead investors, Tiger Global, and many of our existing investors, for their vote of confidence in the technology, products, and ecosystem that we’re building.
@RyanBerckmans
I met with some of the Lido team today at Devconnect and this opinion couldn’t be further from the truth. They really, really care about decentralization, credible neutrality, making Lido permissionless, open & fair. No BS
I think that says a lot about the culture and great collection of people at
@nethermindeth
. Looking back on it all there is literally nothing I would rather be doing than building at
@nethermindeth
<3
You shouldn’t think about StarkNet as just a layer 2 roll up..
It’s actually a (soon to be) decentralized platform for efficient, generalized *VERIFIABLE* computation.
Pandora’s box has been STARKed
The winner of the Underhanded Cairo Contest is.....
@milancermak
! There were a ton of interesting submissions this round, honorable mentions to
@LauriPelto
& Albert Garreta! Here's
@milancermak
's explainer of his submission:
The hardhat-warp plugin can now run the entire Uniswap V3 test suite on the transpiled Cairo, with no changes to the original test code!
The result? Warped Uniswap V3 now passes the full Uniswap V3 test suite!
What's going on here?
Warp hardhat plugin incoming. Run your solidity hardhat tests on the transpiled Cairo automagically.
1. Transpile the sol test to Cairo.
2. The Warp plugin takes your UNCHANGED .spec.ts file, converts it to Cairo tests & runs them.
By
@mempoolsurfer
& Co
I was at a Flashbots brain storming session a couple of weeks ago, and I think a lot of people don’t realise that they actually really, really care about keeping Ethereum fair and protecting users.
@SamuelShadrach4
For profit != profit over everything
Not for profit != alignment
Don’t project a broken model of capitalism upon everything you see
The world is not black and white
The wait is over! Warp has arrived - an EVM to Cairo transpiler. Warp Your Way To
#StarkNet
🚀
We've just released a demo where you can transpile a Solidity ERC20 contract to
#Cairo
and deploying the contract to StarkNet. Great article by
@0xGreg_
The genesis of Nethermind Synthesis. Over the last year, we've had our heads down building with our great partners. Super proud of everyone
@nethermindeth
& we're only in our first innings. Here's a run-down of what we've been up to!
Our
@nethermindeth
core team has been doing amazing work with Snap Sync & pruning.
Show your support for continued improvements in client diversity.
@gnosischain
was one of Nethermind's earliest supporters!
-
@alexberegszaszi
,
@ethchris
& the entire
@solidity_lang
team don't get enough credit for the insanely valuable work they do. Since we've been working on Warp, every question we've had about the compiler has been answered by the team in detail, usually within minutes. Unreal.
As I watched nurses and doctors running frantically around me, I had the cliche moment of racing through my entire life and one of the things that stands out is how sad I felt that I might not get to see what all the amazing
@nethermindeth
peeps are building…
Pattern Matching? Abstract Data Types? Traits? Type safety guarantees?
All of those in a Turing-complete language, that makes your code STARK-provable, without you needing to know a damn thing about this giga-brain 'zk-proof' stuff?
Yup. This is seriously cool
Time to announce: Cairo 1.0 🦅
This is Cairo's biggest advancement to date.
Cairo 1.0 will enhance usability, safety, and convenience. It will support StarkNet's permissionless network requirements, and will simplify and secure the protocol
Super excited to be working with the outrageously talented people at
@nethermindeth
&
@StarkWareLtd
on the EVM -> Cairo compiler! Hopefully you'll be counting your gas cost in kwei instead of eth in the not so distant future.
I'll be giving a talk at the StarNet London meetup on September 8. If you're around in London, come meet some of the StarkNet builders!
Here's the link to the event:
Part II of our blog post series on Distributed Validator Technology just dropped:
A tour of Verifiable Secret Sharing schemes and Distributed Key Generation protocols. by Ignacio Manzur Tomasini
Pattern Matching? Abstract Data Types? Traits? Type safety guarantees?
All of those in a Turing-complete language, that makes your code STARK-provable, without you needing to know a damn thing about this giga-brain 'zk-proof' stuff?
Yup. This is seriously cool
#StarkNet
Alpha 3 - live on testnet!
We continue to prepare for the Alpha deployment on Mainnet, and to improve StarkNet based on your feedback!
Highlights:
✅Improved testing framework
✅Improved compilation time
✅Syntax for short strings
More info:
We've recently hired a couple of talented engineers who'll be working on the Warp transpiler, and we're looking to hire more! If working at the bleeding edge of L2 tech with some of the best people in the ecosystem (
@StarkWareLtd
&
@nethermindeth
) sounds interesting, DM me.
THREAD: Don't pay $50k to study a zoom CS Degree. Here are some amazing resources that I have collected over years. You can learn everything you would in a CS degree and much more, in less than a year. I wish I had this list when I was starting out:
StarkNet had composability months ago :), this is just announcing that Warp supports transpilation of Solidity to Cairo for contracts that call other contracts, and that Warp is pretty close to being feature compete
@gluk64
I know so many people who are using ChatGPT daily, I've been using ChatGPT + MJ V4 daily.
In the future, when we look back this time, we'll think "yup that was the point at which people should have realized how quickly this technology would permeate everything we do"
Job seakoooors, we're hiring faster than the time it takes your partner to shout at you after you ape into another ponzi:
Cryptography Research
ETH Core/Client Devs
Auditing & Formal Verification
StarkNet Core/Client Devs
.. while I was receiving a blood transfusion. When I came to, the enormity of what had happened really sunk in.
I don’t remember anything during the couple of seconds I was dead, but I do remember the time leading up to it:
..2/n
Earlier today our system detected an exploit in the JayPeggers protocol
the issue was reported and we are working with the protocol to mitigate and prevent further loss
2/5 🔥 We've been running the program for over a year now. 126 interns completed it to date, 52 are currently working on our projects and we have 40 scheduled to start with us in the next 4 months.
I was V skeptical of FB. It’s so easy to shit on Flashbots without having met or spoken to the team. From first hand experience, Phil and the team are probably doing as much as s any other Org protect Ethereum’s values.
@phildaian
@ObadiaAlex
.
Can we pls appreciate nuance?
Phil is one of the best builders in the entire space both in technically (galaxy brain is a huge understatement) but also in terms of demonstrated values, commitment to decentralization, and an ability to see into the future.
I recommend people pay attention to what he says.