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Markets
Starknet
Starknet’s STRK Drops 53% Amid Token Issuance Criticism
The tokens started trading at around $5 apiece, exchange data shows, and fell ahead of significant token unlocks planned in the months ahead.
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By Shaurya Malwa
Feb 21, 2024 at 6:46 a.m. UTC
Feb 21, 2024
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Finance
Starknet
Starknet Token STRK Begins Trading at $5 After Mammoth Airdrop
Fully diluted value of STRK reached as high as $50 billion with an initial market cap of $3.64 billion.
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By Oliver KnightMargaux Nijkerk
Feb 20, 2024 at 12:10 p.m. UTC
Feb 20, 2024
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Technology
The protocol
The Protocol: Bitcoin's OP_CAT, Fake Ethereum Tokens, Starknet's Airdrop
CoinDesk's Jamie Crawley takes a look at the suddenly-high-profile proposal to revive Bitcoin's historic "OP_CAT" function as a way of enabling more development on the oldest...
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By Bradley Keoun
Feb 14, 2024 at 6:11 p.m. UTC
Feb 14, 2024
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Markets
Starknet
Starknet's STRK Could Debut With Market Cap of Over $1B, Aevo's Pre-Launch Futures Suggest
Starknet is set to launch its native token STRK through an airdrop of 728 million coins on Feb. 20.
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By Omkar Godbole
Feb 14, 2024 at 9:27 a.m. UTC
Feb 14, 2024
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Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-founder and President of Starkware (Starkware)
Technology
Ethereum
Starknet Blockchain Plans Much-Awaited Airdrop of New STRK Tokens Next Week
The airdrop will happen on Feb. 20, and eligible users have until June 20 to claim their tokens
Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-founder and President of Starkware (Starkware)
By Margaux Nijkerk
Feb 14, 2024 at 7:57 a.m. UTC
Feb 14, 2024
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Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-founder and CEO of StarkWare (StarkWare)
Technology
Starknet
Layer-2 Blockchain Developer StarkWare Plans ‘Cairo’ to Verify Layer-3s
The Cairo Verifier, which the StarkWare and the Herodotus developer team worked on together, is a key piece of technology that verifies proofs and posts them back to the layer...
Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-founder and CEO of StarkWare (StarkWare)
By Margaux Nijkerk
Feb 8, 2024 at 6:03 p.m. UTC
Feb 8, 2024
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Avail founder Anurag Arjun (Avail)
Technology
Data availability
Celestia Rival Avail Inks Agreement With Starkware as Blockchain Data Race Heats Up
Avail's new "data availability" solution, currently in testing, and Madara, which is Starkware's sequencer, are both expected to go live in early 2024. They might be used in c...
Avail founder Anurag Arjun (Avail)
By Margaux Nijkerk
Dec 20, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. UTC
Dec 20, 2023
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StarkWare co-founders CEO Uri Kolodny and President Eli Ben-Sasson (Natalie Schor/StarkWare)
Technology
Starknet
StarkWare Distributing $3.5M Fees to Developers in 'Devonomics' Program
The developer firm, together with the Starknet Foundation, said that the program will benefit "dapp" builders and core developers of the Starknet blockchain.
StarkWare co-founders CEO Uri Kolodny and President Eli Ben-Sasson (Natalie Schor/StarkWare)
By Margaux Nijkerk
Dec 12, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. UTC
Dec 12, 2023
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Technology
The protocol
The Protocol: Celestia Airdrop Gets Crypto Users Asking About Starknet Despite No Similar Plans
In this week's edition of The Protocol newsletter, we explain the mechanics (and roots) behind the "data availability" network Celestia, and its new TIA tokens, and turn our e...
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By Bradley Keoun
Nov 1, 2023 at 6:19 p.m. UTC
Nov 1, 2023
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Technology
Starknet
Starknet Foundation Showers STRK Tokens on Contributors, Though They're Not Trading Yet
The foundation, formed in November 2022 after the initial developer StarkWare minted 10 billion STRK tokens, is now awarding early contributors to the Ethereum layer-2 network...
Headshot of Starknet Foundation CEO Diego Oliva
By Bradley Keoun
Oct 30, 2023 at 7:23 p.m. UTC
Oct 30, 2023
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