ChainCatcher news, StarkWare team member 0d1n fr33 stated that thanks to the on-chain collaborative Telegram game BEAST SLAYERS, the transaction volume on Starknet has reached its highest level since the airdrop.According to Dune data, the number of transactions on Starknet reached 370,000 on October 7, setting a new high since March 15 of this year.

ChainCatcher news, the head of the StarkWare ecosystem posted on the X platform stating that Fractal Bitcoin may have security issues.RPC credentials are hard-coded and cannot be configured via environment variables, and the RPC server is openly exposed and vulnerable to attacks;Allowing RPC connections from any IP address is also very dangerous, exposing users' nodes to potential attacks from anywhere;Certain settings allowing ZeroMQ connections from any IP pose security risks; removing connection limits may lead to resource exhaustion;Official GitHub organizations or repositories are difficult to identify, etc.

ChainCatcher message, StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson posted on the X platform stating, "The biggest problem with cryptocurrency: it is a man's world, lacking sufficient female participation."

ChainCatcher message, StarkWare announced a partnership with sCrypt to build a PoC bridge design using OP_CAT and ZK magic, exploring the construction of a bridge between Bitcoin and L2 specifications.

ChainCatcher news, StarkWare will collaborate with Cosmos contributor Informal Systems to integrate the Cosmos-based IBC protocol on Starknet. This integration will enable Starknet to connect to any IBC-compatible chain, including all chains within the Cosmos ecosystem and other compatible chains outside the system. This integration aims to achieve two main goals for Starknet: to enhance decentralization and interoperability by exploring the Tendermint consensus algorithm and the IBC protocol.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson stated at the ETHCC summit in Brussels, Belgium, that the Layer 2 network Starknet will open staking on its ecosystem by the end of 2024.Ben-Sasson submitted a Starknet Improvement Proposal to the community, suggesting that users can choose whether to become stakers, with rewards proportional to the amount of staked STRK tokens. If the proposal is approved by the community, a staking testnet on Starknet will be launched soon, and it will enter the mainnet in the last quarter of 2024.

ChainCatcher news, StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben Sasson shared his personal views on the Starknet Provisions airdrop plan in a blog post.Starknet is a validity rollup that scales Ethereum through the STARKs cryptographic protocol. On February 14, 2024, the Starknet Foundation announced the first round of the Provisions plan, allocating up to 700 million STRK tokens, with a claim period ending on June 20, during which 500 million tokens were claimed. Eli emphasized that while there may be inaccuracies in the allocation method, there is still a commitment to distribute tokens to those who genuinely care about and support Starknet's long-term vision. There are still 400 million STRK tokens to be allocated in the future, and he hopes to hear more thoughts from people inside and outside the ecosystem regarding the token distribution mechanism.

ChainCatcher news, according to Chainwire, the Web3 retail platform Bring announced the completion of a $1.1 million SAFE round of financing, with participation from Starkware.It is reported that Bring currently supports cashback for purchases of fashion, electronics, health and beauty, travel services, and other products at 450 retailers. Web3 wallets and exchanges have integrated Bring's white-label solution to provide cashback services to users.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, zkSync developer Matter Labs has filed trademark applications for "ZK" in 9 countries, claiming that the term "zero knowledge" is the company's exclusive intellectual property. This move has sparked widespread discontent in the crypto industry.In response, industry leaders including Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal and Brendan Farmer, StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, Polyhedra Network co-founder and zkBridge inventor Tiancheng Xie, as well as Turing Award winner and co-inventor of ZK-proofs Shafi Goldwasser, signed an open letter calling for Matter Labs to withdraw the trademark application, stating that it is an "oppressive act."StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson directly stated that Matter Labs' attempt to trademark ZK technology is an "absurd act of intellectual property hijacking."Currently, Matter Labs has not responded to this matter.

ChainCatcher news, StarkWare announces the launch of a new initiative to drive innovation in the Starknet ecosystem, with an initial budget of 5 million STRK.The initiative aims to attract and retain top talent, promote development and innovation, enhance community education and enjoyment, and ensure accountability and reward contributions.

ChainCatcher news, StarkWare collaborates with Cartridg to launch a new scaling framework ZKThreads based on ZK execution sharding.It aims to address the fragmentation issue by providing a standardized development environment that supports verifiable applications. ZKThreads will be particularly beneficial for high-performance DApps, such as blockchain games and DEXs on Starknet.

ChainCatcher news, the hybrid cryptocurrency exchange X10 has announced the completion of a $6.5 million financing round, with investors including Tioga Capital, Semantic Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Starkware, and Cyber Fund, as well as notable angel investors such as executives from Revolut and Lido founder Konstantin Lomashuk.X10 was founded by former Revolut crypto business head Ruslan Fakhrutdinov, aiming to combine the advantages of centralized exchanges (CeFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi) to provide users with a Revolut-like experience and self-custody of funds. The new funding will be used to build a brand new cryptocurrency exchange that achieves self-custody of funds while providing a high-quality user experience.

ChainCatcher news, the Bitcoin re-staking protocol Chakra based on zero-knowledge technology announced the completion of a new round of financing on platform X, with participation from StarkWare, Bixin Ventures, Cogitent Ventures, Trustless Labs, among others. Specific amounts and valuation information have not yet been disclosed.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Chakra is a Bitcoin re-staking protocol based on ZK proofs. It utilizes STARK to prove staking events on Bitcoin and verify proofs on the second-layer chain.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, StarkWare, and zkSync will integrate with Avail's data availability architecture.In addition, Avail will launch its mainnet in the coming weeks.

ChainCatcher news, StarkWare's Head of Product and Market Strategy Louis Guthmann stated that Starknet will introduce parallelization features in the next upgrade.By adding Block-STM (a parallel execution engine adopted by Aptos) to the sequencer, network performance is expected to increase from 100 TPS to 300-1000 TPS, which means an increase of 3-10 times.