Starknet v0.13.2 is coming on Mainnet tomorrow ⚡ Why is this a big anon? Because this upgrade introduces two major features to Starknet: 1⃣ Parallel Execution Right now, Starknet and most blockchains process transactions sequentially, meaning each transaction is handled one by one, with every transaction waiting its turn in a queue. Slow and inefficient af. Parallel execution changes the game. By processing transactions simultaneously, Starknet can now execute multiple transactions at the exact same time, without waiting for each one to be completed individually. Okay… but how? Very very simple 🤓 Unrelated transactions can be executed simultaneously because they don’t interfere with each other. For example, Alice swaps STRK/USDC on AVNU, Bob mints an NFT on Flex, and Chad transfers USDC to Stency—all happened without impacting one another’s actions. Before Starknet v0.13.2, each of these transactions were executed one after the other. With v0.13.2, they’re processed in parallel (at the same time), boosting Starknet’s speed and capacity for you, users and developers 🫵 2⃣ Block Packing Before v0.13.2, Starknet faced a tradeoff between: 💠 More frequent blocks, which meant higher costs 💠 Lower costs, which meant less frequent blocks This situation happens because each Starknet L2 block has a fixed L1 cost. So, more L2 blocks meant more L1 costs. Yeah, completely rekt But that’s no longer the case with Block Packing, thanks to a new data structure called SNAR tree 🍃 In these trees, each leaf is a Starknet block. These leaves are continuously merged at each level of the tree until we get to the root, which represents the merged state transitions of all the blocks. This root is then sent to SHARP (our shared prover), which creates a STARK proof and sends it to Ethereum for verification. TL;DR: Block Packing solves the tradeoff, letting us have the best of both worlds: increase L2 blocks without adding extra L1 costs!! The impact of these upgrades on Starknet? 💠 TPS capacity jumps from around 80 to over 250 (you can currently see on Testnet the TPS capacity of it) 💠 Transaction times are reduced to 2 seconds for most transactions You can enjoy these features on Testnet now, and see you on Mainnet tomorrow! 🫡

🔥 We're on a roll: #ODHack 7.0 is just around the corner!! More projects and more issues coming up! 📆 Please mark your calendar for August 22nd and register over here: 🫡 It is a great way to explore projects, join communities and start your open-source journey! We've got a variety of issues that will be waiting for you! 🥳 Around 14 projects will be participating in this edition from @Starknet , @StellarOrg , @aztecnetwork , @hyle_org & @worldcoin ! We will be introducing each shortly. 🫶 In the meantime, big shout-out to the maintainers from the following projects that are coming up with a bunch of issues: @aztecnetwork @hyle_org @PaltaLabs @Flex_strk @starknet_quest @Niceralab @apibara_web3 @zKorp_ @LudoOnStarknet @AFK_AlignedFamK @k_fastov @agadrupal See you soon! 🫶😌

Attention community! 🚨 Following the mass exodus of Ethereum Goerli validators, Starknet Goerli will be shut down from now on, as was announced over the past few weeks. All testnet-related activities on Starknet are now taking place on Sepolia 🧑‍🔬 If you need testnet ETH for Sepolia, there are two ways to get some: 🔹 Use our dedicated bridge to bridge from L1: 🔹 Claim on a Sepolia Faucet. Two are currently available, one from @BlastAPI, and the other from @StarknetFndn. You can find them at the bottom of this website: Happy testing fam!

Users and Devs, listen up! 📯 Starknet Goerli testnet will be deprecated on April 11th. The time has come to migrate to Sepolia. Here are your options to get tokens on Starknet Sepolia👇

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