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STARKtember is over. 🟣
🔹30 days documenting @Starknet.
🔹One thesis: verification over trust.
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Day 30/30.
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- gm Starknians ☀️ STARKtember is over. 🟣 🔹30 days documenting @Starknet. 🔹One thesis: verification over trust. Here's every thread, in order. Save it. 🧵👇 Day 30/30.Made with AI
1/ Day 1: PRIVATE SPRINT The kickoff. My agents reviewed +200 STRK20 Private Sprint teams, the 15 wildest, every one already live on mainnet.GM Starknians 👋 Back from vacation with a challenge: 30 days talking about @Starknet. And starting strong, the STRK20 Private Sprint is live: 173 teams shipping privacy. My agents reviewed them all and these 15 are absolutely wild every one already live on mainnet 🧵👇🔒2/ Day 2: SMART ACCOUNTS Native account abstraction: every account is a smart contract.gm Starknians ☀️ For years I told not-yet-crypto folks that clicking one button onchain needs a seed phrase, an wallet and ETH, BTC... Then I started building on @Starknet. None of that is necessary. The reason: native Account Abstraction. Day 2/30 🧵3/ Day 3: POST-QUANTUM STARKs are hash-based. No trusted setup, no quantum expiry date.gm Starknians ☀️ Yesterday we saw why your @Starknet account is code. Today: the word that scares crypto. ⚛️ QUANTUM. A little-known fact: "post-quantum secure" is in the TITLE of the 2018 STARK paper. Not a patch. The thesis. Day 3/30 🧵 eprint.iacr.org/2018/0464/ Day 4: SOLID BASE The thesis: solid foundations are what turn into real apps.gm Starknians ☀️ Yesterday we closed the quantum threat. Today I switch gears and answer the question I get most: Why do I build on @Starknet and not another L2? Not the STRK price. Something far more boring and far more important: the STACK. Day 4/30 🧵5/ Day 5: MEET CAIRO Cairo in 60 seconds, and why it isn't Solidity.gm Starknians ☀️ Yesterday I showed you the stack. Today I go one layer down: the language. I'll say it straight: @CairoLang isn't "another Solidity." It's a language built around a different idea: that code can PROVE it did what it was supposed to. Day 5/30 🧵6/ Day 6: BITCOIN L2 Starknet as a Bitcoin L2, not just an Ethereum one.gm Starknians 👋 From Cairo → proofs → Bitcoin. @Starknet biggest bet isn’t just scaling Ethereum. It’s making Bitcoin more programmable without turning Bitcoin into something else. Day 6/30🧵7/ Day 7: STARK PROOFS What a STARK proof actually is, and why it rewrites trust.gm Starknians ☀️ I have always believed STARKs are not just a solution for blockchains. They are a way to turn ANY computation into a tiny proof. Day 7/30 🧵8/ Day 8: LIQUIDITY LAYER Ekubo, the AMM built different.gm Starknians ☀️ Yesterday: STARKs, how a network can prove computation without re-executing it. Today I want to bring that down to something you can touch: DeFi. Day 8/30 🧵9/ Day 9: STWO PROVER S-two: M31 + Circle STARKs, the fastest prover in production.gm Starknians ☀️ The prover is the engine of a zk-rollup: it turns execution into a proof. Today @Starknet runs the fastest one in production, S-two the @StarkWareLtd. Let's open it up. Why is it fast? The answer is deeper than "better code." Day 9/30 🧵10/ Day 10: MY STACK The 5 tools I actually ship with.gm builders ☀️ "What do I need to build on @Starknet?" Honest answer: it depends on what you're building. The ecosystem has dozens of tools. But 5 are where almost everything starts — 5 different jobs. Those are the ones I'll walk you through 🧵 Day 10/30 🛠️11/ Day 11: GAS ABSTRACTION Paymasters: gasless vs gas-free (SNIP-9/29).gm Starknians ☀️ The friction that kills onboarding isn't the app. It's "first, go buy the gas token." On @Starknet I can make that step disappear. But there's a word people misuse when they do "gasless". Let me show you the real mechanics 🧵 Day 11/30 🌐12/ Day 12: ONCHAIN GAMING Fully on-chain games: the game IS the contract (Dojo).gm builders ☀️ Most "blockchain games" only put the item onchain. The game itself still runs on a company's server. They can change the rules, or switch it off. @Starknet flips that: the game is the smart contract. Let me show you what that means 🧵 Day 12/30 🌐13/ Day 13: PRIVACY Opt-in privacy, already on mainnet (STRK20 & strkBTC).gm STARKnians ☀️ Let's kill a myth: a "ZK-rollup" is *not* private. For years, @Starknet's zero-knowledge meant one thing, proving computation cheaply. 🔹Not hiding it. Your balance was fully public. In 2026 that changed. Let me show you how 🧵 Day 13/30 🌐14/ Day 14: BTCFi What your Bitcoin actually does on Starknet today.gm Starknians ☀️ Your BTC has sat still for years. "Digital gold", doing nothing. The stat that got me talking about BTCFi this weekend: Today there's more VALUE staked in BTC on @Starknet than in STRK. Bitcoin went to work 🧵 Día 14/30.15/ Day 15: FEES & TPS Why fees are low & throughput high: blobs + state diffs.gm Starknians ☀️ Two years ago the average @Starknet fee was ~$6. Today it's cents. One Ethereum upgrade, plus a design choice most people miss, flipped the whole cost model. Let me show you what actually happened 🧵 Día 15/30. starknet.io/blog/understan…16/ Day 16: ONBOARDING The UX that AA unlocks: social login, session keys, gasless.gm Starknians ☀️ The last few days we went low-level: proofs, blobs, fees, state diffs. Today, zoom out. Forget the tech for a second. What does using @Starknet actually FEEL like for a normal person now? Onboarding 🧵 Día 16/30.bu17/ Day 17: RECURSION Proofs of proofs, folded into one root proof for L1.gm Starknians ☀️ The part that still feels like magic to me: Ethereum doesn't verify each @Starknet transaction one by one. It verifies ONE cryptographic proof that a huge computation was done correctly. How? Recursion 🧵 Día 17/30.18/ Day 18: PERPS Perps on Starknet: execution up top, verification underneath.gm Starknians ☀️ Perps need two hard-to-combine things: → fast execution → verification without trusting the operator This is where STARKs come in. They don't do the matching. They let you PROVE a huge computation ran correctly 🧵 Día 18/30.19/ Day 19: INTEROP Messaging as the primitive, StarkGate as the hub.gm Starknians ☀️ "Interop" sounds like bridges. But the real primitive on @Starknet is L1↔L2 messaging. 🔹A bridge is an app built on top of that messaging layer. Let me walk you through the whole map 🧵 Día 19/30.20/ Day 20: SCALE OUT Scaling out, not up: appchains & ZKThreads.gm Starknians ☀️ Scaling isn't only "go faster." The other axis: scale OUT more execution, more chains, all still verified on Ethereum by the same proofs. That's fractal scaling. Let me map how @Starknet actually does it 🧵 Día 20/30.21/ Day 21: CLIENT-SIDE Client-side proving: prove it on your device, reveal nothing.gm Starknians ☀️ When Vitalik describes Ethereum's future, he describes tech @Starknet already runs today. The bridge between them: client-side proving. Prove without revealing 🧵 Día 21/30.22/ Day 22: FELT & STORAGE Cairo's felt252 & storage-by-hash: the quirk is the superpower.gm Starknians ☀️ @CairoLang isn’t “Solidity with different syntax.” It’s a language designed for provable programs. Some of its weirdest parts make perfect sense once you see the model. 3 things that clicked for me 🧵 Day 22/30.23/ Day 23: ECOSYSTEM MAP Starknet starting to look like an economy, not just a chain.gm Starknians ☀️ @Starknet is starting to look like an ECONOMY, not just a blockchain. What’s interesting isn’t how many apps there are. It’s how they’re starting to connect. 🧵 Day 23/30.24/ Day 24: THE VERIFIER How a proof lands & finalizes on Ethereum.gm Starknians ☀️ We've covered STARK proofs, opened S-two, seen recursion. Today, the other side of all of it: **THE VERIFIER.** The prover does the work. The verifier just checks the proof 🧵 Day 24/30.25/ Day 25: CODE → MATH From Cairo code to the math that gets proven, down to the circle.gm Starknians ☀️ We've met the prover, the verifier, even proofs of proofs. One question's still open: what actually gets proven and how? Today we go all the way down. Even to why S-two proves on a circle 🧵 Day 25/30.26/ Day 26 STATE OF STARKNET The honest picture: the good AND the rough.gm Starknians ☀️ For 25 days I've told you why Starknet is cool. Today: no narrative. Just the on-chain numbers, the good AND the bad. State of Starknet, cross-checked 🧵 Day 26/30.27/ Day 27: DECENTRALIZATION It's a ladder, not a switch.gm Starknians ☀️ Yesterday I said Stage 1: "not training wheels." But "decentralized" isn't yes/no. It's a staircase. Today: which step @Starknet is actually on, the cool parts AND the wheels still on. 🧵 Day 27/30.28/ Day 28: ROADMAP What's next, in 3 verbs: FASTER · FINAL · TRUSTLESS.gm Starknians ☀️ For 27 days I told you what @Starknet IS. Today: where it's GOING and I'll split what's already shipping from what's still a bet. 🧵 Day 28/30.29/ Day 29: WHY I BUILD The personal one: my real reasons. No sponsor.gm Starknians ☀️ For 28 days I showed you what @Starknet IS and where it's going. Today is the personal one: why I actually build here. No sponsor. My real reasons. 🧵 Day 29/30.30/ Day 30: THE RECAP (this thread) That's the power we spent a month on: a chain that proves its work instead of asking you to trust it. The math is already solved. This isn't an ending, it's a starting line. Thank you for building STARKtember with me. 🫡 Day 30/30 🟣 END
