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Devnet: Upgraded successfully! ✅
The Mina Devnet was successfully upgraded today, putting us in great stead for the upcoming Mainnet Upgrade, now scheduled for September 3rd, 2026 🙌
This was the last end-to-end rehearsal, mirroring Mainnet conditions and serving as a confidence check before the upgrade. Mesa has been deployed in full, and node operators, developers and exchanges are invited to test their infrastructure against the network.
A huge shoutout to everyone who has supported the Road to Mesa so far! 🙏
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Today, we’re proposing a major update to our $STRK delegation program 🚨
After two rounds focused on expanding reach and bringing more validators into Starknet staking, the next phase shifts from breadth to depth.
The goal: build a stronger, more reliable, and more engaged validator set as Starknet moves toward decentralization.
Under the proposed Round 3 structure:
> delegation would go to up to 31 validators, compared to 130+ before,
> selected validators would typically receive between 5M and 20M STRK, compared to 2M to 5M STRK in previous rounds.
This reflects the growing expectations for Starknet validators: rigorously testing releases, maintaining high availability, staying up to date with protocol upgrades, providing feedback, participating in staking discussions, and eventually supporting 24/7 on-call operations as decentralized validation goes live.
We’re looking for feedback on the proposal, so feel free to jump into the discussion 👇
community.starknet.io/t/upda…
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The Mina ecosystem just got another browser wallet 🙌
Clorio Connect is now live on Chrome and Firefox, featuring:
✅zkApp support
✅Multi-account management
✅Ledger integration
Learn more 👇 minaprotocol.com/blog/clorio…
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Want a say in Starknet's direction?
The Foundation is looking for new governance delegates and distributing 1.7B STRK in voting power to the people who want to influence protocol decisions.
Applications are open now.
→ Apply here: airtable.com/appQVOyi21x4PVW…
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Mesa Trail is a GO! ✅
The test network has been deployed, the first blocks have been produced, and Mesa Trail participants are preparing to kick off testing on Monday, June 1st! 🧱
The program aims to validate the automated upgrade process and all Mesa functionality under real network conditions, as well as gather valuable feedback ahead of the upcoming mainnet upgrade.
👉 If you’d like to take part, join #mesa-upgrade-testnet on Discord: discord.gg/DJRt2TseQ9
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Everyone’s talking about how crypto is over.
Meanwhile, people who are extremely good at math keep building me.
I trust them.
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You don’t need to go offchain to trade TradFi assets.
You can trade them right now on Starknet:
✅ Gold
✅ Silver
✅ EUR/USD
✅ NASDAQ-100
✅ S&P 500
✅ Brent crude oil
Just use @extendedapp.
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Manlets, you can now access STRK directly.
STRK is live on @Solana via @NEARPROTOCOL Intents.
Already supported on:
> @JupiterExchange for spot trading with best execution
> @MeteoraAG for liquidity + swaps
BREAKING: STRK, the @Starknet token, is now live on Solana via @NEARProtocol Intents 🔥
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BREAKING: STRK, the @Starknet token, is now live on Solana via @NEARProtocol Intents 🔥
Starknet has 8 daily active users, 10 daily transactions, and still somehow has a 1b MC and 15b FDV
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Send it straight to 0
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STARKs vs. SNARKs and the Quantum Threat
Famously, STARKs are post-quantum secure but SNARKs break by quantum computers. Why?
I'm referring here to the elliptic curve SNARKs, the kinds most of you are familiar with (like Groth16).
A SNARK uses a "proving key" secret to allow the prover to answer a certain question. The way the secret is created is by repeating many times a certain math operation.
A good analogy is that you start with a Rubik's cube and do a certain operation (say, twisting one side of it + rotating the cube in your hand). Then, you repeat it many times, a million billion gazillion many times. The exact number of times you do that operations -- that's the secret. Then, you present the messed up Rubik's cube for the whole world to view.
Now, if you could look at the cube and answer how many times the operation was done to reach this current state, you break the SNARK.
One way to do it is take a Rubik's cube and start messing around with it, counting how many times you do the operation till you reach the configuration posted publicly. But that takes a lot of time (a million billion gazillion steps).
Aha, but a quantum computer is this really smart computer that can look at the cube and spit out the number: 112,302,305,166 times for example. And with this answer, the SNARK is broken.
OK, what about a STARK?
In this case, to break a STARK you have to "break a hash".
A hash works something like this: You take a Rubik's cube, do one of those operations. Then you write the pattern on a paper, fold it up, cut it up, permute the squares in a crazy way, and post them on a new Rubik's cube. Then you do another operation on the Rubik's cube, and then again move to the paper. And so on and so forth.
The important point is this: Rather than doing only one kind of operation (mathematically, a "group operation") in the case of a SNARK, with a STARK you mix a large number of very different operations, that lack connection and structure.
And this mixing, of many things, is what confuses computers, both classical and quantum, and saves the day.
THE END.
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Starknet, developed by @StarkWareLtd is built on verifiability and security. Market Cap: Approximately $800 million
It is a Validity Rollup (zk-rollup) built on Ethereum. This structure allows transactions to be calculated off-chain and then verified using STARK (Scalable Transparent Argument of Knowledge) proofs and sent to the Ethereum main chain. @Starknet
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