Ilya from the StarkNet product team presents a detailed proposal for decentralizing StarkNet, focusing on addressing censorship issues inherent in a centralized roll-up architecture. The proposed decentralized protocol consists of four key layers: decentralized staking, L2 consensus using a battle-tested proof-of-stake method (Tendermint), decentralized proving, and L1 state updates. Ilya outlines the importance of each layer, the technical challenges involved, and the innovative “recursive strands” method designed to optimize proving and merging proofs before posting them on L1. The talk emphasizes the need for a decentralized system to prevent censorship and ensure the protocol’s integrity and security.
Online Sessions
STARK @ Home 30: Why Cairo 1.0?
In this session of STARK @ Home, we invited Vitalik Buterin to discuss the creation of new programming languages. We’ll review Cairo 1.0 and answer the questions of why it was created, what one should pay attention to when creating a new language, and which special features it has.
STARK @ Home 29: The Future of Blockchain Property Rights via Account Abstraction
Blockchains are transparent, public ledgers that hold immense financial value and have relied on specific public key cryptography (PKC) protocols to ensure property rights for their users. For all their benefits in terms of simplicity and safety, PKCs are clunky and limited and make for a pretty lousy user experience. Enter “Account Abstraction” (AA), a … Read more
STARK @ Home 28: Unlocking the Magic
The Magic The Gathering (MTG) saga began long ago, when Dr. Richard Garfield created – while working on his PhD in Combinatorics – the very first trading card game (TCG).
Magic The Gathering remains one of the greatest TCGs of all time—beloved by mages, scribes, and adventurers alike. (Blockchain trivia: The now infamous Mt. Gox Exchange crypto exchange started in 2006 as an exchange for MTG cards!).
STARK @ Home 26: Shafi Goldwasser and the Amazing Untold Invention Story of ZK
Watch this special episode of STARK @ Home with Professor Shafi Goldwasser, 2012 Turing Award Laureate, talking with Eli Ben-Sasson about the amazing untold story of the origin of Zero Knowledge and Interactive Proofs which she co-invented.
STARK @ Home 25: Warp Away! From Solidity to Cairo
Starknet is up and running on Mainnet. But is it EVM compatible? Can you deploy your Solidity contract on Starknet? The answer is Yes, with Warp.
