Nov 2024
Monthly Stats
* Voyager, DeFiLlama, Starkscan, DeFi Spring
What’s new in Argent?
🎉 STRK Staking:
Live on Argent with 0% fees!
💳 Card Launch:
The Argent Card went to new heights with a space launch and drone show.
🚀 Argent TG Accelerator:
Officially kicked off with 30+ exiting projects in the pipeline.
💧 Liquid staking:
Launching natively on Argent soon!
Starknet Highlights
🔥 STRK Staking Phase I is live
Starknet leads the way as first L2 to offer staking. 30% of Ethereum outflows are moving to Starknet, the highest of any L2. View chart.
🪙 Starknet v0.13.3 launched on mainnet
Starknet has become the first L2 to optimise blob gas costs. It is now 5x cheaper. This was achieved by compressing user data more efficiently. Read more.
💸 Re7 Capital joins Vesu
New pools from @Re7Capital will boost liquidity and unlock liquid staking strategies on Vesu. Learn more.
🎮 Bountive 2.0: More Strategies, More Rewards
Bountive returns with exciting new strategies, revamped points and a new referral program, which gives you access to exclusive future raffles and rewards.
Last week's highlights:
- ✅ 3 raffles completed, powered by Vesu and ZkLend.
- 💰 Participants locked in $30k TVL across ETH, STRK, and USDC.
- 🧑🤝🧑 ~40 users participated, earning a total of ~230k points.
This week's raffles:
6 active raffles. $323k TVL locked so far, and ~2 days left to join:
- zkLend: USDC (17%), ETH (7%)
- Vesu: USDT (19%), STRK (5.6%)
- Nostra: DAI (23%)
- Bountive Brother Raffle
Participate early to earn double points and boost your changes for future rewards!
More to explore
- Ekubo transactions surge: Monthly transactions on Ekubo, a Starknet-native DEX, are nearing all-time highs. See chart.
- Endur introduces xSTRK: a liquid staking token built by @strkfarm in collaboration with @karnotxyz. See post.
- AVNU introduces DCA: smooth, non-custodial, on-chain dollar-cost averaging (DCA) solution. See post.
- New on-chain metric tracked on L2Beat: User Operations per Second, which focuses on user intent vs. number of transactions needed to fulfil it. This highlights power of account abstraction.
- Starknet ecosystem is growing: 80+ applications and $252M TVL (+550% YTD), driven by STRK token and DeFi Spring. Read summary by @JenniferOvat.
- Starknet moves closer to scaling Bitcoin: @scryptplatform delivers a PoC for a trustless L2-Bitcoin bridge. Learn more.
Oct 2024
Monthly Stats
What’s new in Argent?
📲 Enhanced DeFi:
Manage DeFi investments within Argent Mobile - view risk alerts, APY, incentive details and more.
🔐 Ledger Update:
Clear signing is now live on Argent X and your Ledger.
👀 STRK Staking:
Launching soon on Argent X and Mobile.
⏩ Argent Telegram Wallet SDK:
Check the coding tutorial.
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Starknet Highlights
🔥 New TPS Record Hit
Starknet continues to scale, hitting a new peak of 857 transactions per second (70%+). View chart.
🪙 BROTHER Memecoin launches
Vitalik's response on Starknet TPS milestone sparks new memecoin BROTHER (+87.55% since launch).
💸 OPUS joins DeFi Spring
Opus launched on Mainnet last month. Now offering ~20% APY on Credit Lines. Visit Opus.
🎮 Flippy Flop shatters records on Starknet
The Flippy Flop game brought blockchain fans together on Starknet, showcasing its power in a large-scale, community-driven experiment.
Led by Cartridge, the game showed Starknet’s web2-like experience with an invisible wallet, no gas fees, and no transaction signatures.
Players earned $FLIP tokens by flipping tiles on a massive game board. Starknet thrived under the increased load. Read full revie by Starknet OG.
⚡ 857 peak TPS
🚄 127 TPS sustained
🌀 9.7M transactions
💰 $0.0028 average cost per transaction
More to explore
- Argent launched Telegram Accelerator Program with support from the Starknet Foundation, offering $25K grants and up to $1M in follow-up funding.
- StarkGate v2 Beta is now live on Mainnet. Bridge more tokens to Starknet, check out the new UX, a fiat on-ramp integration, and more
- Layer Akira, Starknet’s first hybrid CLOB DEX, is live on Mainnet.
- Eternum Preseason, a 4x battle royale MMO, kicks off Monday. Split 50K $Lords for sharing Eternum stories across platforms. Learn more.
- Lendasat launched early testing phase -- Bitcoin collateralised loans, powered by DLCs.
Sept 2024
Monthly Stats
What’s new in Argent?
😎 Mobile Invest is back
Access DeFi yield on Starknet within the app. Learn more.
🎁 Argent Gifting
The easiest way to onboard your friends and family into crypto. Start gifting.
🔐 Onchain recovery
Now available on Web Wallet.
👀 Native STRK Staking
Coming soon to Argent X and Mobile.
Starknet Highlights
🔥 503 Peak TPS Achieved
Starknet continues to scale, hitting a new peak of 503 transactions per second. View chart.
🎨 Art Peace Round 2 went live
Be part of the creative community on Starknet. Make art on a large shared canvas. See canvas.
🎲 Starknet game scene is growing
Explore Brewmaster and Diamond Pit, two new exciting releases. Try Brewmaster.
🎁 Argent's New Gifting Dapp
Just over 2 weeks ago, we launched our new Gifting Dapp - the easiest way to onboard your friends and family into crypto, even if they don't have a wallet yet.
- Choose a card design
- Select your token and amount
- Send it in seconds and start exploring Starknet together!
More to explore
- Vesu's Multiply Feature: Leverage flashloans to boost your yield.
- Ekubo’s DCA Algorithm Update: Ekubo just got even more efficient.
- Opus Launches on Mainnet: A new cross-margin autonomous credit protocol is live on Starknet.
- Eli, CEO of StarkWare, shares his vision and values of Starkware.
- Bitcoin & Ethereum Unified: Discover more in this detailed piece by Starknet_OG here.
