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The first STRK virtual currency fraud case in Changzhi, Shanxi was successfully solved. Recently, the Xiangyuan County Public Security Bureau's Network Security Brigade received a report from a victim claiming that 40,000 STRK coins obtained through the STRK official development program were fraudulently taken by others. With the support of the Changzhi City Public Security Bureau's Network Security Support Team, Xiangyuan Network Police finally identified the suspect who stole the coins as a person named Lan from Meizhou, Guangdong.

The Starknet Foundation announced the launch of the Starknet Advancement Program to support established teams in launching games on the Starknet mainnet or application chain. The program will match the network fees incurred by the game and credit them to the game developer's account, with a maximum reward of $1 million per game within a year. The first 20 game applications will open on April 26th and close on May 17th, lasting for three weeks.

Starknet Foundation announced on the X platform that they will be airdropping STRK tokens to three groups of users, including:1. Stakers: The Foundation originally planned to distribute STRK tokens to eligible stakers through the staking protocols used by users. Although many protocols were unable to complete the distribution task, the currently supported protocols or entities include: Lido, Rocket Pool, BloxStaking, SharedStake, stakefish, Consensys, and Ankr Staking. Stakers who stake through these protocols and are recognized by the Starknet Foundation as eligible for Provisions will be able to claim their STRK tokens directly through the Provisions portal.2. StarkEx users who were mistakenly identified as VeVe users: Immutable users who were identified as non-VeVe users in the update list received by the Foundation from Immutable will be able to claim their STRK tokens through the portal.3. VeVe users: Discussions with VeVe regarding token distribution are ongoing.

Starknet announced on the X platform that version V0.13.1.1 will be released soon based on the needs of its users. The highlight of this upgrade is a significant reduction in contract declaration fees, which will be reduced to 1/30 of the previous cost, effectively lowering the cost for developers deploying contracts on Starknet. The upgrade schedule for 0.13.1.1 is as follows: - Sepolia Testnet: April 8th (Monday); - Mainnet: April 15th (Monday). Starknet reminds all users running full nodes to upgrade their node software as soon as possible. Currently, Juno V0.11.4 and Pathfinder V0.11.5 both support Starknet V0.13.1.1.

The Starknet Goerli testnet will be deprecated on April 11th. Users and developers can migrate to Starknet Sepolia. The methods to obtain Starknet Sepolia tokens include using Sepolia StarkGate for cross-chain from L1 and using Sepolia Faucets.

The Starknet Foundation is introducing optimizations parallel to the Ethereum Dencun upgrade aimed at significantly reducing transaction fees on layer 2 networks. These measures include the release of version 0.13.1 of Starknet today, which will utilize EIP-4844 after Dencun goes live on the mainnet tomorrow. This update will transition Starknet from using the costly "calldata" method for data transactions to the cost-effective "blob" transaction type, providing a direct avenue for cost reduction. These blob transactions, also known as EIP-4844 (or proto-danksharding), are planned to go live on the Ethereum mainnet and activate the Dencun upgrade at 13:55 UTC tomorrow, 269568 time. Blobs will become an additional feature on the network, improving data availability without affecting existing Ethereum infrastructure, thus enabling cheaper transactions on layer 2 aggregators like Starknet.

The Starknet Foundation announced the establishment of a Game Committee, which is composed of six experts and is responsible for promoting the growth of games on Starknet. The committee's role includes analyzing, developing strategies, and recommending plans to expand Starknet's gaming ecosystem, the success of which will be measured by metrics such as daily active users, retention rates, and revenue. The committee members are appointed by the Starknet Foundation's board of directors and include Henri Lieutaud from the Starknet Foundation, Oli Freuler from Starkware, Gabin Marignier from Focus Tree, Chris Lexmond from Unstoppable Games, Tarrence van As from Cartridge, and Loaf from Loot Realms.

The market shows STRK has broken through $2 and is now trading at $2.26, with a daily increase of 22%. The market fluctuations are significant, so please be prepared for risk control. STRK's market value has reached $1,595,694,322, with a 24-hour trading volume of $669,345,635.

Polygon's Ethereum-compatible solution based on STARK, Polygon Miden, will launch its Builder testnet on March 24.

According to Dune data, the Ethereum Layer2 scaling solution Starknet has bridged a user volume of 1,223,805 and a bridged storage value of 874,732 ETH.

According to Voyager data from the Starknet blockchain browser, currently over 444 million STRK airdrop tokens have been claimed, accounting for approximately 75.7% of the total airdrop amount.

Nethermind Starknet has announced the launch of Juno V0.10.0 on the X platform. The experimental point-to-point (P2P) synchronization of Juno can be used on the Sepolia test network, allowing Juno nodes to directly connect and synchronize with each other, with the aim of reducing reliance on centralized infrastructure.

The Starknet development team Nethermind Starknet announced on the X platform that Juno's experimental peer-to-peer (P2P) synchronization can be used on the Sepolia test network. This feature allows Juno nodes to directly connect and synchronize with each other, aiming to reduce reliance on centralized infrastructure.

Dune data shows that the total value locked (TVL) in Starknet bridge is 872,657 ETH, with a total of 1,223,166 user addresses bridged. The TVL in zkSync bridge has exceeded 3.1 million ETH, reaching 3,116,201 ETH. In addition, the TVL in Arbitrum bridge is 3,444,663 ETH, Optimism bridge is 735,986 ETH, and Base bridge is 337,233 ETH.

StarkWare announced that in response to feedback from ecosystem friends and partners, it will adjust its STRK token unlocking plan for early contributors and investors in a more gradual manner. StarkWare is committed to winning the trust of the community by building excellent technology that embodies the value of blockchain and stands the test of time. During the initial development of Starknet, the support of early contributors and investors was crucial for StarkWare. According to the original plan, the approximately 1.3 billion tokens (about one-third of the total) held by these early participants were expected to be unlocked on April 15. However, after reviewing recent community feedback, StarkWare decided to make the unlocking schedule more gradual. The revised plan is as follows: the 13.4% (134 million tokens) originally planned to be unlocked on April 15 will be adjusted to only unlock 0.64% (64 million tokens). After that, 0.64% (64 million tokens) will be unlocked each month until March 15, 2025, followed by unlocking 1.27% (127 million tokens) each month for the next 24 months until March 15, 2027. According to the new plan, by the end of 2024, the amount of tokens that early contributors and investors will unlock will be reduced from the original plan of 2 billion to 580 million. By the end of 2025, an additional 1.4 billion tokens will gradually be unlocked, followed by unlocking 1.5 billion by the end of 2026, and 380 million will be unlocked by March 15, 2027.

According to Dune data, the TVL of the cross-chain bridge storage of Ethereum Layer 2 expansion solution StarkNet has exceeded 870,000 ETH, reaching 872,302 ETH as of now. The number of users participating in bridge transactions has exceeded 1.22 million, currently at 1,223,356.

According to The Data Nerd, wallet 0x9a1 (possibly belonging to Flow Traders) received 5 million STRK from Starknet. Afterwards, they deposited 3.6 million STRK (approximately $14 million) into Binance and Crypto.Com, and sold 860,000 STRK for $2.44 million on a DEX. Currently, they still hold 50,000 STRK tokens.

According to the latest data, the number of STRK claimants has exceeded 500,000, reaching 503,457 at the time of writing. According to information on the website, the total number of eligible users for STRK token claims is about 1.059 million, which means that the current proportion of users who have claimed tokens is over 47.5%. In addition, the number of STRK tokens claimed so far has reached 429,806,101.

L2beat data shows that the TVL (total value locked) of Ethereum's layer 2 scaling solution, Starknet, has experienced a sudden increase today due to STRK staking, reaching a current high of $1.27 billion, with a 7-day increase of 581.14%. Currently, the TVL has surpassed Base to become the fourth-largest L2 in terms of locked-in value. Among them, STRK staking accounts for 83.54% of its TVL.