David Barreto, a member of the Starknet Foundation, stated in a social media post that according to a developer report, the number of developers for Starknet increased by 30% in 2023 (data source from Basecamp 9).

According to ai_9684xtpa monitoring, on June 16th, PANews reported that 10 hours ago, Amber Group recharged 1.2 million STRK to Binance, worth 1.13 million US dollars. This fund went through three transfers and was originally received from the Starknet Mint address at 0x5C2...a7114 on December 6, 2022.

ai_9684xtpa monitoring shows that 10 hours ago, Amber Group recharged 1.2 million STRK to Binance, worth $1.13 million. This fund went through three transfers, the earliest of which was received by address 0x5C2...a7114 from Starknet Mint on December 6, 2022. The price of STRK has fallen 17% in the past seven days and is currently priced at $0.9219.

According to the official announcement from Starknet on the X platform, the Starknet ecological identity and domain protocol, Starknet.id, has now minted over 300,000 .stark domains and seamlessly integrated them into more than 30 DeFi, gaming, and other protocols on Starknet.

1. Hong Kong Bitcoin Spot ETF has held 4,218 BTC since its listing three days ago

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.