June 20 (Cointime) - Interest in the zkEVM sector, including Polygon's zkEVM, StarkNet, and zkSync Era, has increased, with daily active addresses and Total Value Locked (TVL) on the rise. This growth can be partly attributed to the anticipation of token AirDrops, but activity on the Polygon zkEVM has not been driven solely by this.

The integration could enable projects building on Starknet to detect zero-day cyber-attacks, hacks, and vulnerabilities before they first impact, and proactively detect other significant real-time risks across categories such as financial, governance, technology, and community. Supporting Starknet will enable zero-time onboarding and a more secure Web3 environment for any project, institution, platform or brand that chooses to partner with Hypernative, by providing out-of-the-box always-on monitoring, vulnerability detection and automated incident response. Additionally, this support opens the way for future integration of wallet, data and payment providers to leverage Hypernative chain-wide data to detect malicious behavior and leverage it to build better and more secure products.

As shown in the Starknet documentation, the upcoming Starknet v0.12.0 version will focus on improving network throughput to improve scalability and transaction latency. To achieve this, a new Rust implementation will be introduced for the Sequencer. The Sequencer contains more efficient local storage and critical path logic, which aims to significantly reduce the waiting time for transaction confirmation and solve network congestion issues.

Polygon's zkEVM activity has been trailing behind other protocols like StarkNet and zkSync Era, which could have an impact on the protocol's future growth. However, despite this, Polygon's usage and MATIC market cap have not been affected. Messari's data shows that the relationship between Polygon's cumulative market capitalization and user base can be categorized into three distinct phases: Growth, Deviation, and Maturation. Recently, MATIC's price has experienced a significant drop, with its RSI indicating that momentum is currently with MATIC sellers.

Starknet, an open-source framework that aims to provide scalability and privacy to decentralized applications (dApps) built on Ethereum, has experienced significant growth in various DeFi apps on the network over the past few months. Its total value locked (TVL) has recently reached a new all-time high of $10.49 million, a ten-fold increase from $1.449 million at the beginning of March.

May 8 (Cointime) - Starknet has warned its followers on social media that there are many fraudulent accounts claiming that they are offering token launches and airdrops. The company has affirmed that any account making such claims is fake, and people should conduct their own research (DYOR) before investing in any cryptocurrency. They also recommend reporting suspicious activity in their #scam-report Discord channel.

Alchemy, which provides tools for software developers to build apps for blockchains, released a public version of its platform for StarkNet – seen as a project to watch because of the combination of two hot technologies, zero-knowledge cryptography and account abstraction.

May 3 (Cointime) -  Argent X, a browser wallet for the Starknet ecosystem, has announced the launch of a new campaign called "Starknet xplorer". The campaign will consist of eight NFT drops over the next eight weeks, and is designed to encourage early interaction with dapps.   

The first NFT drop will be available to claim and mint on May 9th at 23:59 UTC, and a snapshot of all eligible users will be taken at that time.

The Cairo 1.0 panel covered various aspects of StarkNet, Cairo, Sierra, and the ongoing improvements and optimizations of these technologies.