Today I welcomed my brother @avihu28 at Avnu headquarters.

GM player This is how fast I log into @LootSurvivor the moment I wake up ⚡️🎮

🎮 The online tournament starts this Friday! Participate in the ELO leaderboard tournament for *Sorcerer's Duel*, a 2-hour event. The top 10 players will receive fantastic rewards. 📅 Friday, December 19th 🕒 11:30 PM UTC This tournament is co-organized with @suragamingteam. (Prize distribution details will be announced later.) Take action now: 📲 Download the game: 💬 Join Discord:

Ensuring Starknet's security and maintaining liquidity? @Re7Labs just enabled the ability to borrow USDC using staked BTC as collateral 🙌

We've partnered with the Starknet Foundation to launch new educational resources: Cairo Tutorials for EVM Developers This tutorial series aims to help Solidity developers reuse their existing mental models of storage, access control, arithmetic security, and foundry testing, and apply them to developing Cairo smart contracts on Starknet. Some of Starknet's innovations may surprise Solidity developers. For example, all accounts are smart accounts and there is no property equivalent to `msg.value`. This tutorial series will gradually introduce these surprising aspects as you learn, making the learning experience feel more like a reuse of existing knowledge rather than being overwhelmed by a large amount of unfamiliar information. As always, you'll see comprehensive and easy-to-understand tutorials. Link in the replies.

This week I spoke at a roundtable discussion on financial regulation and privacy with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Here are some key points: ⏰ Privacy technology is now extremely important and timely for several reasons: 1) Traditional finance (TradFi) is fully embracing tokenization, stablecoins, and payments. As everything moves on-chain, privacy will become an economic necessity (for free market competition and reduced market manipulation). 2) Traditional finance users are tired of data breaches and are looking for better solutions and selective disclosure. 3) A growing number of Americans feel that the U.S. government is “lost its way,” and they agree with @HesterPeirce that regulators should use a scalpel, not a sledgehammer, when it comes to data collection. ‼️ Privacy technology is exciting, and its potential is enough to transform people's lives, both inside and outside the cryptocurrency space. Cryptographic magic like zero-knowledge proofs (zk)—pioneered by veterans of @StarkWareLtd—and let's not forget @EliBenSasson is a co-founder of Zcash, while the co-founders of StarkWare co-invented zk-STARKs and zk-SNARKs—regulators know very little about these technologies, but they're eager to learn more (which is great!). 🙏 We're all cautiously optimistic that U.S. regulators are making progress, preventing individuals using privacy tools (and the developers of those tools) from immediately raising suspicion. Chairman Atkins and Commissioner Peirce agreed in their opening remarks that this status quo is wrong—the first step towards progress is acknowledging the problem. 🌟Finally, a special thank you to a member of the @Starknet community for taking this funny picture of me at the SEC, haha.

Ztarknet: The programmable layer for Zcash. Join us tomorrow at 4 PM UTC to learn how Ztarknet extends Zcash and unlocks its full potential. @AbdelStark (StarkWare) and @zmanian (@iqlusioninc) will answer all your questions. Set a reminder to tune in!

1/ Stake BTC, Maintain Liquidity, Do More. Introducing xyBTC, the first yield-generating Bitcoin asset listed on Starknet. Powered by @endurfi 🧵 @endurfi 2/ What is xyBTC? xyBTC is the collective name for all LST assets offered by Endur. Since Starknet supports four different staking wrappers, Endur has created a code for each wrapper: > xWBTC → Liquid-Staken WBTC > xtBTC → tBTC > xsBTC → SolvBTC > xLBTC → LBTC @endurfi 3/ Therefore, when you stake BTC through Endur, you will receive xyBTC (xWBTC, xtBTC, xsBTC, or xLBTC) as a reward. xyBTC is a liquidity token that represents the BTC you stake and accumulates staking rewards over time. @endurfi 4/ How does it work? > Step 1: Deposit BTC into Endur: > Step 2: Receive xyBTC, your yield-generating BTC token > Step 3: Hold xyBTC; the longer you hold, the more rewards you earn. 1 xBTC deposit = 1 BTC withdrawal + STRK rewards. @endurfi 5/ Because xyBTC is liquid, you can also: > Trade on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) like AVNU > Borrow and lend on Vesu > Provide liquidity on Ekubo > Perform yield mining on Troves You can do much more while staking. @endurfi 6/ For example, you can use xyBTC to borrow USDC on Vesu. Then you can use these USDCs to: > Buy more Bitcoin > Earn yield on platforms like Extended or ForgeYields > Trade > Use it for your real-life needs with Ready Card @endurfi 8/ Therefore, your Bitcoin can now not only be held idle, but also: > Securely run on Starknet > Earn sustainable rewards through staking > Maintain liquidity for trading and DeFi applications All of this runs on Starknet. @endurfi 9/ This is not financial advice. Please do your own research. Liquidity staking carries risks, including the risk of loss.

Dojo Developer Update 📝 In short: Introspection is coming soon, along with more modular features for Torii, Sozo, and Katana. Dojo 2.0 is like Lego bricks—disassemble and build. You can follow the instructions or experiment freely.

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