Current situation of the Starkware ecosystem

Idanofrat introduces himself as the CTO, CPO, and co-founder of Fireblocks.
He hopes to inspire entrepreneurs to continue pursuing their own dreams in the ongoing winter of the crypto world.
Fireblocks is a full-featured platform that helps businesses easily and securely establish blockchain-based services that are easier to manage. Its clients are spread across the world and come in various types.
By the end of 2017, newcomers started getting involved in cryptocurrency trading, and experienced attackers immediately saw an opportunity. It is estimated that they have successfully stolen over $1 billion worth of cryptocurrencies.
When founding Fireblocks, Idanofrat, Michael, and Pavel carefully studied the crypto space at that time, conducted interviews with 50 companies, and then developed a set of solutions.
Fireblocks has now achieved tremendous success, with over 1500 clients and countless investments, enjoying a global reputation.
Idanofrat hopes to inspire more entrepreneurs with the success story of Fireblocks, showing that they can also succeed in the crypto world.

Elias Tazartes and Clément Waler discuss the Kakarot project based on EVM.
They believe that the Cairo VM is the scalability dream on Ethereum today.
Cairo has a popular network effect and a competitive advantage.
The main difference between Cairo and CairoVM is that EVM is a stack machine architecture, while Cairo VM is a register architecture.
Transactions need to be executed repeatedly on EVM, while in Rollups, they only need to be executed once and generate validity proofs.
Kakarot will rewrite transactions on Ethereum and send them to the Starknet network.
Users can deploy smart contracts and interact with them using regular tools from Metamask to Foundry.

Eric Wall is a board member of the Remote Brooks Foundation.
5 days ago, the largest block in the history of the Bitcoin blockchain was mined, with a size of 4MB, larger than the previous largest block of 2.8MB in 2015.
In 2021, among Bitcoin maximalists, Atroite will receive a lot of cheers and excitement because many new features are expected.
- In fact, the spectacular utilization is not simple, so the usage rate of Teapot is not high.
KC Rottermore invented the Order System, which allows arbitrary amounts of data to be stored on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Bitcoin script is a stack-based programming language, with each stack element having a maximum size of 512KB, and the maximum transaction size is 500KB.
Eric Wall himself is not a programmer, but he knows how to utilize the Bitcoin script programming language.

The host asked the audience about their ownership of ENS domains, ENS handles, and ZK badges.
Ben introduces Statnet ID, a service that allows users to create on-chain identities on Statnet.
Adrian introduces Sismo, an art versioning protocol that uses ZK proofs to protect the privacy of wallet addresses.
Makoto introduces ENS, a method of associating host names with ETH addresses.
Stanis introduces the Lens protocol, which allows users to create their own social profiles and attach ENS, Sismo, and other social identities to them.
The author explains the advantages of Web 3 identities and how they benefit users.
Ben reiterates that everything users do will be saved on the blockchain, so anyone can extract information from it.

Welcome to Tel Aviv! The market may have changed, but there have always been passionate builders here, which is inspiring.
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