Starknet's Rising Star
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One of my favorite projects in crypto is Cartridge, which builds infra for creating and managing onchain games.
They're a star in the Starknet gaming scene because their offerings on the L2 are as extensive as they are useful.
For instance, Cartridge leads development on Dojo, an onchain game engine and toolchain. It offers Katana, a sequencer optimized for gaming. Torii is its indexer and client for gaming worlds built on Dojo. It also boasts Slot, a rollup-as-a-service platform for onchain games. And last but not least is the Cartridge Controller, which is a gaming specific smart contract wallet plugin for easy player onboarding.
When you bring all of these pillars together, game devs can readily build really inexpensive, high performance, and low latency games atop Starknet.
All that said, we saw a perfect example of the early possibilities here this week when Cartridge debuted Flippyflop, a tile flipping game, as part of a planned Starknet stress test.
Using Slot, Cartridge Controller, and beyond, Flippyflop worked like a charm and facilitated a surge of millions of transactions on Starknet, leading to the network's transactions per second (TPS) peaking at 857, a new record in Ethereum's L2 ecosystem.
It was through this app that Starknet was able to better demonstrate its capabilities, and it was through Cartridge's infra stack that such an app was made possible.
When you zoom out, its a big win for Starknet to have this kind of gaming infra available on its chain. A lot of cool games are on the horizon here. And zooming out even further, Cartridge's approach can accelerate crypto gaming in general by making it simple to onboard and engage with onchain games — don't sleep on the Starknet gaming scene accordingly!
📰 General news
- ENS is preparing to add "Tap to Connect" support via XMTP
- Magic Eden is deploying on the Abstract L2 and unveiled $TestME claims
- Nouns Movie is now open for viewing on X
- The SEC motioned to dismiss Brian Frye's and Jonathan Mann's "Are art NFTs securities?" complaint
🎨 Cryptoart & music
- Art Blocks announced a new partnership and artist residency with OpenSea
- BottoDAO is presenting a p5.Botto exhibition in February 2025
- Zora has distributed over 10,000 ETH worth of protocol rewards to creators
🏆 Digital collectibles
🎮 Decentralized gaming
- Dojo, the onchain game engine project, announced its Sovereign Worlds feature
- Duper is launching its Season 3 gameplay on Abstract
- Eternum is hosting an onchain battle royale next week
- HyperLoot announced Project Zero, a new fully onchain game built on MUD
- Immutable received a Wells Notice from the SEC
- Kamigotchi added +2.5k new Kamis to its Gacha pool
- Nifty Island is wrapping up its Play-to-Airdrop campaign
- Nouns Esports announced its departure from the Dota 2 scene
- Pudgy Penguins announced the Pudgy Party mobile game
- Sky Mavis, the creators of Axie Infinity, introduced EIP-7695 for NFT ownership delegation
📱 Onchain social
- Ethereum Follow Protocol reached +11.1k list minters in its first month
- Hey, a social app on Lens, launched custom lists
- Orb, another Lens social app, just shipped a series of feature updates
🪙 NFTfi
- Infinex raised $67.7 million in its Patron NFT sale
- Relay added support for Bitcoin bridging (great for Ordinals traders)
- Jpegs.fun integrated with Tensor to unlock instant NFT trading
🌐 Virtual worlds
- Decentraland is preparing to host the next Decentraland Music Festival
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