StarkWare Sessions #1 | The StarkNet Fathers Uri Kolodny & Eli Ben-Sasson
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🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes, the frontier is at a crypto conference. We’re returning from our adventures in Tel Aviv with nine exclusive interviews with some of the key players in the StarkNet space.
Wish you could make it to all the crypto conferences, but don't have the time? Don't worry, Bankless brings the frontier to you.
In this episode, we’re talking to Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben-Sasson, the co-founders of StarkWare and the fathers of the StarkNet ecosystem. We take a high-level overview of the emerging network state, and what we can expect from this community looking forward.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
5:00 A Network State
8:00 Starknet Governance
12:30 Technical Minds
15:30 Integrations
18:20 Use Cases
20:30 Looking Forward
23:20 Day in the Life
27:40 Friendship
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Resources:
Uri Kolodny
https://twitter.com/ukolodny
Eli Ben-Sasson
https://twitter.com/EliBenSasson
StarkNet
https://starkware.co/starknet/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and the internet finance. |
| 0:07.1 | And sometimes, that frontier of internet money is found at a conference, which is why |
| 0:10.9 | last weekend I flew out to Tel Aviv, Israel to attend the StarCraft sessions, a two-day |
| 0:15.5 | event hosted by StarCraft to bring the greater StarCraft and StarCraft ecosystem together |
| 0:21.0 | to meet, learn, discuss, and build the future of StarCraft. |
| 0:24.8 | And as you might be able to tell, I have totally lost my voice from doing all of these |
| 0:28.3 | interviews that I've brought back to share with you all here in the Bankless Nation. |
| 0:31.6 | I personally wanted to go to the StarCraft sessions because my understanding and comprehension |
| 0:35.6 | of this StarCraft ecosystem is not as strong as my understandings of other parts of the |
| 0:39.8 | Ethereum ecosystem. |
| 0:41.1 | And this makes sense when you learn about the design choices that StarCraft has made, |
| 0:45.3 | they've built their own developer language and their own virtual machine instead of |
| 0:48.8 | using solidity and the EVM, like most other layer 2s and other alt layer ones out there. |
| 0:54.1 | Why do they do this? |
| 0:55.4 | What benefits does that bring? |
| 0:57.0 | How much friction does that make for developers? |
| 0:59.4 | How do StarCraft developers feel about the protocol they're building on? |
| 1:03.5 | How much ownership does the StarCraft community feel about the platform that they're all |
| 1:07.6 | creating together? |
| 1:09.0 | These questions and many more are the questions that I saw answers for during my short time |
| 1:13.4 | in Tel Aviv and why I wanted to go to StarCraft sessions in the first place. |
| 1:17.5 | And I certainly feel like I've got these questions answered. |
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