The Culture of Starknet with Abdel Bakhta
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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Today, we have a classic LayerZero style episode with nonother than Abdel Bakhta.
Abdel is the Head of Ecosystem at Starkware and is onboarding new species to
the Least Aligned L2, Starknet.
We cover the origins of Starkware and how its culture has evolved, there’s also a ton of Starkware Project Alpha on this episode so stay tuned.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
4:01 Abdel’s Background
11:12 Starkware Beginnings
14:59 Ethereum Alignment Meme
17:53 Starkware Culture Evolution
26:19 Getting to Decentralization
35:32 The Starknet Playbook
39:50 The Stark Dads
47:21 What’s Next
52:38 The Starknet Mafia
57:09 Abdel Focus Areas
1:01:00 Closing Thoughts------
RESOURCES
Abdel Bakhta
https://twitter.com/dimahledba
Starkware
https://starkware.co/
Starknet
https://www.starknet.io/en
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explored the frontier of Starknet. |
| 0:07.0 | Today on the show, if you ever remember listening to my older episodes, which I called |
| 0:10.8 | Layer Zero episodes, no, not Layer Zero The Bridge, |
| 0:14.0 | Layer Zero, the fact that all of these Layer One's are supported by humans, |
| 0:18.1 | supported by people, supported by tribes and cultures. |
| 0:21.3 | That's what we call the Layer Zero here on Bankless. And today we are exploring. and it's a screen name from the Starknet Starkware community. |
| 0:33.2 | And we just talked a little bit about what it means to be inside of the Stark |
| 0:36.8 | Net community. |
| 0:37.8 | Who are these people? |
| 0:39.0 | What is the vibe of the tribe? |
| 0:41.4 | Why did people come to plant their settlement settle into the world of |
| 0:46.5 | Starknet and then also what is exciting in the world of Starknet this is |
| 0:51.5 | this spawned out of the conversation that I had with |
| 0:54.0 | Abdell on Twitter after I made a tweet that I shot from the hip |
| 0:57.5 | calling Starknet the least aligned Ethereum layer two. I explain what I mean by |
| 1:02.4 | that here in this episode but it's not as it seems it was an |
| 1:06.2 | errand tweet I'll call it and we unpacked that a little bit here on the show today. |
| 1:11.8 | So I hope you enjoy this conversation with |
| 1:13.2 | Abdell from Starknet, but first before we get into that conversation a |
| 1:16.4 | moment to talk about some of these fantastic sponsors that make the show |
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