Awesome Starknet

A curated list of awesome Starknet resources, libraries, tools and more.

This list is based on Cairo 1. You can still access the previous archived Cairo 0 Awesome Starknet.

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Contents

• Resources
  • Official
  • Tutorials and Examples
  • Articles and Blogs
  • Papers
  • Cryptography and maths
  • Audits
  • Wallet
  • Block explorers
  • Bridges and on-ramps
• Ecosystem
  • Dapps
  • Community
  • Governance
  • Events
  • Open-source and jobs
• Additional developer resources
  • Developer Tools
  • Starknet SDKs
  • Cairo VMs
  • Node implementations
  • Provers
  • Cairo libraries
  • Dapps libraries
  • Other libraries
  • Sequencers
  • ZkEvm
  • Gaming
  • AI
  • Storage Proofs
  • Security
  • Oracles
  • Indexers
  • Misc
• Open-source projects
  • Defi
  • Gaming
  • Governance
  • Misc
• License

Resources

Official

• Starknet Website - Official Website.
• Starknet Documentation - Official Documentation.
• The Starknet Book - In-depth guide.
• Cairo Documentation - Official Cairo 1.0 Documentation.
• The Cairo Book - In-depth guide to Cairo.
• YouTube channel - Official StarkWare YouTube channel.
• Roadmap - What’s coming next for Starknet.
• SNIPs - Starknet Improvement Proposals (SNIPs) repository.
• starkware-libs/cairo - Official Cairo Github repository.

Tutorials and Examples

• Starknet by Example - Collection of examples from beginner concepts to advanced.
• Cairo by Example - Introduction to Cairo, with simple examples.
• Starklings - Interactive tutorial to get you up and running with Cairo v1 and Starknet.
• Node Guardians - Cairo 1.0 interactives tutorials.
• Starknet messaging tutorial - Detailed tutorial to test messaging with Anvil and Katana.
• WTF Starknet - English and Chinese tutorials.

Articles and Blogs

• Starknet Blog Posts - Official blog.
• Developers Blog - Official Developers Blog.
• Starknet research hub - The place to learn more about the Starket ecosystem and stay-up-to-date with the latest news.
• Cairopractice - Cairo blog.

Papers

• Cairo – a Turing-complete STARK-friendly CPU architecture - Cairo Whitepaper
• A verified algebraic representation of Cairo program execution - Proof Cairo's soundness using the Lean proof assistant.

Cryptography and maths

• Vitalik's STARKs series.
  • STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials
  • STARKs, Part 2: Thank Goodness it’s FRI-day
  • STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds
• Video: zk-STARKs Uncovered - Eli Ben-Sasson's Intense Masterclass, Basecamp Cohort.
• Video: STARK 101 Workshop
• Video: Stark @ Home
• STARK Math: The Journey Begins - Starkware's series of blog posts explaining the theory behind STARKs.
  • Arithmetization I
  • Arithmetization II
  • Low Degree Testing
  • A Framework for Efficient STARKs
• ethSTARK Documentation - Computational integrity of STARKs explanation.
• STARK Paper
• FRI Protocol
• DEEP-FRI Protocol
• Aurora - Transparent Succinct Arguments for R1CS.
• STARK: Endgame

Audits

• Audit providers
• Nethermind Audits

Wallet

• Braavos
• Argent X
• Metamask Snap

Block explorers

• Voyager
• Starkscan
• Viewblock
• OKLink
• Stark Compass - Open source explorer

Bridges and on-ramps

• Starkgate - The official bridge.
• Bridges and on-ramps - List of bridges and on-ramps.

Ecosystem

Dapps

• Starknet Ecosystem - The community-driven initiative to showcase projects and teams building.
• Dappland - Discover dapps.

Community

• Starknet Community Forum - Official forum.
• Discord - Official Discord.
• Twitter - Official tarknet Twitter.
• Telegram Core Stars - Cairo Core Stars Pharaohs group.
• Online communities - List of online communities.

Governance

• Starknet Governance - Official Governance page.
• Snapshot proposals - Snapshot proposals.
• Community discussions
• Starknet Foundation - Introduction to the Starknet Foundation.
• Starknet Foundation committees - Introduction to the Starknet Foundation committees.

Events

• Upcoming events - List of upcoming events.
• StarknetCC - Starknet Community Conference.
• Starknet Summit

Open-source and jobs

• Keep Starknet Strange - Starkware Exploration team to kickstart exciting projects.
• OnlyDust - Contribute to innovative projects.
• Ecosystem Jobs board - Find a job with the best teams.
• Nethermind Jobs - Join Nethermind's remote-first, close-knit crew of builders and tech professionals.
• Equilibrium Labs - Explore the R&D company behind Pathfinder.

Additional developer resources

Developer Tools

• Starknet developer tools - Official developer tools documentation.
• Setting up your environment - Environment setup guide.
• Starkli - The recommended CLI.
• Scarb - The recommended build toolchain and package manager.
• Vscode Cairo extension - Official Cairo extension for VSCode with diagnostics, go-to-definition, completion and more.
• Vim plugin for Scarb projects
• Starknet Foundry - Toolchain for smart contracts development, testing and deployment.
  • Starknet Foundry Forge Template
• Starknet Remix - The official Starknet plugin for Remix, a browser-based IDE without the need for any installation.
• Starknet Devnet - Local testnet.
• Katana - High performance sequencer that can be used as a local testnet.
• Starknet Hardhat plugin - The Starknet Hardhat plugin.
  • starknet-hardhat-example
• docker-cairo - Multi-arch Docker images with Cairo binaries.

Starknet SDKs

• starknet.js - Javascript library.
• starknet.py - Python library.
• starknet-rs - Rust library.
  • starknet-rs-example
• starknet.go - Golang library.
• starknet-jvm - Library for JVM languages (java, kotlin and others).
• starknet.dart - Dart library for mobile.

Cairo VMs

• cairo-vm - Rust implementation of the Cairo VM.
• cairo-vm-go - Golang implementation of the Cairo VM.
• cairo-vm_in_go - Another Golang implementation.
• cairo-zig - Zig implementation of the Cairo VM.

Node implementations

• Juno - Golang full-node implementation.
• Papyrus - Rust full-node implementation.
• Pathfinder - Rust full-node implementation.
• Deoxys - Substrate full-node implementation.
• Beerus - Rust light-client implementation.

Provers

• StarkEx - Starkware verifier.
• STONE - Prover and verifier for STARKs
• sandstorm - Cairo prover powered by miniSTARK.
• awesome-prover-mechanisms - Awesome list of resources for prover mechanisms in the zkrollup ecosystem.

Cairo libraries

• OpenZeppelin contracts-cairo - OpenZeppelin Contracts in Cairo.
• Alexandria - Collection of useful algorithms and data structures implemented in Cairo.
• Garaga - Efficient pairing library using polynomial representation of field elements.
• Herodotus cairo-lib - Set of Data Structures, Encoding, Hashers and Utilities for Cairo.
• xoroshiro-cairo - Xoroshiro PRNG implementation in Cairo.
• graffiti - Library for building XML based documents (SVG, HTML, RSS).
• Origami - Dojo's gaming library.

Cairo plugins

• hello-cairo-plugin - Example Cairo plugin.

Dapps libraries

• Starknet React - React hooks library.
• get-starknet - Starknet's official wallet SDK for developers.
• Starknetkit - The wallet SDK for developers on Starknet.
• vue-stark-boil - Vue.js boilerplate.
• starknet-url - Build & parse Starknet URLs.
• starknet-deeplink - Starknet deeplink generator.

Other libraries

• Starknet in Rust - Rust implementation of Starknet execution logic.
• starknet-zig - Starknet library in Zig.
• types-rs - Rust types.
• poseidon-rs - Poseidon Rust library.
• cairo_native - Compiler to convert Sierra to machine code via MLIR and LLVM.
• tree-sitter-cairo - Cairo 1.0 grammar for tree-sitter.
• scure-starknet - Minimal JS implementation of Starknet cryptography.
• wasm-cairo - Wasm bindings for Cairo.
• starknet-abigen-rs - Cairo ABI parser and generator in Rust.

Sequencers

• Madara - Sequencer based on substrate.
• Gomu Gomu no Gatling - Benchmark tools for sequencers.

ZkEvm

• Kakarot - ZK-EVM type 3 written in Cairo.

Gaming

• Dojo Engine - The Provable Game Engine.
  • Awesome Dojo - Curated list of awesome Dojo resources.
  • dojo-examples - Dojo examples.
• Starknet Unity SDK

AI

• Gizatech
  • Orion - Provable Machine Learning framework.
  • Tic-Tac-Stark - Provable Tic-Tac-Toe AI model using Orion and Cairo.
• neural-network-cairo - Neural Network implementation from scratch for MNIST.
• drive-ai - Self driving car AI with Dojo.

Storage Proofs

• Herodotus - Secure On-Chain Data Access Solutions using Storage Proofs.

Security

• Caracal - Static Analyzer for smart contracts.
• semgrep-cairo-rules - Semgrep rules for Cairo 1.0.
• Toth - Security toolkit (bytecode analyzer, disassembler, decompiler, symbolic execution, SBMC).
• Underhanded Cairo
• An introduction to Cairo 1 smart-contracts security
• Under the hood of Cairo 1.0: Exploring Sierra
• Adventures with Account Abstraction – Risks and Mitigations in __validate__
• Auditing Cairo 1.0 Contracts
• Video: Cairo Security (Peteris Erins)
• Awesome Starknet Security - Curated list of awesome Starknet security resources.

Oracles

• Pragma - Decentralized, transparent and composable oracle network.

Indexers

• Checkpoint - GraphQL indexing library.
• Apibara - Open source indexer.
• dipdup-io/starknet-indexer

Misc

• Cairo Utils - Web-based utility converter.
• StarkTx - StarkTx Transaction Decoder.
• rika-chan - CLI toolkit.
• jin - Contract storage dumper.
• kipt - Collections of Lua scripts to manage contracts.
• rifle - Blocktime estimator in Rust.
• crypto-ecosystems/starknet - Starknet raw ecosystem data.

Open-source projects

Defi

• Satoru - Synthetics platform, inspired by GMX v2 design.
  • zohal-interface - Zohal's Satoru interface.
• YAS - YAS is Yet Another Swap.
• Avnu Contracts - Liquidity aggregator written in Cairo.
  • Avnu SDK
• Cygnus - Cygnus contract.
• Carmine Protocol - Carmine Options AMM.
• 10kswap Contracts - Decentralized ZK Rollup AMM.
• ZkLend v1 - ZkLend v1 core contracts.

Gaming

• Bibliotheca DAO
  • Realms World - Realms Autonomous World.
  • Eternum
  • Loot Survivor - Onchain arcade.
• Roll Your Own
• Stark-lander
• PixeLAW
• Tsubasa

Governance

• Carmine Governance - Carmine Governance contracts.

Misc

• Tokei - ERC20 token streaming protocol.
• Focus Tree - Focus Tree Contracts.
• Starknet.id - On-chain identity.
• Carbon Protocol - Carbon Protocol written in Cairo.
• StarkRevoke - Revoke your ERC20 and ERC721 approvals.

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