Kakarot Monthly News | 20-AUG-2024

Kakarot Zkevm Monhtly Recap

The continuation of Kakarot's journey has begun, and the Kakarot ZkEVM monthly recap is here! now you can find the history of the last monthly journey that you may have missed, KNEWS has created news highlights for you as information & reference regarding the development and ecosystem of kakarot zkevm.

Seed Program Launched, The most interesting thing in this monthly recap update is that Kakarot ZkEVM has announced that they are launching a seed program (scouting ethereum developers), this program aims to embrace all pioneering developers both individually and as part of a project team, bring developers to develop innovative ideas on the kakarot ZkEVM. this program will run for 6 weeks, and some of the support provided by kakarot ZkEVM is and or includes mentorship, marketing support, $5k for selected projects that will be showcased at the Token2049 Singapore Flagship Event!

If you are a developer, either an individual or a project team, you can join the seed program, how to get in? Here you go :

Not only that, Kakarot also gets support from program partners, so you can also get prizes from selected partners:

• Up to a total of 15k $PYTH tokens for the best three integration/dApps leveraging Pyth’s price feed (3.5k $PYTH each) and the top-performing growth dApp with the best metrics (4.5k $PYTH)

• Up to a total of $3k for projects building a DeFi protocol leveraging Pragma’s price feed (e.g., lending & borrowing, stablecoins, perp DEXs, insurance protocols, yield aggregators and others)

• Up to a total of 2.5k $SCRT tokens for the best project utilizing Secret Network’s decentralized confidential computing layer.

Want to know more details about this seed program? Come, join the official Kakarot Zkevm discord channel to get help & read more about the program here…

New Partnership Deployed, In relations with significant developments in the last month, Kakarot has also partnered with various provider platforms as a form of providing long-term infrastructure that can be more supportive which of course provides a better and more powerful experience for developers and users & After last month's recap kakarot announced that they had partnered with pyth network. This aims to boost developers in Kakarot to get real-time price feeds, so By integrating Pyth's low latency price feeds, Kakarot can further enhance the DeFi experience. Pyth's real-time, high-frequency data provides the most accurate market prices, reducing the risks associated with outdated information.

In this monthly recap, we have highlighted Kakarot partnership announcements, including:

• secret network, kakarot has announced their partnership with secret network to unlock new, powerful applications on kakarot ZkEVM chain using Secret's confidential computing tooling & invite all builders on kakarot ZkEVM testnet to explore this solution and develop innovative, never-before-seen use cases, particularly those focusing on privacy, encryption and confidentiality. Learn More Here…

• Pragma Oracle, kakarot have also announced their partnership with pragma oracle allowing the kakarot builder community to leverage their robustness and reliability. Pragma is best way to price anything onchain, with its core infrastructure written in Cairo. also This enables Solidity contracts to interact with pragma core Cairo contracts. Learn More Here…

• Lava Network, kakarot ZkEVM announced it has partnered with Lava Network to Powering the Kakarot Stack with Lava Network's RPC infrastructure, Lava is a single network for fast, reliable, and cost-effective access to any blockchain. Its first service will be to provide performant RPC solutions for developers and users.

you can also see ZkEVM's kakarot partners in the ecosystem in the infrastructure sector in the infographic below

You can also see how the Kakarot ecosystem is growing rapidly in this kakarot public testnet phase, as seen in the infographic above, it shows that more projects have joined the Kakarot ecosystem space. for that we encourage you to participate in the public testnet and start your journey in kakarot zkevm and become part of the amazing kakarot zkevm community. Don't forget to follow Kakarot News & Ecosystem on X to get updates, follow us here!

Ecosystem Page Launched, as written in the Kakarot ZkEVM public testnet announcement a few months ago, Kakarot has plans to build its own official ecosystem page, which aims to showcase the coolest dApps in a special section of the upcoming Kakarot website, showcasing the creativity of the Kakarot ZkEVM community. Now that the official ecosystem page has been launched, you can explore & discover the Kakarot ZkEVM ecosystem more efficiently! you can visit it here & and to verify the official link is ecosystem.kakarot.org

so you can now discover more ecosystems on 2 ecosystem pages, both official ecosystems and unofficial ecosystems (By KNEWS) providing informative ecosystem information, However, not all of the ecosystems listed have an official relationship with Kakarot Zkevm, so keep using DYOR mode to avoid dangerous things that might arise. If you find any irregularities, report them to the official Kakarot Zkevm discord channel & revoke your wallet access! join the kakarot news telegram channel here to get updates on the kakarot ZkEVM ecosystem.

Mainnet Revealed, reported by the Starkware Ltd blog entitled "Can Kakarot zkEVM grow Starknet's user base? CEO Elias Tazartes explains " refer to the starkware Ltd Blog, Kakarot will launch on Starknet mainnet at the end of 2024. The exact date is not yet known in detail, but this indicates that Kakarot mainnet is getting closer! kakarot zkevm CEO (eliaz tazartes) said :

Also in several conversations with Starkware on the occasion that Kakarot is “bringing the EVM to the Starknet ecosystem”, Kakarot will very likely be deployed on Starknet mainnet in Q4 this year and they also explained in more detail about “the importance for the future of Starknet” To get more details you can refer to starkware X post here!

Recently web3transitions announced that Kakarot ZkEvm will be joining web3 transitions summit as a cohost for the Web3 Transitions Summit with LongHash Venture and YieldGuild, this was also confirmed by kakarot zkevm on August 26, kakarot also said that they will also announce the seed winners of the hackathon which will alsoe featured at the kakarot zkevm booth, as reported by web3transitions tweet, web3 transitions summit will take place on 17 september in singapore.

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