First Cairo Bootcamp

Astro launched the first Chinese Cairo Bootcamp on May 21st. The event aims to help more Chinese developers quickly master the Cairo language and build products on Starknet. This Bootcamp consisted of five sessions. With an overwhelming response, the Bootcamp witnessed more than 200 registrations and an impressive 140+ cumulative participants, averaging over 28 attendees per session.

The topics covered in this session include:

• Introduction to Starknet and Cairo

• Development environment setup

• Deployment of ERC20 and ERC721 tokens on testnet

• Cairo 2.0 syntax

Cryptonerd、Shalom、Max participated in the explanations.

Each class is recorded, and we will upload all the course videos to YouTube soon. Here are the tutorials and related documents we have prepared:

Course documents: https://starknetastro.xlog.app/

Course slides PDF and video replays: https://starknet-astro.super.site/

The first Cairo Bootcamp organized by Astro has come to an end.

On August 3rd, Starknet Astro invited @StarkWareLtd developer Gyanlakshmi to answer questions encountered by Chinese developers in Cairo development 🚀

The Q&A list doc

Cairo-Book Chinese Version

On May 31st, Astro completed the Chinese translation of the Cairo Book and maintained it with regular updates, ensuring that the Chinese version of the Cairo Book can stays synchronized with official updates in time.

And Astro has integrated WASM-Cairo into CairoBook, so we can run Cairo code in the browser. If you also want to build Cairo programs that can run in the browser, please contact us.

At the same time, the WASM-Cairo project won awards at both the Starknet Hackathon hosted by Pragma and the Eth Shanghai Hackathon.

China's First Starknet Workshop in Shanghai

On June 23-24, we held China's first Starknet Workshop in Shanghai to help developers quickly understand the Starknet technology stack and learn advanced content such as Cairo syntax, STARK proof generation, zkEVM, and sequencers.

Surprisingly, besides developers, there were also many Starknet project teams(including four full-chain game teams interested in Starknet) and investors present at the scene. The attendees exceeded 50 people for two consecutive days, and even heavy rain on the second day could not extinguish everyone's enthusiasm for Starknet.🔥

At the workshop, we introduced the online Cairo code editor: Astro Editor.

Advocate Works

Astro insists on promoting the entrepreneurial opportunities of the Cairo language and full-chain games, on-chain AI, contract wallets, and account abstractions on Starknet to individual developers, teams, and startups. Astro already helped some wallet, game, and NFT startups joined the Starknet ecosystem, and in the future, more Chinese development teams will land on Starknet. 🚀

On June 3rd, Type V DAO hosted a Twitter Space with Astro to talk about Starknet and L2.

On July 13th, Astro held a Twitter Space after the Starknet mainnet upgraded to version v0.12, where many Starknet developers and enthusiasts gathered to discuss the Starknet ecosystem.

On July 15th, Astro researcher CynicSong completed a research article titled "The EVM-Compatible Journey of Starknet: Kakarot zkEVM 101" to introduce Kakarot to Chinese readers.

Special thanks to Kakarot CEO Elias and the team for their suggestions and support on this article.

Kakarot is a zkEVM implemented on Starknet using the Cairo language. It simulates the EVM's stack, memory, execution, and other aspects as Cairo smart contracts. Kakarot faces challenges related to compatibility with Starknet's account system, cost optimization, and stability due to the experimental nature of the Cairo language.

Warp is a translator that converts Solidity code into Cairo code, providing compatibility at the high-level language level. Kakarot, on the other hand, provides compatibility at the EVM level by implementing EVM opcodes and precompiles.

On July 21st, Astro's Dev Rel & Researcher Max preached about the Starknet technology stack and ecosystem progress to the developer community LXDAO, which focuses on public goods development. The explanation was mainly based on the Chinese knowledge base completed by Astro.

Future Plans

Astro will hold the Starknet Hacker House in Chengdu from August 21st to 27th. Students will engage in a one-week development and learning program in the learning environment provided by Astro, and are encouraged to build their own Cairo projects during this period. Astro will provide further updates on the specific details and other information in upcoming event articles.

This Starknet Hacker House is part of Global Hacker House, and multiple developer communities will be hosting Hacker House events in various cities in China in August.

Registration link: 🔗

Astro will also launch the second phase of BootCamp in the second half of the year, which will include advanced topics such as account abstraction, full-chain games, STARK prover, and sequencer in Cairo.