After getting Arbitrum’s juicy airdrop, it’s appropriate time to invest your money in another ecosystem for potential airdrop. This ecosystem is STARKNET (by StarkWare).

StarkWare’s total fund raised is 282,5$ million. 9% of the initial token allocation will be granted for Community Provisions.

This article will help to save your time doing extra research on Startk’s projects, so you can directly start interact with the ecosystem with this Guide. All activities that will be shown in this article require you to interact with Starknet Mainnet. And of course remember DYOR. 😇 Check Ecosystem.

I will interact with 1100$ USDT, so I can get nice VOLUME and won’t stuck if I Stake/Farm some of my assets. 🤠

Don’t SWAP more than 200-300$ per time, otherwise SLIPPAGE gonna put a dent in your wallet 😰

There’re some protocols that requires testnet interaction. Faucet LINK, Goerli Bridge to Starknet.

✅ 1. Braavos wallet - 𝓜𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓽

Before we begin our journey in StarkNet, we need download StarkNet compatible wallet. There’re 2 wallets on StarkNet: Braavos and ArgentX. I prefer Braavos, so I will use only interact with it (Braavos’s also planning it’s own token). 🤔

Braavos was created with the goal to make a self-custodial wallet which is easy and reassuring to use as a custodial solution, while not compromising on the huge benefits of decentralization and self-custody of assets. 👉 Download HERE.

Now we need to SET UP/Deploy our Braavos wallet.

The only to SET UP/Deploy the wallet is to transfer some funds, I used Orbiter bridge for that (Orbiter confirmed that will have own TOKEN). 👉 Redirect HERE.

Once you transferred your funds, complete the SET UP/Deploy process directly in your Braavos wallet and that’s all 👌 Now we can proceed warming up process ✅

👉 Discord: braavos

After Braavos’s last update, you can check all your Starknet’s interaction directly from the myBraavos (amount of txs, protocols interactions etc)

✅ 2. StarkGate - 𝓜𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓽

Once we’ve got out wallet, it’s time to transfer our funds in the proper way to the StarkNet by using native bridge.

StarkGate is native the Ethereum↔Starknet token bridge *developed *by StarkWare. Each supported token is associated with an L1 and L2 bridge contracts that are communicating via Starknet's messaging mechanism.

I did 2 transactions with StarkGate (👉 redirect) 😋 550$ USDT each

Due to low gas on morning (05:45 UTC +0), it only took me 10$ for 2 approves + 2 transaction confirms on Ethereum. After 5-10 minutes your funds will appear in your wallet. 🙌

✅ 3. 10kSwap - 𝓜𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓽

10kSwap is an AMM protocol that advances with Ethereum. 10K aims to revolutionize the performance of the AMM protocol by leveraging the rollup feature, bringing lower fees, less friction, and ultimately better liquidity to the L2 world and advance DeFi adoption. 👉 Redirect HERE.

1️⃣ SWAP few times to the different Tokens, increase your interaction with different contracts (proceed with 2-3 swaps)

P.S. Don’t forget to change slippage, ALWAYS before the SWAP

2️⃣ Add some assets to the Liquidity POOL

👉 Discord: 10kSwap

✅ 4. JediSwap - 𝓜𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓽

JediSwap is a fully permissionless and composable AMM on StarkNet (A ZK-Rollup on Ethereum) inspired by Uniswap V2. Users can swap assets instantaneously without losing custody of their funds. JediSwap is led by the Mesh community. 👉 Redirect HERE.

1️⃣ SWAP few times to the different Tokens, increase your interaction with different contracts (proceed with 2-3 swaps) 👻

P.S. Don’t forget to change slippage, ALWAYS before the SWAP

2️⃣ Add some assets to the Liquidity POOL

👉 Discord: JediSwap

✅ 5. Nosta - 𝓜𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓽

Nostra Finance is a permissionless non-custodial lending and borrowing protocol built on StarkNet, one of the most-promising L2 networks on Ethereum. Structured Data. 👉 Redirect HERE.

Due to Alpha version of the dApp, ⚠️ users aren’t able to deposit big amount of the assets, it has amount limit (5$ USDC only) 👇

Deposit as many assets as you can, and borrow some instead 🔰 I deposited: USDC/USDT/DAI/ETH

Once you borrowed BTC just leave it how it is for couple of days…or weeks. ⚖️

👉 Discord: NostraFinance

✅ 6. mySwap - 𝓜𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓽

mySwap is a DeFi platform based on OKExChain, which integrates DEX, NFT, Dao, etc. 👉 Redirect HERE.

1️⃣ SWAP few times to the different Tokens, increase your interaction with different contracts (proceed with 2-3 swaps) 👽

P.S. Don’t forget to change slippage, ALWAYS before the SWAP

2️⃣ Add some assets to the Liquidity POOL (example: USDC/USDT)

👉 Discord: mySwap

✅ 7. Starknet.Id - 𝓜𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓽

StarkNet.ID is an identity provider on Starknet. The protocol allows you to create your Starknet Identity (that can be seen as your on-chain passport) and to attach things to it. 👉 Redirect HERE.

Create your Unique Stark.ID (same with ENS), it will cost approximately 15$ for 1 year.

Create SubDomain as well. It won’t be superfluous 🥁

Steps below require interaction with StarkNet.ID’s testnet 👇

👉 Redirect to the Starknet.id Odyssey Campaign’s HERE. 🎓

Complete 9 tasks on StarkNet Goerli (mint, subscribe, tweet, claim etc).

Once you completed all the steps above, u can redirect to Starknet.ID’s Discord and get 2 roles (for Mainnet Domain: @+5 Letters Club Member / Odyssey Campaign: @Odyssey OG). 👀

👉 Discord: StarknetID

✅ 8. Aspect - 𝓜𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓽

Aspect is the first NFT marketplace to launch on StarkNet mainnet and makes it easy for you to buy, sell and create NFTs at a fraction of the cost of using Ethereum. 👉 Redirect HERE.

Set your profile, fill the BIO.

Find an NFT you like and buy it. 💸

> Then proceed with Selling your NFT, and that’s all 👌🏻

👉 Discord: Aspect

✅ 9. Mint Square - 𝓜𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓽

Mint Square is a leading NFT marketplace which means it has a wide range of features that create an amazing experience for buyers, sellers, and creators. Every NFT collection is indexed and tradeable on Mint Square. This makes it easy for you to find NFTs within the same collection to buy. 👉 Redirect HERE.

Set your profile, fill the BIO, then you can proceed with Minting your OWN NFT.

After minting an NFT, we can proceed with buying.

Find some and make an offer. Wait until the offer is successfully executed 🌀

👉 Discord: MintSquare

✅ 10. StarkNet Forum

A forum for StarkNet community members to discuss technical opportunities, share ideas and collaborate on initiatives. 👉 Redirect HERE.

Create an account on StarkNet forum, interact with it. Create some proposals if you think it’s suitable for ecosystem. Earn some Badges.

Here’s my proposal on Starknet’s Forum.💡

✅ 11. ZKX - 𝓣𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓷𝓮𝓽

ZKX is the first perpetual futures exchange on StarkNet with self custody and true community governance. The protocol is designed to provide further scalability with a decentralized node network, an elevated trading experience and offer perpetual swaps and derivatives to any user on Starknet and Ethereum. 👉 Redirect HERE.

Testnet will begin on 30th of March. Details are in the Discord.

There’s an active campaign on Crew3, where you can get a chance to win Unique NFTs + future $ZKX tokens.

✅ 12. SithSwap - 𝓣𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓷𝓮𝓽/𝓜𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓽

SithSwap is a next-gen AMM on StarkNet featuring instant volatile and stable swaps with ultralow slippage, near-zero fees, and the full security of Ethereum. Total Funding 2,7$ million. 👉 Redirect HERE.

1️⃣ Let’s proceed with the Swaps first. Swap as many assets as you can.

2️⃣ Once you finished your Supply, let’s proceed with Adding Liquidity. Try to Add as many pairs as you can (WBTC/USDC/ETH/DAI)

Since 1.04.2023 SithSwap deployed on Mainnet. So let’s proceed with the same steps as we did above:

• Proceed with multiple Swaps

• Add some LPs to the pools

👉 Discord: SithSwap

✅ 13. zkLend - 𝓣𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓷𝓮𝓽

zkLend is an L2 money-market protocol built on StarkNet, combining zk-rollup scalability, superior transaction speed, and cost-savings with Ethereum’s security. Total Fund rising is 5$ million. The protocol offers a dual solution:

• Artemis: Permissionless service for DeFi users without sacrificing decentralisation

• Apollo: Permissioned and compliance-focused solution for institutional clients

  👉 Redirect HERE.

1️⃣ Let’s begin with “Supply”. Try to supply as many assets as you can (WBTC/USDC/ETH/DAI) ⚪️

2️⃣ Once you finished your Supply, let’s proceed with Borrow. Try to Borrow as many assets as you can (WBTC/USDC/ETH/DAI) 🔴

P.S. After borrowing some assets may not appear on the dashboard

👉 Discord: zkLend

✅ 14. CygnusDAO - 𝓣𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓷𝓮𝓽

Cygnus DAO is a stablecoin lending and leveraged yield farming protocol, with the aim of maximizing profit for both stablecoin savers and liquidity providers in DeFi. That will be great solution to LEND on EVM and borrow on Starknet.

• 👉 Redirect HERE.

Testnet date will reveal soon. 👀

For now, team’s testing the dApp in a closed mode (currently deployed at Polygon), but they let me to test it out :)

They will deploy on Starknet as well:

So for starknet, our contracts are ready, but they were written a few months ago. This month Cairo 1.0 got released, which pretty much changes the whole language, so we need to re-write the contracts. It shouldnt take too long, as it is the same logic, but we havent started doing it yet. Priority to launch on Starknet is before June (Summer in EU), as this is when a lot of users are saying there will be a big influx of capital on Starknet.

✅ 15. GoL2 - 𝓜𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓽

GoL2 - Game of Life is an experiment in Layer 2 gaming. Stick around to learn how it was built. Built by & powered by Starknet.

👉 Redirect HERE.

The goal of the game is to create beautiful patterns with other participants 😅 Get one GOL token by clicking on EVOLVE. 1 token = 1 dice to fill :) You can throw a couple of dice and forget.

✅ 16. RabbitX - 𝓜𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓽

RabbitX - is a global permissionless perpetuals exchange built on Starknet. RabbitX is building the most secure and liquid global derivatives network, giving you 24/7 access to global markets anywhere in the world.

Combining the most innovative ZK infrastructure with the most powerful risk engine, and beautiful user interface. With RabbitX, you can trade 24/7 markets with 20x leverage with the security of Ethereum. Our derivatives DEX is built using state-of-the-art, low-latency ZK-STARK technology atop Ethereum, providing blazing fast speed, peak security, and zero gas fees. Got 19,5$ mln on seed round.

👉 Redirect HERE (code for mainnet is backthebunny)

ATTENTION!!! RabbitX announced that 9.04.2023 would be the last snapshot of eligible addresses for airdrop, what to do?!

We can proceed with Crew3 campaign, but best way to get your eligibility through the mainnet:

• Deposit at least 1k USDT (using Ethereum mainnet)

• Make trading Volume 10-50-100k

• Don’t forget to leave your feedback on Discord

👉 Discord: RabbitX

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P.S. Try to make at least 1 transaction in each protocol on Mainnet once/twice per week 📢 Don’t forget to join each protocol’s Discord as well and leave some feedback 😉

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➡️ Starknet Discord: discord.gg/starknet

➡️ Starknet Twitter: @Starknet | @StarkWareLtd

➡️ Starknet Website: starkware.co

P.S. By the way, there’s a chance to check all your gas spendings on Starknet. 👉 Redirect HERE.

👉 P.S. Once I receive $STRK drop, I will use randomizer to pick one user among the ones who claimed this article and send 25 $STRK (or at most 50$ worth) tokens to him/her 😎 😱