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- zkEVM Testnet Guide 🦊
ConsenSys has been whitelisting more users to its testnet.
Here's a step-by-step thread on how to bridge from Goerli to zkEVM, using Hop.
Will zkEVM have a token? 🧵👇
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✅ About zkEVM
• ConsenSys is a private blockchain software technology company, which owns MetaMask, Infura, zkEVM, and several other products
• One of the things they are working on: their own zkEVM rollup, Ethereum scalability using ZK Proofs.
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Recently, Infura endpoints to access ConsenSys zkEVM became available to a closed group of early registrants
To become one of the testers, you should sign up for the waitlist.
(If you signed & didn't get an email, don't forget they are sending beta invitations in batches)
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For those who are whitelisted: how to test the product?
STEP 1: Go to faucetlink.to/goerli & request Goerli ETH
STEP 2: Login into your Infura account app.infura.io/login
STEP 3: Create a new key and select network Web3 API.
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STEP 4: Select the ConsenSys zkEVM Testnet endpoint (screenshot below)
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STEP 5: Go to goerli.zkevm.consensys.net
STEP 6: Add zkEVM Testnet RPC to your MetaMask
STEP 7: Bridge from Goerli to zkEVM using Hop Protocol: goerli.hop.exchange
STEP 8: Test the zkEVM - play around app.dexchange.live
(bridge, swap, provide LP)
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Is there any $INFURA information?
• On the 1st screenshot, the Team said they are "discussing ways to reward those who help test". This does not necessarily means $INFURA, but it means rewards
• On the 2nd screenshot, the Team said that no token will be launched
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Why should we care?
• ConsenSys is a company that owns MetaMask
• Joseph Lubin already confirmed that MetaMask will have a token (check the thread below)
• Infura is actively thinking about rewarding its token holders for the contribution
https://twitter.com/OlimpioCrypto/status/1590425920506318849
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💡 Note:
Getting involved with the community is always a good way to get to know the team and what they are building.
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💡 Activities that you can engage with:
1. Taking an Infura survey that will give you an NFT: https://research.rallyuxr.com/consensys/lp/cle4f709z00vz2zby305x37b2?studyId=cle4f709x00vx2zbyfqpmc7ga
2. Monitor ConsenSys Events. There was a community call 8 days ago: https://www.crowdcast.io/consensys
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💡 Didn't receive their email yet?
The registration for zkEVM private testnet is closed at the moment.
If you missed the registration period, don't worry! The next phase will be a permissionless testnet. We will have more communications on this to come, stay tuned.
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- **$STRK from StarkWare was officially deployed in Ethereum on November 2022. 🐺**
Since then, the team has been moving tokens around.
Some expect an airdrop and token launch to happen later this year 🪂
A thread: how to potentially get and what we know about $STARK so far 🧵
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Quick recap:
• $STRK is the token of StarkWare: an $8B web3 company that invented the StarkNet tech stack (StarkEx, StarkGate, etc).
• Everyone was speculating with a $STARK token/airdrop until scammer Zhu Su from 3AC leaked an email from StarkNet confirming the token
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• StarkWare was then forced to confirm the token, so they released three blog posts:
1. StarkNet Sovereignty 🔗 https://medium.com/starkware/part-1-starknet-sovereignty-a-decentralization-proposal-bca3e98a01ef
2. Decentralization and Governance 🔗 https://medium.com/starkware/part-2-a-decentralization-and-governance-proposal-for-starknet-23e335645778
3. StarkNet Token Design 🔗 https://medium.com/starkware/part-3-starknet-token-design-5cc17af066c6
Tokenomics 👇
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Token utility
This token will be required for:
(i) governance,
(ii) payment of transaction fees on StarkNet, and
(iii) participation in StarkNet’s consensus mechanism (staking)
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Airdrop information 🪂
They allocated 9% for "Community provisions":
• Being the StarkEx L2 user (dYdX, Immutable X, etc).
• Snapshot: June 1, 2022
If you got the dYdX airdrop, you probably have $STARK too
This is open to interpretation, the original text below 👇
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There is also 8.1% that's "Unallocated", to be decided by the community.
This can also mean an airdrop to past StarkNet users if the community decides it.
This is why some still speculate that trying new StarkNet protocols (even now) might get them $STARK in the future
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What else do we know?
The official $STRK smart contract has already been deployed:
🔗 https://etherscan.io/token/0xca14007eff0db1f8135f4c25b34de49ab0d42766
• Total supply: 10B
• Transactions: 404
• Holders: 226
Speculation: StarkWare is moving $STRK to investors so they get the token before TGE
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Bottom Line
• There has not been a $STRK airdrop confirmed for StarkNet Early Network participants, but there is around 8% of the supply that's "unallocated"
• Here is an Airdrop Strategy to try a few protocols 👇
https://twitter.com/OlimpioCrypto/status/1576935798871851009
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- $LENS Airdrop Strategy 🌿
There have been rumours that @LensProtocol's token is close. Coinbase had the LENS price page for one day before taking it down.
Thread:
• How to get a Lens Profile
• Complete the new Lens quests and get a reward ⚡️
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✅ $LENS info
On Feb 1, @stani.lens, Lens' Founder, published a tweet with Ξ16460695 ETH block.
That block was mined in Jan 22. Could it be a snapshot?
🔗 https://etherscan.io/block/16460695
https://twitter.com/stanikulechov/status/1620802163843928064
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✅ $LENS info
Stani spoke about governance in a Podcast in May 2022
TLDR: It's a progressive approach. Lens in-protocol fee collection is 0 atm, but if switched "on", they could go to a community owned treasury
I tweeted about this in Jun 2022 👇
https://twitter.com/OlimpioCrypto/status/1533846684480024581
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✅ $LENS info
There is no official info yet, this is all speculation, however it's natural for a protocol to eventually pursue decentralization via token governance.
So let's stay tuned and see how this evolves, we are early
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✅ How to get a Lens handle?
Many people doesn't know that Lens profiles are NFTs and can be purchased in Polygon Opensea: https://opensea.io/collection/lens-protocol-profiles
Floor price has been slowly inceasing, right now it costs 86 USDC to get one that's already minted.
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If you buy a Lens handle in Opensea, you can start using it immediately. However you can't pick up the @ handle, since it was already minted by someone.
Also, floor price will probably dump hard when Lens Profiles are unlimitedly open to the public. No ETA on that.
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✅ How to get a Lens handle?
The other way to get a handle is mint it yourself, but right now minting is closed, and they open it for some users from time to time.
Latest way to get whitelisted is to have +700 DegenScore and mint via Phaver App 👇
https://twitter.com/StaniKulechov/status/1625134666867933185
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✅ Lens Quests in Phi
Lens launched a series of Quests in @philand.lens on Feb 7.
They last until Feb 22, so there's still 10 days to participate and claim free NFT rewards plus generate Lens real activity in the protocol.
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✅ Lens Quests in Phi
How to participate?
1. Go to 🔗 https://quest.philand.xyz/campaign/lens-yasai
2. Own a Lens Handle
3. Set your default Lens handle in Lenster if you own more than one
4. On the campaign page, click the "Apply" button
5. Start completing the quests! 👇
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✅ Lens Quests in Phi
Here is a Step by Step tutorial en how to complete all six quests: 🔗 https://phi-xyz.notion.site/Yasai-Walkthrough-Guide-6f99640b0b894f6fbb7f9fc42997a999
It's quite straightforward
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✅ Claiming rewards
Phi says that claiming rewards will start on Feb 22nd.
There is no info yet as to what those rewards are.
However, when you complete each quest, you earn one free NFT that can be traded via OpenSea. There's one for every quest, so there are 6 NFTs.
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Not many people know that you don't need a Lens profile to follow someone on Lens.
Give it a try:
1. Go to 🔗 https://lensfrens.xyz/olimpio.lens
2. Connect any wallet, with or without a Lens profile
3. Click follow
4. Sign the #1 txn
5. Submit the #2 txn to the blockchain
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