With the new year's start, I have decided to test some new chains and do some interactions with their running services to try to qualify for their potential airdrops. Last week I jumped into Solana and I still have to go over several services but today I decided to jump into Starknet.
Starknet is ZK-Rollup that uses STARKs to validate tx on Ethereum. SNARKs (used by zkSync and Polygon zkEVM) require a one-time trusted setup, potentially affecting decentralization, while ZK-STARKs use public randomness, eliminating this need and offering quantum resilience. STARKs are more scalable in speed and size than SNARKs, potentially being 10x faster. Starknet uses Cairo dev language (prevents lazy copy-paste forks from deploying).
You can read about their potential incentives on this Twitter post so I decided to create an address using Argent wallet.
bridged some eth using Layeswap
Swapped some tokens using Ekubo
Lent some Eth with Nostra Finance
And got a funny bull NFT
You can also check your address on-chain score and mint it on Nomis
You can check some other dApps on the Starknet ecosystem page
Good Luck!!