been hiding something from yall for quite a lot of time. this was one of the most extremely fun effort, that few of us from starkware and starknet were part of. well now we are officially core authors, contributors and researchers as part of the paper. adding this on to my linkedin now brb.

shield rush campaign has now come to an end, and yall shud be able to see what it did to few metrics we wanted to show how privacy works on top of starknet, and hence we ran a campaign on top of a very basic and necessary feature. "shielding your assets" and well this turned out to be so crazy that we saw a huge increase in revenue, transactions, shielded TVL, viewing key wallets, deposits, withdrawals. privacy is here to stay and now combine privacy with > post quantum secure > native account abstraction > stwo (fast prover in the world) > a network with dual staking (btc with about 709 staked and strk 1.4 billion basically 21.4% of circulating supply) > and more (way too many stuffs to say) now let me present you all of that within one word. starknet.