Jedis Biweekly Briefing

Welcome to the 20th edition of JediSwap's community-led newsletter!

Every two weeks, we compile the following:

• updates from JediSwap

• what's new in the Starknet ecosystem

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Top highlights from JediSwap in the last two weeks

JediSwap crossed $7.5M in TVL, establishing a new all-time-high

Despite market turbulence, JediSwap continues to grow and has reached another all-time high TVL of $7.5M, further consolidating our position as the DEX with the deepest liquidity on Starknet!

100k strong Twitter fam and growing

We have just reached the massive milestone of 100,000 followers on Twitter! JediSwap is 100% driven by the community, and this shows how strong the community is behind JediSwap. We want to take this opportunity to thank you for your constant support. We appreciate it!

50,000 accounts become eligible for the first ever JediSwap LP contest NFTs

Two months ago, we started our first liquidity contest called 'Rise of the First LPs'’ This contest allows you to win one of our exclusive NFTs, depending on your final ranking on the leaderboard once the contest ends on 25/07.

To participate, deposit liquidity on one of the JediSwap pools. The more and the longer you deposit, the more points you earn and the higher your ranking on the JediSwap leaderboard! We invite you to read this thread to learn more about this campaign.

Earn another cool NFT from our frens at Starknet Quest

There is a second campaign organized by our frens at Starknet Quest that allows you to win a beautiful lightsaber NFT from them! All you have to do is:

• Deposit $30 of liquidity on our JediSwap.

• Follow us on Twitter.

• Retweet this Tweet.

Claim your JediSwap Gitcoin beta round NFTs

JediSwap is a 100% community-led project. To stay 100% community-driven, we depend on grants for funds. As a result, we participate in the Gitcoin grant rounds. In the last Gitcoin Beta round, 9506 unique donors donated $41,677 to JediSwap.

We want to thank every single donor, and as a sign of our gratitude, we want to give every donor a cool NFT and a GitJedi Beta Role on our Discord! Follow the below thread to claim your NFT and role.

Checkout this excellent thread on the JediSwap contributor model by Alinetla

JediSwap is 100% community-led. This means anyone with skills in a wide range of fields can contribute to building JediSwap and earn exclusive rewards! To learn more, Alinetla has written a great thread on Twitter about it 👇️ 

JediSwap joins StarknetCC as one of the main sponsors

Starknet CC has been the flagship event for the whole Starknet ecosystem. And this year is exceptional, with Vitalik being one of the speakers. We are thrilled to sponsor and participate in this year's Starknet CC Paris as well.

This is also a chance for us to expose the leading JediSwap contributors to the rest of the crypto ecosystem. Hence, 6 JediSwap contributors will be present at Starknet CC to shill everyone on the STARK side.

What happened in the Starknet ecosystem

More TPS daddy

The Starknet network is on the brink of its most significant performance upgrade to date, with the upcoming release of v0.12. This will theoretically enable a network capacity of 100 transactions per second and make Starknet the most performant L2 solution in the space.

Check out Avihu’s talk at ETH Prague on the upcoming Starknet upgrades

To get a visual preview of the upcoming Starknet upgrades, check out Avihu’s talk during ETH Prague last week.

Additionally, StarkWare has just added a section on its website showing what the team is currently working on and when releases are planned. Head to this link if you want to learn more about Starknet's roadmap after this v0.12 release.

Now you can pull funds from the mainnet using a single click

Before getting the significant performance boost and the potential arrival of massive new users, StarkWare has just updated its bridge StarkGate. Users can now bridge on Starknet with just one click!

Rate JediSwap on Dappland to be eligible for the latest Argent Xplorer NFT

Our frens at Argent have been running a 9-week-long NFT campaign. To win the NFT this week, you must rate a dapp on dappland. Rate JediSwap on dappland and win the Argent Xplorer NFT for week 8.

Stake ETH on Lido with low gas fees using Braavos

Braavos has just released the first usage of DeFi pooling on the Starknet mainnet! This feature enables users to stake their ETH on L1 directly from their Braavos wallet with low fees and just one click. It also allows users to get a yield boost!

We end this edition with a superb article from Starknet_OG explaining in detail why Starknet is currently the best L2 on the market.

We hope you enjoyed this issue, and we'll see you in two weeks for a new edition! Don’t forget to subscribe.