The Culture of Starknet with Abdel Bakhta

Today, we have a classic LayerZero style episode with nonother than Abdel Bakhta.

Abdel is the Head of Ecosystem at Starkware and is onboarding new species to
the Least Aligned L2, Starknet.

We cover the origins of Starkware and how its culture has evolved, there’s also a ton of Starkware Project Alpha on this episode so stay tuned.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro
4:01 Abdel’s Background
11:12 Starkware Beginnings
14:59 Ethereum Alignment Meme
17:53 Starkware Culture Evolution
26:19 Getting to Decentralization
35:32 The Starknet Playbook
39:50 The Stark Dads
47:21 What’s Next
52:38 The Starknet Mafia
57:09 Abdel Focus Areas
1:01:00 Closing Thoughts------

RESOURCES

Abdel Bakhta
https://twitter.com/dimahledba

Starkware
https://starkware.co/

Starknet
https://www.starknet.io/en

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