On October 24, the LambdaClass team, which previously helped Starknet complete V1 2 and cairoVM development, announced a new strategic cooperation agreement with zkSync, which will focus on vertical areas of the ecosystem, such as enhancing ZK Stack and introducing applications to zkSync. LambdaClass also said that some top engineers have joined the zkSync team in the past few days.
If you pay more attention to developments in the zk field, you will know that LambdaClass and Starknet have had a long-term partnership.
LambdaClass is a team of engineers from Argentine focused on solving technical challenges for companies that are scaling and innovating, working on hard problems related to distributed systems, machine learning, compilers and cryptography.
Previously, when the Starknet v 0.12.0 mainnet was launched and Quantum Leap upgraded, the maximum TPS was close to 100 and the transaction delay was kept within 10 seconds. When the news came out, LambdaClass was pulled out by Starknet’s official social account and said it was because of this cooperation. Such amazing technological progress can only be accomplished through relationships.
But now, LambdaClass has fallen into the arms of Starknets competitor zkSync. What happened in the middle?
LambdaClass terminated its cooperation with Starknet as early as early August
Although LambdaClass only officially announced its partnership with zkSync today, as early as August 3, LambdaClass published an article titled LambdaClass and the Future of the Starknet FoundationarticleIndicates the termination of the partnership with Starknet.
“After EthCC, we decided to look back at some of the decisions we’ve made over the past two years. We believe Starknet has the most vibrant community and the best technology. That’s why we plan to continue all engineering work, but we want the freedom to move quickly and make decisions independently of Starkware and the Foundation. We highly value freedom of thought and expression and will continue to express ourselves as we have in the past. We believe this will keep us honest. This is part of the open source culture we believe in, and it allows We got to where we are today.
As of today (August 3, 2023), we have decided to terminate the agreement with the foundation, but are still committed to cooperation before December 31, 2023. We hope to accomplish some technical goals.
“We will continue to be part of the Starknet ecosystem and help build the future of the network by building core infrastructure, products, and community. We are motivated to be part of Starknet’s decentralized future by running orderers, provers, and staking services. Part of it.
As can be seen from the above article, LambdaClass announced its decision to terminate cooperation with Starknet in very decent words. But the core sentence We want to be free to move quickly and make decisions independently of Starkware and the Foundation has shown that this friendly cooperative relationship has problems in the process.
LambdaClass has been developed for Starknet in the past
In that breakup declaration, LambdaClass stated that it had signed a 6-year cooperation agreement with the Starknet Foundation in July 2023. It can be seen that this cooperation still has a long way to go side by side. Just like before.
Starknets parent company, StarkWare, developed the Cairo language and CairoVM in order to generate proofs more efficiently. In addition to being a contributor to the development of Starknet V1 2, LambdaClass is also responsible for the development of cairoVM in the Go language.
LambdaClass CEO Federico Carrone said on social media that the team engineers completed the coding of cairoVM in less than two months.
Prior to this, LambdaClass also developed cairo-rs and starknet_in_rust. When Starknet V 0.12.0 came online, the throughput soared from an average of 30 K Cairo steps per second (CSPS) on v 0.11.0 to 220 K CSPS in the new version. This was achieved by optimizing the Sequencer and using cairo-rs developed by LambdaClass. Enhanced Cairo contract execution was completed.
In July, Starknet released an official update document stating that LambdaClass is building a Starknet technology stack that will eventually include a prover, a sequencer, an execution engine and a web browser. In the near future, these different components may be integrated with other components of the Starknet technology stack and form a running Starknet instance.
In addition to completing development work for the zk leader Starknet, LambdaClass has also launched an offensive in the gaming field. LambdaClass is currently developing an open source multiplayer combat game. LambdaClass CEO Federico even said, In 2-3 years, Lambda will become an excellent game studio.
LambdaClass and zkSync cooperation details
Returning to the cooperation between LambdaClass and zkSync, according to official news, this cooperation will include joint work on application versions and stack improvements on zkSync. LambdaClass CEO Federico forwarded the official announcement stating that the cooperation will include infrastructure, applications and community. In addition, the official did not announce more details of the cooperation, but said that there will be more new project developments in the near future.
In fact, LambdaClass had participated in the development of zkSync long before the cooperation news was announced. In early September, LambdaClass opened the Lambda zkSync official account to announce cooperation project content reports, and said it was working on releasing the first version of ZKSyncs Rust SDK.
On October 20, zkSync development team Matter Labs stated that GRVT, a hybrid crypto trading platform that has completed two rounds of financing of US$7.1 million at a valuation of US$39 million, will provide a user experience similar to Robinhood and the self-hosting functions of decentralized trading platforms such as Uniswap. , will become the first hyperchain in the zkSync ecosystem, a custom blockchain that will run in the zkSync ecosystem as Layer 3 Validium.
LambdaClass CEO Federico forwarded a tweet from Omar, zkSync’s head of ecological business, saying he was honored to participate in this cooperation. It can be inferred from the project content of zkSync hyperchain and the business background of LambdaClass that LambdaClass is responsible for the development of hyperchain in this cooperation.
On X, there are many matrix accounts of LambdaClass Starknet. The number of fans of LambdaClasss Starknet teams official account is three times the number of fans of LambdaClasss zkSync team. This cooperative relationship has just begun. We are waiting to see what kind of technological sparks will be produced in the future.
