# StarkNet Hack Launch + StarkNet Intro [Video + Slides]

By [jumpyCheese3](https://paragraph.com/@jumpycheese3) · 2022-04-21

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On Monday, 28th February, we were delighted to host the StarkNet Hack Launch & StarkNet Intro event for our StarkNet Hackathon.

In the first part of the event, hackers learned all about the hackathon, its schedule, workshops as well as challenges and prizes! After the launch, we switched over to the first of five workshops organized around the hackathon. In this one, the focus was on giving a general introduction to StarkNet and the concepts behind StarkNet L1-L2 Interaction.

This is a four-week hack dedicated to new and innovative dApps on StarkNet.

This hackathon is a great opportunity to learn all about StarkNet and about the tools, resources, and information involved in building on StarkNet.

We’ll finish the hackathon with a finale event, where the best hackathon projects pitch to win top prizes!

If you haven’t already, you can register for the hackathon here! Late registrations are open until March, 7th.

You can find a variety of resources to help you get started building on NEAR and everything you need to know to successfully participate and submit a great hackathon project:

Encode x StarkNet Hack Notion pages

StarkNet DocumentationStarkNet Ecosystem General InformationSTARK 101 — a hands-on tutorial on how to write a STARK prover from scratch (in Python)Cairo — documentation, and resources for Cairo, a language for creating STARK-provable programs for general computation. Cairo is the native smart contract language for StarkNet

StarkNet Wallets & Accounts + Syntax — Tuesday, 1st March at 5:30 pm GMTStarkNet ERC20 + ERC721 — Thursday, 3rd March at 5:30 pm GMTStarkNet JS — Thursday, 10th March at 5:30 pm GMTStarkNet L1-L2 Messaging — Wednesday, 16th March at 5:30 pm GMTStarkNet Hackathon Finale and Prizegiving — Thursday, 14th April at 4 pm GMT+1

StarkNet is a permissionless decentralized ZK-Rollup operating as an L2 network over Ethereum, where any dApp can achieve unlimited scale for its computation, without compromising Ethereum’s composability and security. Read more on Starkware’s website.

Encode Club is a blockchain education community. We work with leading companies, networks, communities, and universities. We educate people by way of events, workshops, hackathons, accelerators, and bootcamps. Read more here.

If you have any questions, please email: [general@encode.club](mailto:general@encode.club) or contact us on Discord.

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