Dear non Starknet users (8,104,225,549 - 8 Starknet users = 8104225541), I have few words for you, and I am begging you to listen (yeah I am the e-beggar now). I want to give briefly my PERSONAL opinion / sentiment with respect to some FUD around Starknet, mainly on 2 topics: - negativity / hate towards the first round of Provisions - lack of activity on the network / 8 users Simple questions and simple answers. Did we do some mistakes in the past ? Probably yes. If there is a vast sentiment like this, it must come from something. I personally did a big mistake in using the word e-beggar as reply to some individuals (i already apologised publicly for this but there is no ego here so I gladly double apologise again). Starknet is bigger than me, Starknet is bigger than all of us. Yet Starknet is nothing without you all, this is a reality. Did we do our best ? Yes, definitely. We tried hard. All people involved in every single step took it very seriously and really did the maximum. Could we have done better ? Retrospectively it's easy to say yes, but I would say that probably we could have done better. It's always the case as nothing is perfect from the get go. Do we care about this ? Yes, absolutely. Lessons are learned all along the way. We try things, and it comes with some risks. We try, we learn, we improve, repeat. What do next ? I think it's time to forget about the past for those who are not happy, you may have good reasons to not be happy. And I am sincerely sorry about it, as of course I would dream of a world where everyone could have gotten something good for them. This world does not exist unfortunately. Time for all of us together to move forward. As communicated by the Starknet Foundation, the Provisions that happened was only the first, this means there will be others, and it was stated a while ago. What can bring activity back to Starknet ? Beside constantly improving the protocol that we will of course always do, there are many things. First, we shifted from investing heavily into only infrastructure to be ready now to double down on applications. Yes, applications are everything. We need apps, we have already some strong apps, but we need more. We need more innovative use cases, we need more cool and funny things (many games are already there and many more are coming, including extremely ambitious and high quality games). We need people to have fun on the network. We need to have killer apps, consumer applications bringing real organic traffic and activity. We need more RWAs. And you know what ? We are doing many things to bring exactly ALL of that. Starknet will be strong in many verticals: DeFi, Gaming, RWA, ZKML,... I can tell you this will full confidence, and this is because of the sovereignty we have and the future proof technical choices (hard ones) we made. It took time to get there, but now that we have those solid foundations we will be in a good shape to reach escape velocity. The past years of hard working and innovations were just a warmup. Now that the infrastructure is a good shape (TPS, very low fees, native AA with Paymaster and many killer UX features, security) it's time to double down on Apps. So, if you are a team / a single dev, working on any ecosystem, on any app, reach out to us. We will support you and guide you on how to make your dream App on Starknet. We have a strong community, a very welcoming one. It's easy to get help and support. It's easy to create synergies between projects. Starknet has a soul, it really has, and this will make a difference. I am more confident than ever about the future of Starknet, and I want YOU to realise it's potential and to be part of this wonderful adventure. Join us and become the ninth user. #Only8Users #Ebeggar

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