Astar Network Updates: 46 days in 2024

Astar Network is unstoppable and if you missed the latest updates from the year 2024, don't worry. I've prepared a recap with everything that happened in these 46 days... we've worked hard to deliver web3 to billions!

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January 3: Astar in trending topics in the business and finance section in Japan

https://twitter.com/WatanabeSota/status/1742424224017646003/photo/1

January 11: Sota was invited by the Japan Government to join SusHi Tech Tokyo 2024

January 16: ink!Dev Hub Report

https://twitter.com/AstarNetwork/status/1748328716336537800

January 18: Announced the first partnership with Hakuhodo and NTT Data to use Startale Web3 Cloud, allowing developers to deploy and manage dApps easily on Astar zkEVM and beyond.

https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZRSP667153%5FY4A110C2000000/

January 22: The Graph is coming to Astar zkEVM.

https://twitter.com/AstarNetwork/status/1749410049821163982

January 26: Astar x DeSpreadTeam

https://twitter.com/AstarNetwork/status/1750851228815577342

January 26: Sota will be at ETHDENVER 2024

https://twitter.com/EthereumDenver/status/1751059957435306337

February 04: Hakuhodo and Japan Airlines are launching the second iteration of “KOKYO NFTs” on Astar zkEVM

https://twitter.com/Kokyo%5Fnft/status/1754313154467860918

February 04: Astar Devs stats on Alchemy

https://twitter.com/AstarNetwork/status/1753991810157056479

February 06: The Astar zkEVM will plug into @0xPolygon's Aggregation Layer & LxLy bridge

https://twitter.com/gelatonetwork/status/1754927648638136646

February 06: Yoki Origins campaign - More than 40 projects and enterprises have joined the Astar zkEVM launch campaign.

https://astarnetwork.deform.cc/yokicampaigninterest/

February 07: Yasushi Akimoto, Japan’s legendary idol producer, will produce an Idol project on Astar zkEVM

https://astar.network/blog/yasushi-akimoto-japan's-legendary-idol-producer-starts-54961

February 9: Deloitte Tohmatsu and Japan Sports Agency, Japanese Government Agency to launch baseball-themed NFT game on Astar

https://astar.network/blog/deloitte-tohmatsu-group-transforms-the-sports-industry-with-566

February 10: Tokenized Pokémon card is coming on Astar zkEVM

https://twitter.com/packs%5Fxyz/status/1756287559976759454

February 14, 2024: dApp Staking V3 live on Astar

https://twitter.com/AstarNetwork/status/1757057502070677560

February 14, 2024: 90% zkEVM…

https://twitter.com/WatanabeSota/status/1757928480866812097
February 15, 2024: Astar zkEVM x Rarible x DeChat x DappRadar x DenDekaDen x Moon NFT x Very Long Swap x XO App

https://twitter.com/AstarNetwork/status/1757376861397725640

That's all folks!