The build market had us all in a chokehold in

2023, making for a wild ride filled with awesome milestones (and we wouldn’t have it any other way)! Taken together, these wins build up to a giant leap into a future where web3 development is made easier with rich code libraries, programming languages, and open-source tooling. 🚀✨ 

Let’s take a look at the highlights from this year: https://x.com/cartesiproject/status/1741806633099886743

🚀 Cartesi Rollups launched on Mainnet with its first app-specific rollup dApp, Honeypot! Developers are able to build dApps with Cartesi Rollups and deploy on Ethereum, Optimism, and Arbitrum Mainnets with the Honeypot setting a financial benchmark for secure asset management: https://twitter.com/cartesiproject/status/1740734538538438944

🐣 2023 saw a new era for Cartesi (thanks Noir for bringing this to life with a visual rebrand)! To encourage greater idea sharing, foster collaboration, attract new contributors, and further grow the Cartesi ecosystem, everything is built and discussed publicly over in the Cartesi Discord. Need some navigational guidance to the wider ecosystem? Check out this 🧵 from core contributor Brandon: https://twitter.com/ERC_Brandon/status/1699196160831889824

🕹️ Shoutout to Max for hosting 8 GBCC this year and bringing in an incredible line-up of guests to chat all things web3 gaming. From game dev OGs like @guiltygyoza to trailblazers like @0xsmallbrain who’s building a new on-chain game every 6 weeks, catch up with all the sessions from 2023 here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-srLb8IDxZX-IfSTwmWPmSKR7NWr2wHG

💫 The Community Grants Program was launched and saw the Cartesi community come together voting through 6 proposals to receive funding! We also welcomed a new grants steward Hellen who’s been working on streamlining the grants process for developers. Hear more from community grants recipients in the first (of many) CGP spotlight sessions: https://x.com/cartesiproject/status/1734588753077801169?s=20

🎤 Creative Producer Claudio was on fire this year interviewing builders from Ethereum Denver and ETHGlobal with his tiny mic! And if you can’t get enough, check out the Tiny Web3 Podcast with ecosystem collaborators, key opinion leaders, and passionate enthusiasts shaping the landscape and paving the way forward for web3 adoption: https://cartesi.io/podcast/

🏗️ Not only did Cartesi take part in hackathons all over the globe, but we hosted our very first online hackathon with Taikai, with over 200 registered buidlers in March! Then, after launching Cartesi Rollups on Mainnet, it was time to put the infrastructure to the test, supercharging building with Cartesi Experiment Week. Check out all the projects within the ecosystem in the community repo: https://rolluplab.io/

🧪 Speaking of experiments, the Compute Unit, driven by Zippie, successfully ran the first zkLinux — Linux booting inside a Cartesi Machine (big emulator) inside RiscZero ZK proof at approx 2000–3000 machine cycles per ZK proof segment 🤯. Can’t stop, won’t stop - Carsten also broke the Espresso Sequencer with an iconic Rickroll, and next up - Cartesi on BitVM.

🔥 It’s Alt VM season! We hosted our very first event during DevConnect, teaming up with FUEL to bring you VM Day - a day of panels and lightning talks diving into the intricacies, weighing the trade-offs, and unearthing the transformative use cases alternative VMs unlock. Catch the replay: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-srLb8IDxZVS8KEEnw1mqSTsSUmq2x6P

✨ Introducing the Technical Vision Forum! All Cartesi community members are invited to propose, explore, and discuss technical features that they would like to see included in the ecosystem's Technical Evolution Plan. Curious to see what this looks like? The first proposals have already popped up on the forum - take a look for yourself and help shape the development of Cartesi in 2024…

And here’s to even more building in 2024 🚀

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Happy days fam! Let's take a comprehensive look at the key Cartesi highlights from 2023! 🎢 If there's any aspect you're curious about or if you have any questions on the topics discussed, please don't hesitate to ask! Your understanding is important to us, and we're here to provide all the information and clarity you need as always✨