Abdel is the exploration lead at StarkWare. In this episode, we discussed these following problems:

- How does Starkware establish an open and collaborative developer ecosystem?

- With projects like Kakarot, Madara, and Beerus already in the Starknet ecosystem, what are the future plans?

- What important ecological parts are missing from the Starkware ecosystem? How should developers participate in?

- In what ways can applications written in the Cairo language differ from those written in Solidity?

- As Kakarot is based on Starkware and competes directly with ZKSync, Scroll, and other ZKEVMs, can it leverage the unique Cairo-based architecture on Starkware? Currently, it seems challenging for EVMs to achieve consensus among developers and users on platforms like Aurora on Near, NEON on Solana, or EVMOS on Cosmos.