Why Starksheet?

The growing web3 ecosystem leaves a whole bunch of public data unaccessible for the average user. Indeed, even though every single piece of data or logic deployed on chain is theoretically accessible by anyone else, only high-skilled developers are currently able to benefit from this open compute situation.

We believe however that if web3 is about decentralization, its tooling need to be about democratization. Given the fact that spreadsheets are the most widely used softwares in the world, Starksheet created a spreadsheet-like interface to let the average Excel user interact, work, and play, with all these available data. Right from where they are.

Furthermore, similarly to contents that you post on social networks like Twitter or Instagram, models that you create on proprietary softwares (Excel, Google Sheets, even Dune) are stuck in these proprietary softwares.

You don’t own them, you can’t easily use and share them outside of the tool you used to create them, you can’t combine them or collaborate with people using other tools. Migration is costly, features aren’t up to date…

It’s like if software developers were not able to publish their code wherever they wanted, or could not use different text editors, IDE, and switch as they go.

Starksheet is a fully on-chain software that leverages the ERC721 standard to store every single piece of data. This guarantees the user a permanent access to what they did and a versatile usage of their work accros all the ecosystem. For instance, a wallet with a NFT gallery (literally every wallet) becomes a dashboard of relevant handcrafted on-chain KPIs. And even more, can trigger any piece of logic defined in Starksheet.

What is Starksheet

Starksheet consists in:

• a set of smart contracts currently deployed on Starknet:
  • each data input by the user is stored as a NFT owned by the user
  • each NFT is a single dynamic unit of compute that can use any on-chain resource
    • constant values stored in the NFT itself
    • data from any contract
    • call any function from any contract
  • in a collaborative setting, the NFT ownership stands for this user to be responsible for filling this single part of the model, thus enabling true decentralized ownership of each part of the global (business) model created
• a user-friendly application to use these contracts and retrieve all the on-chain data
  • the most ubiquitous interface for creating models is the spreadsheet and so is starksheet, using cell names to reference other NFT and computed values
  • by linking cells as one would naturally expect from a spreadsheet (e.g. A1=10; B2=SUM(A1; 20) the user is indeed creating a graph multicall (transaction builder) located at B2 without even noticing it.

How to use Starksheet?

Starksheet is available at app.starksheet.xyz and is currently deployed on Starknet, the most promising zk-rollup on Ethereum. To use the app, you will need to install a compatible wallet.

Once connected, Starksheet displays a spreadsheet-like view:

• grey cells are owned by someone else
• white cells are free to use
• blue cells are the one you own

When selecting a free cell or one you own, you can type in the formula bar

• any constant value (using decimal or hex notation) or string (less than 31 characters)