Stacks Snacks - Weekly Ecosystem News and Updates (November, December 2025)

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  • Clarity 4 is officially live and it gives devs safer, more flexible tools they need to build stronger Bitcoin-secured DeFi.

  • Bitflow has been gearing up for the upgrade too. They opened early access to their HODLMM beta so the community can test the next evolution of trading on Stacks.

  • WalletConnect integration has rolled out. Shailee joined their November town hall to walk through what the integration unlocks for users, and Eric dropped a great thread breaking down the technical side for the curious.

  • Based Dollar (BSD) launched its Bitcoin Synthetic Dollar on Stacks, letting users borrow dollars against BTC without ever selling a sat.

:face_savoring_food: Other tasty content

  • Over $100M of sBTC + STX capital is now participating in Dual Stacking, all of it earning Bitcoin rewards.

  • Have you heard of the STX Legion? Check out The Advisor’s post for a look at the new creator and community engine powering Stacks’ growth.

  • If you’re heading to DevConnect in Buenos Aires, save this rundown of all the Stacks events happening across the week.

  • Rena, Muneeb, and Matt Zhang (Hivemind Capital) spoke about how Stacks is moving Bitcoin from sitting idle to earning onchain yield and powering a real Bitcoin economy.

Stacks is a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts. It enables decentralized applications to use Bitcoin as an asset and settle transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Stacks exists to unlock Bitcoin’s full potential as the largest, most valuable, durable, and decentralized asset. Learn more here.

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This Week’s News & Stories - Sat, 22 Nov 2025

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

🇦🇷 Highlights From Buenos Aires

Our first ever Stacks Hacker House opened in Buenos Aires this week, and the takeaway is simple: when you give talented people a focused space, the right tools, and feed them top tier Argentine cuisine, they ship. 🚢

Lunchtime at the Hacker House

This was a full on build week. It started with workshops on Clarity, sBTC, Chainhooks, Hiro APIs, and AI-powered coding at the Stacks Meat & Greet event.

Day 1 at Stacks Meat & Greet

By mid week, the house flipped into full heads down mode. Immunefi and WalletConnect dropped by the house for security and integration sessions. The marketing session that was supposed to last 30 minutes turned into two hours of real talk about getting your first users.

Daily workshops at the Hacker House

Everything built toward Demo Day at the Bitcoin Builders Conference, hosted by Stacks. Five days after walking into the house, 11 teams were shipping real projects built with Clarity. Watching those demos truly felt like catching the first spark of something bigger.

Demo Day at Bitcoin Builders Conference

The week ended with a rooftop BBQ at sunset reflecting on this new wave of Stacks builders and what the teams had shipped. Thank you to everyone who made this week happen: the builders, Stacks LATAM, mentors, partners, and the Stacks community that keeps pushing us forward.

Behind the scenes moments from the week are coming to socials soon.

More Quick Highlights 👇

Stacks is a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts. It enables decentralized applications to use Bitcoin as an asset and settle transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Stacks exists to unlock Bitcoin’s full potential as the largest, most valuable, durable, and decentralized asset. Learn more here.


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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 28 Nov 2025

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Happy Thanksgiving to all our American Stackers 🟠🦃

One thing Bitcoiners know all too well is that some years you’re the hero at the dinner table, and other years you show up ready to change the subject.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

  • Xverse keeps improving the BitcoinFi user experience. The wallet connector behind it, Sats Connect, just passed 2M downloads. It’s becoming one of the most used ways for devs to plug Bitcoin wallets into their apps.

  • Zest is closing in on 600 sBTC flowing into their lending protocol.

  • One of the largest global exchanges, MEXC, listed sBTC this week, and the sBTC/USDT trading pair is officially live.

😋 Other tasty content

  • Bitflow’s HODLMM beta bounty is live on Zero Authority DAO. Test it, stress it, share real feedback, and help push BTC-native liquidity forward.

  • In case you missed it last week: Circle’s xReserve product is coming to Stacks as the only Bitcoin L2 in their pilot program. This will bring fully backed, 1:1 USDC-compatible stablecoins to the Bitcoin economy.

  • Dual stacking continues to get love across the ecosystem as people realize you can earn more BTC without selling a single sat.

Stacks is a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts. It enables decentralized applications to use Bitcoin as an asset and settle transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Stacks exists to unlock Bitcoin’s full potential as the largest, most valuable, durable, and decentralized asset. Learn more here.


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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 05 Dec 2025

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

😋 Other tasty bites

That's it for this week. Happy stacking.

Stacks is a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts. It enables decentralized applications to use Bitcoin as an asset and settle transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Stacks exists to unlock Bitcoin’s full potential as the largest, most valuable, durable, and decentralized asset. Learn more here.


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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 12 Dec 2025

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Stackies voting is now live ➡️ vote here ⬅️

🍿 Stacks Snacks

  • Stacks partnered with Talent Protocol to launch weekly builder challenges through the end of December. The first challenge went live yesterday with 5,000 STX in rewards for participants. Jump in here.

  • Based Dollar (BSD) leveled up this week with the new sBTC/BSD pool on Bitflow. BSD also integrated Dual Stacking, giving your sBTC collateral a 5% yield boost 🔥

  • Stackies voting is now open! Cast your vote for the builders, projects, and community members that stood out most this year 🧡

  • Stacks Labs DevRel team rolled out a new Tutorials section in the Stacks Docs, with end-to-end guides for building complete apps on Stacks.

😋 NEW: Snack of the Week

Check out the new Nakamoto1 Merch Store:

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👀 Coming Up Next Week

Next week is STACKED with events. Register now so you don’t miss out:

That's it for this week. Happy stacking!

Stacks is a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts. It enables decentralized applications to use Bitcoin as an asset and settle transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Stacks exists to unlock Bitcoin’s full potential as the largest, most valuable, durable, and decentralized asset. Learn more here.


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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 19 Dec 2025

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

😋 Snack of the Week

A HUGE congrats to all the 2025 Stackies winners 🧡

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👀 Other Tasty Content

  • Stacks x Talent Protocol December Builder Challenge is live, and Week 1 winners are listed. Week 2, let’s see what you’ve got 👀

  • Stacks hosted two Bitcoin Capital Markets institutional webinars this week with some serious heavy hitters. If you missed them, you can catch the replays: The Institutional Shift and Dual Stacking & Self-Custodial sBTC.

  • STXtools is now Tenero! Not just a rebrand, but an upgrade to cleaner UI, better analytics, and broader multichain coverage. Shoutout to Reubs & team 🎉

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

Stacks is a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts. It enables decentralized applications to use Bitcoin as an asset and settle transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Stacks exists to unlock Bitcoin’s full potential as the largest, most valuable, durable, and decentralized asset. Learn more here.


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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 26 Dec 2025

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As we close out 2025, we look back at the Stacks Snacks that resonated most with you. Based on what readers clicked, shared, and engaged with throughout the year, we pulled together the moments, launches, and milestones that mattered most. Think of this as your 2025 on Stacks: a fast, five-minute snapshot of how the leading Bitcoin layer evolved over the past twelve months.

🍿 Stacks Snacks: What actually changed in 2025

😋 Why this mattered beyond the numbers

Stacks is a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts. It enables decentralized applications to use Bitcoin as an asset and settle transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Stacks exists to unlock Bitcoin’s full potential as the largest, most valuable, durable, and decentralized asset. Learn more here.


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This Week’s News & Stories - Mon, 05 Jan 2026

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As 2025 is now officially wrapped up, Stacks closed the year as the leading Bitcoin layer by BTC deployed, one of the fastest-growing developer ecosystems, and delivered major Q4 releases including Dual Stacking and Circle’s USDC on Stacks.

Heading into 2026, new research and development signals a clear shift toward bootstrapping Bitcoin liquidity, scaling Bitcoin-native use cases, and apps expanding Bitcoin-secured earn and trading experiences.

Below is a snapshot of what to be excited about as Stacks enters its next phase.

🍿 Stacks 2026

  • Stacks R&D Update: Stacks will offer BTC holders a safe, self-custodial, BTC-denominated yield that can optionally increase with STX exposure. This introduces a new model for Bitcoin yield, while also creating a clear new staking-capacity use case for STX.

  • Stacks R&D Update: Scalable, trust-minimized payments. Bitcoin holders retain custody of their coins while transferring them on Stacks, unlocking improved scalability and reduced costs without compromising Bitcoin security assumptions.

  • USDC becomes fully operational in 2026: Following the late-2025 launch of USDC on Stacks, 2026 will see applications like Zest, Bitflow, and others fully integrate tier-1 stablecoin liquidity, incentivizing new capital flows into the Stacks ecosystem.

  • Stacks Endowment Grants Program: The Stacks Endowment has allocated a significant 2026 budget toward building out a Grants Program to support both existing and new builders on Stacks.

  • Stacks Accelerator: As part of the Endowment plans, Stacks will kick off an Accelerator Program, offering a new path for founders to scale companies built on Bitcoin.

  • Wormhole: Stacks’ Wormhole integration, expected to launch in early 2026, unlocks another seamless way to bring liquidity into the leading Bitcoin L2.

😋 Stacks Ecosystem 2026

  • Zest: Zest will release V2 in 2026, introducing better capital efficiency, higher caps, improved security, and smoother liquidation mechanics.

  • Granite: Granite, the gateway to Bitcoin liquidity, is aiming to continue shipping new features to include USDCx markets, the ability to stake positions, collateral repayment options, and more.

  • Hermetica: Hermetica has committed to releasing hBTC, an institutional-grade Bitcoin yield product made possible by Stacks in 2026.

  • Bitflow: Bitflow’s HODLMM, a concentrated liquidity engine designed to expand Bitcoin capital markets, is currently in beta and is expected to go live in early 2026.

  • AIBTCDEV: AIBTCDEV continues building Bitcoin-native AI agents and AI DAOs on Stacks. After releasing ERC-8004 on Stacks testnet, covering Bitcoin-secured identity and reputation, the protocol is targeting a 2026 mainnet launch.

  • Talent Protocol: Builder challenges focused on Stacks’ smart contract language Clarity will expand in 2026, enabling developers to build reputation and progress through on-chain activity on Bitcoin’s leading execution layer.

Stacks is a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts. It enables smart contracts and decentralized applications to use Bitcoin as an asset and settle transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Stacks exists to unlock Bitcoin’s full potential as the largest, most valuable, durable, decentralized asset. Learn more here.


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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 09 Jan 2026

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

😋 Snack of the Week

  • A new tool on Stacks to identify, liquidate, and track underperforming NFTs 🌾

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👀 Other Tasty Content

  • Join us live next week for the final session in our 3-part Bitcoin Capital Markets series. Register free while spots are open.

  • Stacks Hacker House alum Tony is already making noise in the dev community with his x402 payments tool — one to watch in 2026 👀

  • Ecosystem apps are actively testing and launching USDCx integrations, putting USD liquidity live on Stacks.

  • You can build a portfolio app on Stacks with a single AI prompt using StacksAgent, which pulls together dev tooling from across the STXCity ecosystem 🧑‍💻

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

Stacks is a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts. It enables decentralized applications to use Bitcoin as an asset and settle transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Stacks exists to unlock Bitcoin’s full potential as the largest, most valuable, durable, and decentralized asset. Learn more here.


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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 16 Jan 2026

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

💭 Vote Below

👀 Other Tasty Content

  • Want early access to Zest v2? Here’s how to get on the list.

  • Bitcoin Capital Markets Webinar has wrapped up—catch the key insights on what productive Bitcoin Treasury strategies will look like in 2026.

  • On that note, Stacks got a nice shoutout from BitcoinTreasuries.net as one of the leading entities 🔥

  • Tycho hopped on Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction to chat Zest, Treasury, and some recent big takes from Saylor.

  • Bitflow launched a DeFi education series to get you ready for the upcoming HODLMM launch.

If you saw this message on your timeline, well done. Keep stacking Stackers 🫡

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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 23 Jan 2026

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

  • Kyle joined The Tie's webinar on Wednesday to break down how institutions are actually moving into crypto—the infrastructure, partnerships, timing decisions, and onchain signals shaping their deployment.

  • All week, we’ve been sharing quotes from our partners who provide the institutional rails to turn holding Bitcoin into earning Bitcoin on Stacks.

  • Builders 🚨 13,500 STX is up for grabs with Talent Protocol through Jan 31. Ship impactful work onchain and get rewarded.

  • We’re also teaming up with DoraHacks for a series of builder challenges focused on integrating USDCx on Stacks. Winner takes all: $3,000 💰

👀 Other Tasty Content

  • Tenero redesigned their homepage and it shows a cleaner UI, tighter focus, deeper cross-chain insights.

  • Zest hits a new milestone: 700+ sBTC supplied on their protocol 🍊

  • Stacking Cycle #126 saw 6.96 BTC distributed to 9,378 wallets via the Proof of Transfer mechanism, unique to Stacks.

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

Stacks is a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts. It enables decentralized applications to use Bitcoin as an asset and settle transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Stacks exists to unlock Bitcoin’s full potential as the largest, most valuable, durable, and decentralized asset. Learn more here.


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