Stacks Snacks - Weekly Ecosystem News and Updates (Thread)

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This Week’s News & Stories - Tue, 24 Oct 2023

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This Week: a special edition of the Stacks Snacks newsletter where we’re looking back at what you’ve missed during Bitcoin Unleashed London 💂🇬🇧

🟧🍿 Snacks Unleashed

• The sBTC Working group officially announced the launch of the sBTC Developer Release on stage.

• Over 250 developers started working with sBTC during the EasyA London Hackathon.

• Stacks Foundation Director of Activation Mitchell Cuevas & Copper Head of Sales Michael Roberts share official Stacks integration for Copper.

• Chiente Hsu brings ALEX' official Bitcoin Lab Ecosystem fund, pledging financial and technical support for builders building on the ALEX Finance Layer for Bitcoin L2 Stacks.

• Stacks Foundation Director of Community Programs and Governance Jenny Mith shares launch of decentralized grants pilot for the Stacks ecosystem.

• EasyA app Founders Dom & Phil Kwok share 2000 developers milestone for Stacks Clarity development challenges in the EasyA app live on stage.

• Over 150 developers and users have officially started testing sBTC via the incentivized testnet program.

🟧😋 More Bitcoin Unleashed

• Watch back the live stream, Day 1 & Day 2. The separate sessions and Developer Den workshops will be published on October 24th.

• The Bitcoin Unleashed Gallery in London saw the largest Ordinal collections come together to celebrate building on Bitcoin, with OnChainMonkey leading the charge.

• Bitcoin L2 Bluechip NFT community Megapont celebrates Bitcoin Unleashed with a free London & Stacks themed Ordinal print available here.

• Core Community member and SIP resident shares the highlights of Bitcoin Unleashed in London.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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, 27 Oct 2023

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This Week: Bitcoin Decentralized Finance protocols on the L2 share exciting news for the Stacks community. Meanwhile, EasyA shares incredible results for onboarding more developers to Bitcoin 👇️

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Bitcoin Finance Layer ALEX' AMM DEX is now fully integrated with Leather wallet, with native SIP10 token swaps now available.

• Celebrating its 2nd birthday, Bitcoin DeFi protocol Arkadiko shares the details of Arkadiko 2.0, with sBTC, liquid stacking and more.

• Oracle Network Pyth partners with Arkadiko Finance to ensure that users’ positions as well as the general protocol remain healthy.

• Zest Founder Tycho Onnasch shares single Bitcoin L1 transaction peg-ins for sBTC, created by Zest Co-Founder Ferdinand.

• EasyA highlights that now over 2500 developers have completed the Stacks developer challenges in the app.

• Decentralized Grants working group coordinator shares cohort 1 opening soon.

😋 Other tasty content

• Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali shares Bitcoin Layer 2 trilemma.

• EasyA publishes after movie of the successful Stacks Bitcoin hackathon attended by over 250 developers in London.

• House of Chimera publicizes one-pager on Stacks.

• NewsCrypto lists top 5 Decentralized Finance protocols on Stacks.

• Keep track of sBTC and Nakamoto release education by attending the weekly SIP calls.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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, 03 Nov 2023

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Big news! Decentralized finance protocol Hermetica is the first to integrate sBTC with the sBTC Developer Release. This is a huge milestone for building on Bitcoin, with many DeFi protocols to follow. Now, users in the sBTC Testnet Program will be able to try Hermetica’s DeFi experience in a safe test environment.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Hermetica becomes the first Decentralized Finance protocol to successfully integrate sBTC with the sBTC Developer Release.

• Stacks Multisig Asigna announces Mainnet release, partnering with ALEX and Leather.

• DeFi protocol Arkadiko reveals Asigna integration to access Arkadiko securely with the Asigna extension.

• Governance Resident announces the launch of the Stacks Foundation’s Decentralized Grants program, with submissions now open!

• Zest Founder Tycho explains sBTC OP_DROP, sending BTC from L1 directly to a smart contract on the Stacks L2 with a single Bitcoin L2 transaction.

• Submission deadline for the next Bitcoin Startup Lab accelerator protocol is today!

😋 Other tasty content

• Trevor Owens published Bitcoin Magazine article covering the Bitcoin L2 Trilemma, featuring sBTC & Stacks as a decentralized bridge to bring Bitcoin from the main chain to a layer.

• Velar Founder Mithil Thakore explains the Bitcoin builders opportunity.

• Community leader Binaya shares collaboration with the National Innovation Center in Nepal to bring the Clarity bootcamp to students.

• Attend today’s sBTC / Nakamoto Education Series hosted by community leader acrossfire.

• Watch back all Bitcoin Unleashed sessions here 👈

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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, 10 Nov 2023

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This Week: the sBTC Testnet Program is in full motion with users currently testing different sBTC functions and soon trying out sBTC in DeFi applications for the first time. Meanwhile, sBTC Resident Andre Serrano highlights a major milestone for the Nakamoto Release.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Andre Serrano shares the first major milestone to launch Nakamoto on Mainnet. Learn more about this milestone here.

• Stacks Multisig Asigna surpasses $100K in TVL.

• Bitcoin startup accelerator program Bitcoin Startup Lab extends the application deadline to November 30.

• Xverse wallet highlights next Stacking cycle to roughly start within the next 10 (now 7) days.

• Jenny Mith releases Decentralized Grants launch information, with submissions closing November 19.

• Bitcoin DeFi protocol ALEX lets community vote for ALEX Bridge transformation into XLink.

😋 Other tasty content

• Kyle Ellicott sat down with sBTC Resident Andre Serrano to discuss all things sBTC. Listen to the full conversation here.

• Gamma is hosting the Nolcha Shows during Art Basel Miami Art Week on December 7th together with Xverse, Stacks and Trust Machines.

• House of Chimera publishes deep dive on why Bitcoin needs a layer 2 solution like Stacks.

• DeFi protocol ALEX summarizes several updates for their finance layer for Bitcoin.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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 - Tue, 28 Nov 2023

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As the community prepares for the Nakamoto release, builders are ramping up their efforts to release sBTC on testnet. This is all happening while Hiro Hacks and the Decentralized Grants program keep the builders building. Let’s dive into this week’s Stacks snacks!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Governance Resident announces 45+ submissions for Decentralized Grants program.

• Stacking DAO teases the release of liquid stacking for Stacks with stSTX.

• The Stacks Foundation shares date to discuss the proposal to increase block rewards for STX miners.

• Submissions for the Startup Lab Accelerator Program are closing within the next few days.

• Hiro System announces the Hiro Hacks for Bitcoin builders, starting December 1st.

😋 Other tasty content

• Hiro Systems shares comparison between sBTC and wBTC.

• Hermetica Finance highlights Outlier Ventures Bitcoin thesis.

• Bitcoin Decentralized Finance protocol Bitflow teases the integration of sBTC.

• Stacks Foundation Director of Activation Mitchell publishes article on why the Stacks layer sometimes skip Bitcoin blocks?

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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, 01 Dec 2023

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After Decentralized Finance protocol Hermetica, Bitflow follows with another integration of sBTC on testnet. Meanwhile, other protocols confirmed that their sBTC integration will be ready on testnet soon, giving the testnet program participants an opportunity to improve the user experience with sBTC.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• ALEX Bridge transitions into XLink, bridging Bitcoin to the EVM finance world.

• Bitflow reports on sBTC swaps now being live on Bitflow testnet.

• Bitcoin Frontier Fund breaks down Bitflow Finance and the benefits of integrating sBTC.

• Hermetica Finance shares 150+ people to have tested the application with sBTC thanks to the sBTC testnet program.

• Zest Founder Tycho Onnasch, Stacks Foundation Executive Director Brittany Laughlin and core community members discussed the new emissions schedule proposal on X spaces. Share your thoughts on the forum post.

😋 Other tasty content

• Digital Asset Investment Firm North Rock Digital releases thesis on Stacks.

• Take a look at the Nakamoto Educational series and pre-register for the Ultimate Nakamoto Guide.

• sBTC vs WBTC: A Comparison of Tokenized Bitcoin.

• Hiro releases new API toolkit, simplifying API development.

• Poloniex Exchange shares Bitcoin Layer 2 Insights from Bitcoin L2 DeFi Protocol Velar’s Founder Mithil.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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 - Sat, 09 Dec 2023

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With North Rock Digital & Portal Ventures publishing theses on Bitcoin L2 Stacks and major entities announcing support for Stacks, excitement is ramping up as we are approaching voting for the Nakamoto Release. Let’s dive in!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Figment to enable Bitcoin L2 rewards with upcoming support of the Stacks layer.

• North Rock Digital Publishes Thesis on Bitcoin L2 Stacks.

• The Stacks Governance group publishes the Ultimate Stacks Nakamoto Guide

• The 2023 Stacks Awards are announced. Set a reminder here and vote for your favorite projects and people in the Stacks ecosystem.

• Philip de Smedt announces Stacking DAO Liquid Stacking launch to be imminent.

• Hermetica Finance announces the first leverage product powered by the sBTC Developer Release.

😋 Other tasty content

• Keep track of the Nakamoto Education Series: Resources, Experts, and Key Discussions.

• Portal Ventures shares Bitcoin thesis including Stacks as leading L2.

• Figment shares first look research paper on L2 Stacks.

• Zest Founder Tycho Onnasch publishes forum post on enabling sBTC as a gas asset on Stacks.

• In a recent X Spaces, Kyle Ellicott was joined by Jakob from Hermetica, Dylan from Bitflow, and sBTC Resident Andre Serrano to discuss the future for Stacks and sBTC.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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, 15 Dec 2023

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The Stacks core engineers proudly share that the Nakamoto Release Testnet (branded as Neon) is now code complete! Moreover, an in-depth article on the technical milestones and release strategy for Nakamoto & sBTC was released, as the Stacks community prepares for an exciting end of 2023!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali reveals Stacks Nakamoto testnet (Neon) to be code-complete with an expected testnet launch end of December.

• Mitchell Cuevas shares technical milestones & release strategy updates for Nakamoto & sBTC

• Bitcoin DeFi Protocol ALEX launches its ALEX Launchpad Beta Testing program.

• The Stacks community votes for their favorite community members and best projects in the ecosystem. Listen back to the 2023 Stackies.

• Stacks nominated for Milk Road Altcoin of the year. Vote now!

• Web3 Venture Studio “Thesis” shares thesis on Bitcoin & Bitcoin layers.

• Bitcoin L2 DeFi protocol Velar reveals H1 2024 Roadmap.

😋 Other tasty content

• Oracle Network Pyth’s Price Feeds are now fully supported on Stacks.

• Nakamoto and sBTC launch communications and events planning for 2024

• Investment Firm VanEck publishes 15 Crypto Predictions for 2024, including Stacks.

• Bitget Wallet announces support for Bitcoin Decentralized Finance project ALEX.

• Flagship Analyst publishes an article on the top DeFi projects on Stacks.

• Bitcoin L2 DeFi protocol Hermetica publishes an article on “the Turkey problem” for DeFi and how Hermetica fixes this.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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, 22 Dec 2023

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This weekend, a group of self-described ‘Degens’ put the Stacks layer to the test by unleashing their vibrant community to mint with their new ‘STX20’ protocol, bringing an Ordinals-like model to the Stacks L2. Meanwhile, VC Tim Draper believes applications built on bitcoin will perform similarly to how Microsoft applications did in the internet boom, and is “pretty excited about Stacks”. Let’s look a this week’s Stacks snacks.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• STX20, an experimental protocol as version of Bitcoin inscriptions got introduced on the Stacks layer.

• Stacks sees the largest block ever registered with 10,371 transactions, thanks to the first STX20 mints.

• Venture Capitalist Tim Draper says he’s pretty excited about Stacks and explains his Bitcoin thesis.

• Foundation Capital lists Stacks as effort to give Bitcoin additional scalability and functionality.

• Messari publishes the latest edition of the Crypto Theses for 2024, including thoughts on Stacks & Bitcoin L2s.

• Coinbase releases 2024 Crypto Market Outlook predicting elevated activity for Bitcoin on secondary via L2s like Stacks.

• StackingDAO launches stSTX on mainnet.

😋 Other tasty content

• Velar is rolling out the sBTC Testnet Pool.

• ALEX passes 500 million in transaction volume.

• Arkadiko introduces Arkadiko 2.0 with a short thread.

• ALEX Decentralized Finance shares Bitcoin Oracle roadmap.

• Bitflow Co-Founder Diego Mey shares STX20 marketplace teaser.

• CoinDesk highlights Stacks after comments from VC Tim Draper.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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, 29 Dec 2023

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Exciting news! Nakamoto’s ‘Controlled Testnet’ has arrived! Core developers promised an end-of-December delivery for v.2 (aka Neon) and have come through with another critical milestone.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• In name of the core developers, the Stacks Foundation announced Nakamoto’s controlled Testnet launch.

• Hero Gamer reveals the first cohort for the decentralized grants program.

• Bitcoin DEX Bitflow is live on Stacks mainnet for private access.

• Capital firm North Rock shares why they are excited about Stacks.

• Stacking DAO announces 5 million TVL in 7 days of launch.

• Bitcoin Multisig wallet integrates into Bitflow and Velar.

😋 Other tasty content

• Bitcoin DeFi protocol Velar publishes article on why moving from wBTC to sBTC is necessary.

• CoinShares Chief Strategy Officer Meltem Demirors talks to Bloomberg about Stacks and L2s.

• Are you a Stacks miner? SIP & Governance Resident shares critical feedback for miners.

• Xlink publishes the end-of-the-year wrap up for 2023.

• ALEX teases the release of STX20 trading on ALEX.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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, 05 Jan 2024

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Paul Veradittakit calls it “the resurgence of Bitcoin, Bitcoin DeFi summer”, Coinbase says it’s “new smart contract superpowers for Bitcoin”, Messari thinks “Bitcoin is back”, and Tim Draper is just “pretty excited about Stacks”. All we can say, is that within the Stacks community, the naka•mojo is strong as we keep contributing to the growth of the Bitcoin economy 🟧

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Defi data tracker DeFi Llama reports all time high Total Value Locked (TVL) for Bitcoin L2 Stacks (excluding stacked STX).

• Paul Veradittakit lists Stacks within “the resurgence of Bitcoin” and “DeFi Summer 2.0” as prediction for 2024 on CoinDesk.

• Coinbase Newsletter Bytes shares Bitcoin could gain new smart-contract superpowers with the Lightning Network and Stacks.

• StackingDAO becomes 2nd largest protocol on Stacks in terms of TVL.

• Bitflow reports $1M+ TVL for stSTX on Stacks thanks to the StackingDAO community.

• Liquid Stacking protocol Papaya is now on testnet with sBTC.

• Mezma reports on 20,000 monthly active users for DeFi protocol ALEX, an all time high.

😋 Other tasty content

• Bob Bodily lists why Stacks might be the world’s first sovereign-validium L2 on Bitcoin.

• Wave the orange Bitcoin banner, join the #Nakamojo movement and win great prizes.

• The Block Runner shares thoughts on why DeFi on Stacks is the Next Bitcoin Bull.

• Bitcoin L2 DeFi token $ALEX trading is now live on KuCoin.

• MEXC exchange lists first Bitcoin secured meme coin.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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, 12 Jan 2024

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During Bitcoin Unleashed 2023 in London, Zest Founder Tycho Onnasch shared three things that excited him for the next six months regarding Bitcoin: 1. ETF Approval 2. Bitcoin Halving and 3. the Stacks Nakamoto Upgrade. With the SEC officially approving Bitcoin ETFs, we can celebrate the first victory for Bitcoin this year. However, this is just the beginning, as builders are gearing up for an amazing 2024.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Bitcoin DEX Bitflow celebrates its $2M TVL milestone for stSTX.

• Asigna Founder Vlad / Fess-v introduces sOrdinals protocol, with the website now live.

• Ryder announces it will operate Fast Pool, the largest stacking pool on Stacks, and with that will become a signer for the upcoming Stacks upgrade.

• Zest Founder Tycho Onnasch and Stacking DAO Founder Philip de Smedt host their first Stacks DeFi Show.

• ALEX announces integration of STX20 into the Bitcoin Oracle paving the way for secure trading on ALEX’ AMM.

• DeFi Researcher Ignas publishes his “Degen Playbook for Stacks”, shares by tech newsletter TLDR.

• Blockchain Research Group House of Chimera reports rapid growth in daily transactions on Stacks.

😋 Other tasty content

• Nakamoto Upgrade Deep Dive: 100% Bitcoin Finality for Stacks, what does it mean?

• MT Capital shares research report: Stacks Nakamoto is about to be upgraded to inject new impetus into the Bitcoin ecosystem.

• ALEX now listed in the Crypto dot com app.

• Ledger shares Bitcoin L2s, what they are and how they work, with Stacks.

• Trust Machine’s Rena Shah explains the Bitcoin DeFi future as guest appearance at Blockworks.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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, 19 Jan 2024

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Another big week for the Stacks community! This week’s Stacks Snacks highlights the Spartan Group Bitcoin L2 report, diving deep into the layers of Bitcoin's blossoming ecosystem, and Electric Capitals highly anticipated yearly crypto developers report, showing more experienced crypto developers taking an interest in Stacks.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• CoinDesk announces the release of The Spartan Group’s Bitcoin Layers report.

• Electric Capital publishes the yearly crypto developers report with Stacks established developers being up 51%.

• Hiro Systems releases A Developer’s Guide to Bitcoin DeFi.

• STX20 celebrates one million transactions on STX20 since launch, with sOrdinals closing in on 200,000 inscriptions.

• The largest DeFi protocol on Stacks, ALEX, celebrates its 2 year anniversary.

• Liquid Stacking provider StackingDAO announces integration with Xverse.

• ALEX DeFi reveals Liquid Stacking on Stacks with LISA, in partnership with Xverse and Ryder.

• Megapont announces the MegaDAO, a fully on-chain DAO built on Stacks.

😋 Other tasty content

• Pantera Capital releases letter named “The Year Ahead” with the resurgence of Bitcoin due to the rise of L2s as prediction for 2024.

• Binance Research lists Stacks as notable Bitcoin project with their upcoming sBTC solution to create a decentralized, non-custodial, Bitcoin L2.

• Leather integrates native SIP10 token swaps in the app powered by ALEX.

• Xverse integrates STX, STX20, and SIP-10 token multisig Asigna.

• Check out the updated Bankless guide to Stacks.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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 - Sun, 28 Jan 2024

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Big news for Bitcoin builders! This week highlights the launch of N21, a go-to-market prep program supporting startups with everything from technology to fundraising. Meanwhile, other builders celebrate successful pre-seed funding rounds, TVL milestones, and technical improvements.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Bitcoin DEX Bitflow raises $1.3M in pre-seed funding to continue building critical infrastructure for Bitcoin DeFi.

• Stacks Foundation Executive Director Mitchell Cuevas announces N21, a “launch readiness” program for teams preparing for the Stacks Nakamoto release.

• Arkadiko teases the launch of Arkadiko 2.0.

• OKX shares Bitcoin 2024 Outlook, featuring Stacks as scaling solution and ALEX as finance layer for Bitcoin.

• StackingDAO celebrates $20M in TVL.

• Hiro Systems reports to have reduced block ingestion time for the Stacks API by 85-95%.

😋 Other tasty content

• Blockworks highlights that DeFi is Bitcoin’s missing ingredient.

• ALEX Founder Chiente Hsu gives her thoughts on the latest Bitcoin L2 report by Spartan, as well as the OKX report.

• 3 days until the first month of #Nakamojo closes. Join the competition now!

• Hermetica Finance highlights the Stacks L2 developer statistics with established devs up 51% YoY.

• sBTC Product Lead Andre Serrano published The Opportunity for Stacks via the Bowtied Bull newsletter.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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, 02 Feb 2024

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The Nakamoto Release has an official time window: April 15 - 29, 2024 🚀

Earlier, we watched StackingDAO launch on mainnet and reporting on $20M TVL in liquid staking. Then, we saw Bitflow going Mainnet, raising $1.3M, and now reporting on $10M TVL. Now, Velar raises $3.5M. The Stacks ecosystem is thriving! Are you a startup Founder looking for support? Check out N21.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Stacks Nakamoto Update launch window announced: April 15-29.

• Coindesk reports Stacks L2 DeFi protocol Velar raises $3.5M.

• New Signer Alert: Luganodes becomes Stacks signer, also reported by CoinDesk.

• Stacks Community Resident introduces the Pilot Cohort of De-Grants Program.

• Tang Chan shares his latest report on why he believes Stacks could present a $90 Billion opportunity.

• Decentralized Finance protocol Bitflow reports on $10M TVL.

• StackingDAO reports $20M in TVL for liquid staking on Stacks.

• Stacks team Leo introduces STX Tools for SIP10 tracking tools.

😋 Other tasty content

• 40% of Bitcoin developers are working on Bitcoin L2s, Mohamed Fouda reports.

• Did you know the Stacks.co/blog page gets updated daily with your latest Stacks news?

• ABCDE Labs publishes its ABCDE 2024 BTC Recap including Stacks.

• Blockworks says Decentralized Finance is Bitcoin’s missing ingredient.

• Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali shares how Bitcoin Finality and Fast blocks work after Stacks Nakamoto.

• PM at Pantera Capital Cosmo Jiang shares excitement for the Nakamoto Launch.

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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 09 Feb 2024

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The Stacks community is gearing up for another milestone. There’s about one day left until voting starts for the Nakamoto Release! This vote will decide whether Stacks Improvement Proposal (SIP) 21, also known as the Nakamoto Release, will get approved and implemented for Stacks by the core engineers. Let’s dive into this week’s ecosystem highlights.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Arkadiko shares that voting for the Nakamoto Release will start soon. Read more about the voting process in the voting guide and voting website.

• Read more about the Nakamoto release in the freshly updated Nakamoto Docs.

• ALEX publishes its governance proposal for $XLINK with the Approval and Tokenomics.

• StackingDAO hits new all time high TVL with $35M.

• Sora Ventures publishes Q1 2024 Bitcoin ecosystem map with an overwhelming amount of Stacks entities.

• Arkadiko shares details on Arkadiko 2.0 with Redemptions.

• Applications for the N21 Nakamoto Prep-Program are closing on February 12th.

• New hackathon announced: Ready Layer 2, a Bitcoin Builder Hackathon.

😋 Other tasty content

• Stacks Foundation Developer Advocate Kenny Rogers explains Bitcoin Finality for Stacks.

• Zest Founder and contributor to StackingDAO Tycho Onnasch shares reason for liquid stacking driving DeFi growth.

• Founders of Velar, StackingDAO, Arkadiko, and Zest came together to discuss DeFi on Bitcoin.

• StackingDAO shares a deep dive on points: how to best manage community participation.

• Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali shares his Thesis: Bitcoin L2s will start comparing with alt L1s in functionality, speed, and growth. But with BTC as the asset.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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 - Mon, 19 Feb 2024

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The Stacks community celebrates an all time high in total value locked in applications, as well as a top 25 entry in market cap on CoinMarketCap. It seems like the world is waking up to Bitcoin L2s. Or, as Stacks creator Muneeb Ali put it: “all roads lead to Bitcoin. All roads in Bitcoin lead to Bitcoin L2s.”

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Stacks reaches new All Time High milestone with $120M TVL recorded by DeFi Llama.

• Bitflow reaches $30M in TVL within 30 days of launching on mainnet.

• Messari shares Q4 2023 State of Stacks report with daily active addresses up 85.6% QoQ.

• Grayscale publishes 2024 Bitcoin report listing Stacks as laying the groundwork for L2s.

• Zest Protocol shares alpha in final polishing phase before going to mainnet.

• Data Analysis tool Ortege announces integrating the Stacks chain.

😋 Other tasty content

• Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali talks about Bitcoin L2s in 2024.

• Hiro Systems shares deep dive on Clarity vs. Solidity.

• Binance academy publishes deep dive on Bitcoin L2s.

• Cointelegraph publishes thread on Bitcoin L2s.

• Trust Machines posts State of L2 Adoption Report for Bitcoin.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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, 23 Feb 2024

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With Bloomberg discussing Bitcoin Layers as part of optimism in crypto, and Pantera Capital, one of the largest digital assets funds in the world, stating that Bitcoin L2 Stacks has a competitive edge for quite some time against any new competition that emerges, the Stacks ecosystem seems to be in a good place. Meanwhile, the builders do what they do best. Building apps to activate the Bitcoin economy.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Bitcoin Layer 2 Bridge XLink announces $50,000,000 in bridging volume leading up to XLink airdrop.

• Newman Capital VC stacks over $1,000,000 in STX via StackingDAO.

• New Bitcoin economy data platform named Signal21 announced, featuring the leading Bitcoin L2 and multiple Stacks protocols.

• EasyA hosted a Stacks workshop at Harvard University.

• Watch back the Building on Bitcoin live event with Muneeb Ali, Alexei Zamyatin, Laura Shin, Daniel Fogg, Trevor Owens, and more.

• Bitflow announces new trading pair in DEX, stSTX/sUSDT.

• Velar successfully completes its CoinFabrik Audit.

• Hermetica Finance teases stSTX vault for Hermetica.

😋 Other tasty content

• Binance features Stacks in Bitcoin Layers Deep Dive.

• Pantera Capital says that if Bitcoin demand increases, activity will have to occur on Layer 2 networks that can support higher transaction throughput and complexity, such as Stacks.

• From Pitch to Partnership: Asigna’s story on how they became the number one Bitcoin Multi-sig wallet.

• House of Chimera releases Bitcoin L2 protocol overview.

• Read Bear Capital invites Bitcoin Frontier Fund’s Kyle Ellicott to Red Beard Radio.'

• Stacks Signer Luganodes by Staking Rewards picked as top tier AAA staking provider.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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 - Sun, 10 Mar 2024

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Voting window for the Nakamoto Release SIP has officially ended, with the final results getting published in 4 days. Meanwhile, several efforts to onboard more developers to Bitcoin L2s have kicked-off. Exciting times for the Stacks ecosystem. Let’s dive into this week’s Stacks snacks! 🟧

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Voting for the Nakamoto Release Proposal has ended with preliminary indications showing strong support for the upgrade.

• EasyA announces 25 Stacks developer workshops & 25,000 developers to have completed Stacks developer challenges.

• Bitcoin L2 Hackathon “Ready Layer 2” kicked off this Friday, with free to attend workshops from ALEX, Xverse, Hiro, and more.

• Stacks reaches 1,000,000 unique wallets according to Signal21.

• Xverse celebrates $100,000,000+ Stacked in STX with the Xverse pool.

• Stacks welcomes 8 news signers, enhancing the network security and fostering greater decentralization.

• DeFi protocol ALEX sees trading volume on its decentralized exchange skyrocket to one Billion dollars.

😋 Other tasty content

• Meet the Stacks community in real life. Introducing the Nakamoto Launch Series: 30+ places you can join during the halving.

• Trust Machines introduces Orange Domains, a new protocol in partnership with Hiro Systems and Tucows.

• The Nakamoto release is upon us! Learn more about the rollout process that will bring Nakamoto to life.

• Xlink, a bridge between Ethereum and Bitcoin L2 Stacks, announces new referral system.

• Muneeb Ali shares Satoshi Nakamoto’s vision on Bitcoin L2s.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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, 15 Mar 2024

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This week, the Stacks community marked a significant milestone with the Pre-Launch Testnet, bringing us closer to the anticipated Nakamoto Release.

Developers can now choose to either immerse themselves in the Pre-Launch environment, or wait for the official Nakamoto Testnet, expected on March 25th, with an improved and smooth experience.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• The Nakamoto Release is in Pre-Launch Testnet. More information available in this thread.

• ALEX crosses 50,000 active wallets milestone in their app.

• StackingDAO breaks another milestone with over 25,000 unique active wallets.

• STX20 launches a significant enhancement to the STX20 ecosystem, involving smart contract transfers, airdrops, wrapping, and more!

• Bifrost announces pledge to support sBTC for their protocol.

• EasyA introduces next challenges within app to onboard their 750,000+ developer community to Bitcoin L2 Stacks

• Liquid Stacking Protocol LISA introduces launch timeline.

• Arkadiko announces partnership with Bitcoin Bridge XLink.

😋 Other tasty content

• Make sure to save your spot for one of the 30+ Nakamoto launch events.

• ALEX becomes largest DeFi protocol on the Bitcoin L2, overtaking Rootstock’s Sovryn in TVL, according to DeFillama.

• LunarCrush announces partnership with ALEX for liquidity providers.

• LunarCrush shares support for the Bitcoin L2 ecosystem with API for the Stacks explorer.

• Hundreds of developers kicked off the Ready Layer 2 hackathon. You still have a few days to join late and participate in one of the hackathon or pitch tracks.

• StackingDAO lits 5 facts about the protocol including integrations with Arkadiko, Zest Protocol, and Bitflow Finance.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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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