Stacks Snacks - Weekly Ecosystem News and Updates (Thread)

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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 04 Aug 2023

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This week: News from Velar, Deep Lake, DLC Link, Magic Protocol, ALEX, and more. Plus: Allbridge releases a Stacks bridge connecting Stacks to 19 chains!

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Allbridge releases a Stacks bridge, connecting Stacks to 19 chains

• VelarBTC launched their beta on Mainnet

• Learn more about Deep Lake’s Bitcoin toolkit via this week’s Spaces

• DLC_link announces their wallet integration with Hiro

• Magic Protocol announces $50K liquidity supply enabling BTC —> xBTC swapping on Stacks

• CaptainAltCoin: Why is ALEX Lab Surging? Unmaking the Bitcoin Uniswap

• Bitcoin Writes: The sBTC July recap

• 🎉 Catch us in London October 19-21! 🎉

📅 July 28th: Bitcoin L2 sBTC pitch competition

Join us and pitch, connect with mentors and judges, and win prizes. Register today.

😋 Other tasty content

• House of Chimera’s episode on all things Stacks

• Alex Xela: Stacks' Recipe for Less Hackable, More Transparent, and Ultra-Secure Smart Contracts

• Stacks Foundation’s Q2 quarterly recap and Q3 OKR introductions

• Trust Machines: Bitcoin Independence Day and the Enduring Block Size Debate

• Xverse: Bitcoin Layers - What Are They and Why Do They Matter?

👋 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, 11 Aug 2023

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This week: fundraising news from Xverse, Hiro’s Chainhook launches, spotlights on Stacks, and more ecosystem wins!

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Congrats to Xverse on a $5M fundraising round!

• Introducing Chainhook, from Hiro

• L2 DeFi startup Hermetica Finance reports on their latest yield

• SIP10 token swaps (like $STX <> $ALEX) within the Xverse Bitcoin Wallet are live!

• Maintain liquidity while Stacking with Papaya 🤩

• 🎉 Catch us in London October 19-21! 🎉

📅 August 18th: Bitcoin L2 sBTC pitch competition

Join us and pitch, connect with mentors and judges, and win prizes. Register today.

😋 Other tasty content

• Trust Machines’ Muneeb Ali: The Most Exciting Thing about Bitcoin Summer

• Lead Like a Gardener: Governance at the Stacks Foundation

• Xverse: What are .Sats names on Bitcoin?

• Trust Machines: Scaling Solution of the Week - Subnets

• Stacks: Bitcoin’s Future Internet Blueprint via JGuru

• Introducing Zin, a browser for the Bitcoin internet

• Lead Like a Gardener: Governance at the Stacks Foundation

👋 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, 18 Aug 2023

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This week: You can now create a STX account in Ledger Live Desktop + Mobile to send and receive STX! Plus, spotlight on LNSwap, 5 innovative use cases for L2 smart contracts, & more.

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Stacks Joins Ledger Live: Unlock Bitcoin Capabilities Securely

• Check out the X Spaces recording all about the Ledger Live integration

• Introducing the Gamma Partner Program

• Zest: Chainhooks a major step forward for Bitcoin DeFi

• Kicking off Today: The Ready Layer 2 Pitch Competition!

• Trust Machines App Spotlight: LNSwap

📅 October 19-12: Bitcoin Unleashed in London

Join us for live demos, technical workshops, keynote speeches, parties, panels, and discussions on everything from DeFi to decentralized gaming, NFTs, Ordinals, Regulation and more. Learn more + Register! 🎟️

😋 Other tasty content

• The Coin Republic: STX Blockchain - Advantages and List of the Popular NFTs

• Foundation: 5 Innovative Use Cases for Bitcoin L2 Smart Contracts

• Stacks Community: The Next Stacks Update & Exciting Bitcoin Innovation

• Trust Machines: Bitcoin Scaling Solution of the Week: Layer 2s

• Bitcoin Apostle (blog): Stacks - The Ultimate Savings Account

👋 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, 25 Aug 2023

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This week: Between the Ready Layer 2 pitch competition and an in-person sBTC hackathon, builders have been busy! Check out winners below, sBTC updates, and more news.

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

• The Ready Layer 2 Pitch Competition wraps!

  • 1st Place Winner: StacksBot - an onboarding and educational tool for the Stacks ecosystem. View the StacksBot pitch here.

  • 2nd Place Winner: BTX - trade perpetually, trade decentralized. View the BTX pitch here.

  • 3rd Place Winner: Asigna - Creating a secure and non-custodial multisig wallet for Stacks. Learn more about Asigna here.

• Updates from last week’s sBTC in-person hackathon & more

• Devs: now you can build smart contracts with access to Pyth’s 300+ price feeds

• September 6: “We are Bitcoin Hiros” event, ft. Stacks, Hiro, Trust Machines, DeSpread, ALEX, Xverse, Spartan

• (also) September 6: Stacks Town Hall —> Set a Reminder!

📅 October 19-12: Bitcoin Unleashed in London

Join us for live demos, technical workshops, keynote speeches, parties, panels, and discussions on everything from DeFi to decentralized gaming, NFTs, Ordinals, Regulation and more. Learn more + Register! 🎟️

😋 Other tasty content

• Xverse’s introduction to the Stacks ecosystem

• CoinGecko’s top Layer 2s to Watch (hint: Stacks is one)

• Devs & Builders: Don’t forget about weekly office hours for Clarity in Discord

👋 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 Sep 2023

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This week: Bitcoin wallet providers & decentralized finance protocols have been working overtime with multiple integrations, announcements, and… a rebrand? Let’s dive into the tasty snacks of this week 👇

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Hiro Wallet is now called Leather! Trust Machines announces Leather to be part of its app portfolio.

• Bitcoin assets are now within reach for all OKX Wallet's DEX users thanks to OKX’ integration with DeFi protocol ALEX.

• LunarCrush introduces $LUNR on the Stacks network via ALEX

• Hardware wallet Ryder announces partnership with ALEX.

• Bitcoin Unleashed London announces first speakers with Muneeb Ali, Jameson Lopp & more.

• Bitcoin Startup Lab Bitcoin hackathon submission deadline in 30 days

• Indexer xyz launches the Indexer Notification System on Stacks

• Sustainable Bitcoin Protocol announces Copper custody support.

📅 September 6: Stacks Q3 Townhall

Join the Stacks Core Engineers & other guests during next week’s Stacks Townhall & receive the latest news around sBTC & the Stacks Nakamoto release. Get involved by submitting a question for the Core engineers here 👈

😋 Other tasty content

• 5 innovative use cases for Bitcoin L2 smart contracts.

• Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali shares his excitement for the upcoming Stacks updates.

• House of Chimera on why Bitcoin needs Stacks.

• The Stacks community picks most promising DeFi protocol

• Free Bitcoin L2 Primer course available.

👋 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, 08 Sep 2023

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This week: New opportunities to become a bigger part of the Stacks community! Accelerate your Bitcoin project or take part in discussions around improving the Stacks network.

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Degen Lab launches Decentralized Stacking Pools on testnet. Create your own stacking pool via their open source code or join their new stacking pool.

• Stacking DAO reveals itself to the Stacks community, aiming to deliver liquid stacking.

• Bitcoin Frontier Fund announces Stacks projects also eligible for the new accelerator cohort.

• The Stacks community Grants working group held a meeting on the proposal submission process.

• Hiro Systems CEO Alex Millers announces his speaker spot at Bitcoin Unleashed London.

• ALEX Founder Chiente Hsu reveals over $23 million in BRC-20 trading on ALEX’ Stacks L2 scaling solution for BRC-20 trading.

📅 Deadline in 10 days: Bitcoin Startup Lab

Entry to the Bitcoin Oympics, a hackathon initiated by the Bitcoin Startup Lab accelerator program, closes in 10 days. The Bitcoin Olympics marathon features prizes to build with Stacks. View Bitcoin Startup Lab’s tweet here.

😋 Other tasty content

• STX:LDN Launches the Community Builders Initiative.

• sBTC Product Lead Andre Serrano shares the latest news around sBTC and Stacks Core development.

• CryptoDep celebrates Stacks as coin of the day based on social interactions.

• OKX lists latest integrations including ALEX.

• ALEX Founder Chiente Hsu shares Nakamoto Proposal V1 created by Jude Nelson.

👋 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, 16 Sep 2023

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This week: Bitcoin DeFi entity ALEX once again shows what scaling the Bitcoin economy is about. Furthermore, as sBTC testnet is arriving soon, builder hackathons and developer focused events are thriving.

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

• ALEX reveals the world’s first on-chain indexer for BRC-20 tokens, made possible with Bitcoin L2 Stacks.

• Bitcoin Wallet application Xverse announces official Ledger support for $STX.

• Stacks Foundation Director of Activation Mitchell Cuevas shares proposal for working group process in the Stacks ecosystem.

• Degen Lab shares decentralized stacking pool Testnet Cycle happening soon.

• Trust Machines reveals attendance and speaking spots at Bitcoin Unleashed London.

• 500,000+ developer community EasyA announces 60 Days of Stacks challenge for developers.

• Learn Web 3 hosts the Decentralized Intelligence hackathon season 1 including challenges for building with Bitcoin L2 Stacks.

😋 Other tasty content

• Early Bird application deadline for Bitcoin Frontier Fund accelerator due today

• Stacks Australia hosted Ready Layer 2 builders connect spaces with winning RL2 pitch groups.

• Final submission date (September 30) closing in for Bitcoin Olympics hackathon.

• Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali spoke at Bitcoin Builders Signapore event, as well as Aubrey Strobel with Ryder Co-Founder Louise & Hiro CEO Alex Miller

• Bitcoin Wallet Leather shares possibilities of connecting with Bitcoin applications like Magic Eden, Gamma, Velar and Sigle.

👋 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 Sep 2023

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This Week: we’re at the start of exciting times for the Stacks community, with the sBTC Developer Release officially announced and submissions for the testnet program now open.

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

• The official announcement of the sBTC Developer Release! The sBTC working group expects to deliver the developer release the week of October 18th.

• Are you a developer or decentralized application user? Apply for the closed sBTC testnet program.

• Paul Veradittakit publishes a deep dive on Stacks, addressing Bitcoin scalability and more!

• Stacks smart contract language Clarity expert Marvin Janssen highlights achievements of the Clarity working group.

• Learnweb3 Decentralized Intelligence hackathon officially starts with a grand prize to build with Stacks & AI.

😋 Other tasty content

• Are you in London on October 19-20? Make sure to join the Bitcoin Unleashed event!

• Decentralized Finance Protocol ALEX shares first newsletter discussing the On-chain Indexer & Liquidity Pool Migration.

• Bitcoin Wallet CEO Ken Liao names Stacks as his favorite scaling option for the Bitcoin economy.

• Bitcoin L2 DeFi protocol Velar shares educational post on DeFi perpetual markets.

👋 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 Sep 2023

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This Week: Decentralized Finance protocols on Bitcoin share exciting news and a recently released Bitcoin ecosystem map shows the impact the Stacks ecosystem has had on the Bitcoin economy.

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Trust Machines shares Sora Ventures Bitcoin utility map, with Stacks entities like ALEX, Bitflow, Zest, Stackswap, Gamma, and others taking up most of builders ecosystem.

• ALEX Lab rebrands to the Finance Layer on Bitcoin, launching Bitcoin Lab ecosystem fund.

• Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol on L2 Stacks surpasses 17.5K waitlist milestone for BTC swaps.

• DeFi protocol Velar integrates the Xverse app on both web and mobile.

• Layer 1 Foundation reports ALEX Lab proposing BRC-20 Oracle integration framework

😋 Other tasty content

• >500K developer community EasyA announces 60 days of Stacks developer challenge to be released next Tuesday.

• Physical Wallet Ryder announces Co-Founder Louise to be speaking at Bitcoin Unleashed in London.

• The Stacks London community shares appreciation for everyone attending the developer sessions, focused on onboarding more developers to Stacks.

• Hero Gamer publishes application form for De-Grant pilot, a program designed by the community for the community to receive support.

• Publius.btc shares ideas for sBTC startups.

👋 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, 06 Oct 2023

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This Week: Bitcoin startup and accelerator programs are gearing up for their next cohorts, while large developer communities are getting onboarded to building with Bitcoin on Layer 2 Stacks.

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Former Stacks Foundation Grantee DLC Link announces $2 Million pre-seed funding round.

• Bitcoin Frontier Fund announces last month to apply for the Bitcoin startup accelerator program.

• Bitcoin Startup Lab announces new cohort submissions now open, calling out all Stacks builders to join.

• Stacks Improvement Proposal community call host announces series on sBTC education starting today at 12PM EST.

• 500K+ developer community EasyA releases “building with Stacks” challenges in mobile application.

😋 Other tasty content

• ALEX, recently rebranded to the finance layer for Bitcoin, teases use cases that are build on the ALEX layer: cross-chain bridge between Ethereum, Bitcoin and Stacks and cross-chain swap, Liquid Stacking and more.

• Xverse shares Stacking cycle #69 started this Friday.

• sBTC Product Lead Andre Serrano discusses what’s ahead for sBTC during the latest Stacks X spaces.

• 👉 Are you a developer or user that wants to try out sBTC? Sign up for the testnet program 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 - 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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