Stacks Snacks - Weekly Ecosystem News and Updates (Thread)

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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 07 Jun 2024

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A phenomenal week for the Stacks ecosystem! Grayscale goes all out to educate the world about Stacks, with a livestream and new introductory report on the leading Bitcoin L2. Meanwhile, ALEX is reopening its doors to their core userbase and Zest is integrating yet another asset. Let’s dive into this week’s Stacks Snacks!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Nakamoto Activation is getting closer. 63% of new issues are already completed. Read more.

• Bitcoin DEX ALEX reopens recovered pools for trading.

• Grayscale publishes Building Block: Stacks report by Michael Zhao.

• Followed by a Grayscale Deeper Dive on STX, live with Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali.

• BitcoinL2 Labs announces $1M Orange Hats security resources for the Clarity WG.

• Bitcoin DEX Velar announces Farming Rewards starting June 17th for the top 5 TVL Pools.

• Bitcoin L2 Stacks sets an all time high in STX denominated TVL.

• Zest Protocol announces Arkadiko’s DIKO deposits into Zest Protocol.

😋 Other tasty content

• Active wallets and transaction volume for Stacks hit a new all-time-high, according to Sakemate based on Signal21’s data.

• Stacks DeGrants committee announces opening of DeGrants applications for the program.

• Zest reaches 6,000 users in the first month after launching.

• Kiln announces integration of Stacks.

• EasyA publishes winners of the Stacks track at Consensus 2024.

• Join the most prominent Stacks builders next week during the Stacks Showcase livestream.

👋 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, 21 Jun 2024

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DeFiLlama shares that Stacks' Total Value Locked in Decentralized Finance apps has reached a new all time high of over 150M in locked STX. Moreover, the Bitcoin DeFi ecosystem continues to innovate with Bitflow introducing multiple upgrades based on the success of Ethereum DeFi protocols. Let’s dive into this week’s Stacks Snacks.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Bitflow announces their protocol emerging as the Liquidity Hub on Stacks, featuring their Aggregator, Deep Liquidity Curve style stable swaps, Uniswap-style liquidity pools and multiple trading routes.

• Stacks crossed 150M STX locked in Decentralized Finance applications, according to DeFi Llama.

• Liquid Stacking asset stSTX (Stacking DAO) becomes the most accessible Stacks based token in the ecosystem, community leaders say.

• Stacks community member Algorithm.btc shares Hiro’s Signer dashboard with over 30 Signers for Stacks post Nakamoto upgrade and sBTC.

😋 Other tasty content

• Ortege reports on unique Liquid Stackers for StackingDAO closing in on the 25,000 milestone.

• ICYMI: leading crypto asset manager Grayscale publishes STX Deeper Dive.

• The Stacks Foundation publishes new “Welcome to Stacks” educational article.

• The quarterly Stacks Town Hall took place, featuring the whole Stacks community.

• Hiro is offering paid UX Research for the Stacks explorer. Apply 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, 28 Jun 2024

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Scaling Runes with Bitcoin L2 Stacks? Scaling Ordinals? A seamless sBTC front end Bridge? The Stacks Foundation recently announced the approval of eleven Critical Bounties aimed at making exactly this happen. Meanwhile, Stacks sees its highest amount of active wallets, as well as an uptick in DeFi users. Let’s dive into this week’s Stacks Snacks.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Grayscale introduces Grayscale Research Top 20, including Stacks (STX).

• The Stacks Foundation announces the approval of eleven Critical Bounties that drive Stacks development forward.

• Stacks sees all time high in active accounts in June, reported by Signal21. This, as well as peaking in active users for the top decentralized finance applications.

• After sharing 40 Million USD trading volume since reopening, ALEX releases Platform Roadmap, enhancing ecosystem Value and Utility.

• StackingDAO announces partnership with Wintermute.

• Velar introduces Multi Hop Swaps for their Bitcoin L2 Stacks DEX.

😋 Other tasty content

• Trevor Owens announces to be speaking at the Bitcoin Builders Conference in Nashville.

• CoinMarketCap reports on Bitflow’s new Liquidity Hub announcements, elevating Bitcoin DeFi to Ethereum Ecosystem standards.

• Dapper shares Stacks Growth Analysis with Active accounts over 120,000, transaction volume hitting the 900,000,000 STX milestone, and many other metrics.

• Signal21 reports over 40 BTC paid out in the last stacking cycles to people locking up STX.

👋 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 Jul 2024

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Stacks wraps up a great quarter with Q2 2024 highlighting an all time high in monthly active accounts, the 1,200,000 cumulative wallets milestone reached, and over 100,000 new wallets created this quarter on the leading Bitcoin L2. Let’s dive into this week’s Stacks Snacks.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Stacks sees highest monthly active accounts ever reached, as reported by Signal21. This, as well as reaching the 1,200,000 cumulative wallets milestone.

• Trust Machines launches .locker, a domain and digital identity.

• Velar recaps 2 months of milestones with Stacks DEX multi hop swaps.

• Hiro Systems announces Stacks Explorer reduced waiting times by 50%.

• Bitflow Finance volume hits over $6,5M in transaction volume for June.

😋 Other tasty content

• The next month of “Code for STX” has started for developers to earn STX rewards.

• Velar announces official partnership with the Bitcoin Builders Conference.

• StackingDAO reports on stSTX injecting over 55M STX of liquidity into the Stacks DeFi ecosystem.

• Gecko Founder discussed how Gecko helps Clarity devs avoid having potential security vulnerabilities in their contract.

👋 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, 15 Jul 2024

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A massive double win for the Stacks ecosystem? Core developers reporting as of this week that they are code complete for the Stacks Nakamoto Activation! Meanwhile, the SEC has concluded investigation into the Stacks blockchain with no recommended enforcement action, confirming the Stacks ecosystem’s unique longstanding pursuit of compliance. Let’s dive into this week’s Stacks Snacks.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• The SEC has concluded a 3+ year investigation into the Stacks blockchain.

• Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali shares thoughts on the SEC news.

• The Stacks Nakamoto Release is code complete.

• Stacks introduces “Stacks Streets”, a gamified quest experience where new Stacks enthusiasts get to try out different Stacks applications.

• StackingDAO announces partnership with InfStones.

😋 Other tasty content

• Velar introduces Stacks’ monthly meme spaces.

• The next month of “Code for STX”, where you can earn STX for coding, is at its halfway point.

• House of Chimera shares one pager on Bitcoin L2 Stacks.

• Join Hermetica’s Founder Jakob, together with Zest Founder Tycho and StackingDAO Founder Philip during Tuesday’s DeFi show.

👋 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 Jul 2024

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As core developers for Stacks work towards the Nakamoto Release and sBTC, new partners get announced to bolster the decentralization of the ecosystem. BitGo, the sole Wrapped BTC Signer, joins the decentralized group of Signers for sBTC. This announcement is a huge step for sBTC as institutional BTC on the leading Bitcoin L2. Let’s dive into this week’s Stacks Snacks.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• The Signer for the largest Wrapped BTC asset BitGo integrates Stacks L2 & announces support for sBTC.

• Jeff @Stackatron announces new Bitcoin Stable Dollar (BSD or Based Dollar), backed by Bitcoin, with a new X account.

• ALEX announces Xbot BTC, a Stacks trading bot for Telegram.

• The Clarity Alliance gets announced, devoted to providing security to the top Stacks projects.

• Stacks Streets, a gamified experience with on-chain quests, goes live.

😋Other tasty content

• Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali joined a Stacks space with Bitlayer and other L2s.

• Zest Founder Tycho Onnasch recaps “alpha” shared on the Stacks DeFi Show.

• Stacking DAO teases new look for the liquid stacking app.

• ALEX and wrapped have integrated xBTC and xUSD to aBTC and sUSDT.

• Satoshi Club shares deep dive on Proof of Transfer (PoX).

👋 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 Aug 2024

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From Lightning to Runes, Ordinals to Stacks, last week saw the entire Bitcoin Builders ecosystem come together to celebrate Bitcoin as a productive asset. The sold out Bitcoin Builders Conference was brimming with exciting new ideas and innovations. In this special edition of Stacks Snacks, we will highlight some of the key moments that happened during the conference.

Prefer to watch the full conference instead? Click here to dive right in!

🍿 Conference Stacks Snacks

• Watch 👈️ Aptos Labs Neil Harounian and Stacks Foundation chairperson Brittany Laughlin announce that the Aptos Foundation will become a Signer for the Stacks Network, as well as the start of a working group.

• Watch 👈️ Trust Machines Rena Shah and Gina Abrams introduce the Bitcoin Names System V2.

• Watch 👈️ Hermetica’s Jakob Schillinger shares the USDh stablecoin launch on Bitcoin L2 Stacks is getting close.

• Watch 👈️ Zest Protocol’s Tycho Onnasch and Stacking DAO’s Philip de Smedt think Stacks is the preferred L2 for optimal security and future movement of BTC into layers.

• Watch 👈️ Bitflow Founder Dylan Floyd shares his ideas to scale Runes on via Bitcoin L2 Stacks.

• Watch 👈️ Velar CEO Mithil Thakore announces Bitcoin Perpetual Decentralized Exchange for Stacks post Nakamoto Upgrade.

• Watch 👈️ Bitcoin L2 Labs’ Andre Serrano shares ongoing research and investment into how BitVM can help reduce trust assumptions for sBTC in the future.

😋 Other tasty content

• Stacks Network wide community vote is live for SIP-027 Non-sequential Multisig Transactions.

• Bitflow and Leather announce upcoming release of native in-app Stacks asset swaps.

• The 10,000 STX ($20,000) prize pool on-chain user campaign led by the Stacks Foundation airdropped the first raffle tickets. Join now.

• Binance adds STX-USDC trading pair to their exchange.

• Newman Capital shares exciting updates from the Stacks ecosystem.

👋 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, 09 Aug 2024

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Exciting update from the Stacks core developers: the final code for the highly anticipated Nakamoto Upgrade will be delivered to network operators on August 28. Following this, the activation window will officially open, bringing us one step closer to this major milestone!

During this window, network operators will have Cycle 92 to upgrade. Pending a successful Signer handoff from Cycle 92 to 93, core devs will select the final hard fork block. More.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• The Stacks Foundation shares Core Developers plans for Nakamoto Activation sequence.

• Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali shares his thoughts on the Nakamoto Activation sequence.

• August 28, set a reminder for the Stacks Townhall: Nakamoto Edition.

• Token launchpad STX City releases STXCITY bonding curve.

• The official Stacks account shares a recap of achievements, as well as what to look for in the upcoming months.

😋 Other tasty content

• OurNetwork Founder Spencer Noon shares his thoughts on Stacks’ meteoric rise in active accounts.

• A friendly reminder for all developers to code, commit, and earn from a 10,000 STX prize pool with the Code for STX program.

• Are you a DeFi users? Complete challenges and earn NFT raffle tickets for a 10,000 STX prize pool with Stacks Streets.

• Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali joined Nick Grossman on his “the Slow Hunch” podcast.

👋 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 Aug 2024

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Have you caught the orange fever yet? The start of the Nakamoto Upgrade Activation sequence is almost upon us! This means that it’s only a matter of time for fast blocks, 100% Bitcoin finality, and after that sBTC on Stacks. App builders in the Stacks ecosystem are preparing their biggest and best feature upgrades to release within the upcoming months. We hope you’re as excited as we are 🧡

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• The Nakamoto Activation sequence starts on the 28th of August. Watch Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali discuss the timelines. Full article on the sequence available here.

• Bitflow releases complete Decentralized Exchange aggregator on Stacks to guarantee the best swap rates.

• Stacks Streets, a 10,000 STX initiative to invite more users to a thriving Stacks ecosystem, closes today. This is your last chance to join.

• Viking Swap integrates Velar SDK allowing all Velar token pairs to be listed on Viking Swap.

• Zest formally introduces the Clarity Alliance as part of making Stacks a more secure and safe ecosystem.

• Token launchpad Stacks City shares post-bonding curve feature and user growth.

😋 Other tasty content

• Are you a developer? Make sure to submit your code for Code for Stacks to earn from a monthly bounty pool of 10,000 STX.

• DeFi educator Ignas DeFi shares his top 15 for the end of 2024 including the Stacks Nakamoto upgrade.

• DeSpread publishes project report on StackingDAO.

• Defi news outlet Defiant publishes interview with Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali.

👋 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, 30 Aug 2024

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Last Wednesday marked the beginning of a sequence to safely bring the Nakamoto upgrade and its fast blocks and Bitcoin finality to the Stacks layer! To celebrate this, the Stacks ecosystem came together to select 21 days of events, big news, collaborations, giveaways, and more. 🧡

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Learn more about the beginning of Nakamoto activation and what’s next.

• Keep up with the 21 days of Nakamoto celebration calendar to learn about exciting updates around Stacks.

• Find out how CoinDesk, Decrypt, DL News, and other major outlets shared the exciting Nakamoto news.

• ALEX announces ALEX V2, including AMM & Orderbook fusion, a central liquidity hub, and more.

• Attention to all developers! The Stacks developer documents are revamped and improved.

😋 Other tasty content

• The Stacks community is attending Korean Blockchain Week on the 4th of September with the Nakamoto Revolution.

• Stacks City announces Bitflow SDK integration, enabling native token swaps.

• Listen back to the Stacks Town Hall: Nakamoto Edition.

• Stacking DAO shares how sBTC could lead to DeFi and StackingDAO growth.

• Two more days before this month’s 10,000 STX code for Stacks program deadline closes. Submit your code!

👋 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, 07 Sep 2024

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As the Nakamoto Release has started its activation sequence, the Stacks community is celebrating this with 21 days of events, giveaways, and exciting announcements. After the first week, we saw partnerships, events, and integrations get announced throughout the ecosystem. Let’s dive in!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• The Stacks Foundation announces BTC Bash, a virtual event to onboard the next generation of Bitcoin builders to Stacks. October 17th.

• Zest shares big news, bringing Stacks and Babylon together with Zest’s first BTC yield product: BTCz.

• Anchorage Digital announces custody support for Stacks.

• Xverse releases native in-wallet Stacks token swaps via Velar.

• Megapont releases whitelist for NFT collection celebrating the Nakamoto Release called Nakapack.

😋 Other tasty content

• The Decentralized Grants Program committee published list of awarded decentralized grants totalling $50,000 for cohort 2.

• Stackers from across the world gathered in Seoul Korea for Korea Blockchain week with the “Nakamoto Revolution” Stacks event.

• StackingDAO advocate shares exciting StackingDAO community statistics with 40,000 community and 36,000 unique users.

👋 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, 13 Sep 2024

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Wow! The public launch of the Stacks Asia Foundation, Bitcoin lending protocol Granite, mobile Stacks tokens swaps in the Xverse wallet, a Stacks hackathon at Harvard… the 21 Days of Nakamoto calendar keeps on giving. Three weeks packed with incredible news for the Stacks ecosystem. Let’s dive into this week’s Stacks Snacks.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• A new initiative called the Stacks Asia Foundation launches to focus on the Asian crypto market.

• Bitcoin lending protocol Granite, incubated by Trust Machines introduces itself to the public.

• Gamma partners with the Stacks Foundation to organise Bitcoin Unleashed in Amsterdam during the Bitcoin Conference.

• Xverse introduces Stacks Swaps on mobile thanks to Velar integration.

😋 Other tasty content

• EasyA announces Stacks hackathon at Harvard.

• Cross-Chain Oracle DIA shares Stacks integration.

• The Leo community shares achievements over the last year and NFT whitelist.

• Stacks DEX Bitflow reaches new all time high in daily active users.

• Signal21 introduces Stacks Decentralized Finance Overview dashboard.

• Grayscale hosted a spaces together with Stacks about institutional adoption 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, 20 Sep 2024

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Drum roll Stackers, it’s time to meet the Nakamoto hard fork block, meaning we now know just about when we can expect fast blocks and Bitcoin finality:

🟧 Lucky Bitcoin block number #864864, is currently expected on Wednesday, October 9th. Please make sure to read the full announcement for more details.

Mitchell Cuevas

In other news, developers are bringing Stacks’ sBTC to Solana, and Aptos is also planning to integrate sBTC. To celebrate the rise of Bitcoin as an asset on the leading Bitcoin L2, a new campaign called '₿est and the ₿rightest' has been introduced. Let’s dive in!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Core Developers have selected the Nakamoto Release hard fork block!

• ₿est and the ₿rightest campaign announced, featuring the best and brightest Bitcoin entities joining forces with the Stacks ecosystem.

• Stacks developers bring Bitcoin to the Aptos Network via sBTC.

• Tokensoft partners with the Stacks Foundation and Bitcoin Frontier Fund to accelerate Bitcoin builders.

• Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali shares Stacks developers are working on bringing Bitcoin (sBTC) to Solana.

• Gamma NFT Marketplace and creator platform for Ordinals and Stacks announces unifying both Stacks L2 and Bitcoin L1 for a seamless creator and collector experience.

😋 Other tasty content

• The Stacks and Ordinals community are joining forces during Bitcoin Unleashed Amsterdam!

• Stacks Asia Foundation Executive Director Kyle Ellicott talks about Stacks during one of the larger Solana Breakpoint side events.

• Bitflow launches a new explorer tab for all assets.

• Developer Education app EasyA celebrates 100,000 developers building on Stacks by refreshing the Stacks challenges in the app.

• The Stacks ecosystem joined Token 2049 and Solana Breakpoint in Singapore.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 27 Sep 2024

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We get it, when Nakamoto Hard fork? Check it out yourself. In the meantime, the Stacks ecosystem continues to ship, with Asigna, Hermetica, Anchor Digital, Crypto.com, and others releasing new products or integrations for Stacks.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Asigna announces Ledger Multisig support for the Stacks L2.

• Hermetica launches stablecoin USDh on Stacks.

• Anchor Digital’s institutional self-custody wallet Porto, now supports Stacks.

• Crypto.com announces stacking STX to receive BTC within their app.

• Building on Bitcoin Singapore organised by the Stacks Foundation saw 1000+ registered and hundreds watching.

😋 Other tasty content

• Grayscale Research announces Q4 2024 assets top 20 including STX / Stacks.

• DeSpread Co-Founder shares Executive Director Kyle Ellicott announcing the Stacks Asia Foundation.

• What does it mean to have 100% Bitcoin finality for Stacks post-Nakamoto? Diwaker Gupta explains in his Bitcoin Finality Deep Dive.

• Register for the BTC Bash virtual developer event and partake in over $20,000 of coding prizes.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 04 Oct 2024

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Nakamoto Release news: core developers further updated the test net with the latest stacks-core software Release Candidate 2. As they continue to work with builders, Signers, and others, they have decided to wait on picking a new block this week and instead plan to select one next week after they hard fork the Primary Stacks Testnet with this same rc2. More.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Solana shares Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali talking about bringing Stacks’ sBTC to Solana.

• Hermetica announces its stablecoin USDh to be live on DEX Velar, with 30x Hermetica points and 10K VELAR tokens per day for the first 30 days.

• Research group House of Chimera shares why Bitcoin needs Stacks.

• Leo, the community behind STX Tools, successfully mints out their celebratory NFT collection Leo Cats.

🎪 Events Special

• Stacks Foundation, in collaboration with Hiro, LearnWeb3, Trust Machines, and other partners release BTC Bash virtual developer event details and coding prizes.

• Bitcoin Unleashed Amsterdam, organized by Stacks and Gamma, is giving away tickets to the event in Amsterdam.

• EasyA announces multiple developer workshops focused on Stacks.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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This Week’s News & Stories - Sun, 13 Oct 2024

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Another milestone has just been passed for the Nakamoto Release, bringing us closing to fast blocks and Bitcoin finality on Mainnet. The Primary Testnet has been successfully hard-forked and is running the full Nakamoto release. What’s next? Core developers will observe stable behavior on Primary Testnet for at least 5 consecutive days and expect to select a Mainnet hard fork date after. More

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Leather integrates Bitflow to allow native in-app swaps of any Stacks token.

• The Stacks Core developers deploy the Nakamoto Hard fork on Primary Testnet.

• LearnWeb3 teases special challenges for developing on Stacks via the LearnWeb3 Stacks developer degree.

• Leo Founder shares community effort to get Stacks listed on Dex Screener.

• BTCz, Babylon BTC on Stacks, now open for early access on Zest.

😋 Other tasty content

• BTC Bash, educating developers about Bitcoin, Runes, and Stacks under the hood, is happening in four days, October 17th.

• Stacks’ No Code tool NoCodeClarity shares first no code hackathon.

• Xverse integrates Bitlow, ALEX, and Velar for native in-app swaps.

• EasyA shares exciting workshops about Stacks in Hong Kong.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 18 Oct 2024

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Hey Stackers, we’re back, back with a block. The block 🟧

Nakamoto Activation will be finalized at Bitcoin Block #867,867

Currently, this block is projected to occur on October 29th. Fittingly, just before the Bitcoin whitepaper’s 15th birthday, you’ll have fast blocks on the leading Bitcoin L2.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Nakamoto Activation will be finalized at Bitcoin Block #867,867, currently projected to occur on October 29th More info.

• Leading Crypto Asset Manager Grayscale shares research paper on L2 Stacks.

• Hermetica, the team behind Stacks stablecoin USDh, secures $1.7M in seed funding.

• Virtual Bitcoin developer event BTC Bash took place with thousands attending. Watch it back!

😋 Other tasty content

• Signal21 publishes Stacks September 2024 data snapshot with Smart contracts deployed up 74%.

• Stacks educator shares future decentralized finance opportunities for users.

• ALEX is rolling out Initial LP Smart Contract Lock & Initial LP Burn.

• Granite’s Blaize joined DIA’s X Space to talk about Stacks and DIA.

👋 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, 27 Oct 2024

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Hey Stackers, we’re less than two days out from fast blocks and Bitcoin finality on the leading Bitcoin L2 🟧

Nakamoto Activation will be finalized at Bitcoin Block #867,867

We’re all incredibly excited for the Nakamoto Upgrade to activate! But first, let’s dive into the latest highlights from the Stacks ecosystem this week.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• When Nakamoto? Check out this awesome countdown! Meanwhile, register for the Nakamoto Townhall.

• Bitflow shares Runes Automated Market Maker on Stacks coming soon.

• The amount of new Stacks accounts per month doubled month-over-month.

• Asymmetric joins as security provider for the Stacks ecosystem.

• Stacks based Digital Identity protocol .Locker launches.

• The Stacks Foundation releases upcoming community vote for SIP-028: sBTC Signer Criteria.

😋 Other tasty content

• Megapont’s Nakamoto celebratory mint called Nakapack details revealed.

• The Leo community launches STX Tools V5 with premium features live for Leo holders and subscribers.

• The ALEX Lab Foundation created a proposal to unlock ALEX token for an ALEX Surge Campaign.

• Hermetica shares week 43 APY for USDh being over 20%.

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 08 Nov 2024

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As Stacks Core Engineers focus on boosting throughput for Bitcoin's leading L2 post-Nakamoto upgrade, a new initiative, Bitcoin L2 Labs, emerges with a mission to onboard more Core Developers. At the same time, the Stacks developer community gears up to build the next DeFi powerhouse app at Harvard University. Let’s dive in!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Head of Product Andre Serrano announces Bitcoin L2 Labs to advance core development for the leading Bitcoin L2 Stacks.

• Muneeb shares excitement regarding $20M new Stacks entity Bitcoin L2 Labs.

• EasyA introduces the speakers of the upcoming EasyA Stacks Harvard Hack, starting this weekend.

• Stacks Asia Foundation celebrates its latest partnership with Hex Trust.

• Velar amplifies continuation of boosted VELAR rewards for several pools.

😋 Other tasty content

• Decentralized Finance educator Stacy Muur weighs in on the Stacks Nakamoto Upgrade.

• Velar announces to sponsor Building on Bitcoin Bangkok with the Stacks Foundation.

• Hermetica shares latest statistics on APY for stablecoin USDh including tutorial on how to do so.

• Grayscale shares additional information on this year’s released Stacks Trust.

👋 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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