Stacks Snacks - Weekly Ecosystem News and Updates (Through March 2026)

This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 27 Mar 2026

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Gm Stackers 🟠

🍿 Stacks Snacks

📆 Coming Up

  • Growing Bitcoin kicks off next Tuesday. It is a 6 week virtual series on yield strategies and putting your BTC to work. There’s still time to register.

👀 Other Tasty Content

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 03 Apr 2026

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

  • Stacks Q1 2026 delivered. Two-year highs across the board with highest transaction volume since Jan 2024, peak active accounts since June 2024, and record contract deployments since March 2023.

  • Growing Bitcoin kicked off with a Muneeb fireside chat on Bitcoin staking and shifting the mindset from "earning yield" to "earning income in Bitcoin.”

  • House of Chimera broke down the Dual Stacking mechanism on Stacks. Worth a read if you want to understand how it works under the hood.

  • Hermetica hit their 25 BTC cap for hBTC. Demand is becoming real.

  • 7.37 BTC just went out to 9,620 wallets in Stacking Cycle 131. Proof of Transfer keeps delivering.

📆 Coming Up

  • Next Growing Bitcoin session happens in 2 weeks! Institutional Bitcoin: Strategy Beyond Market Cycles. Register now.

👀 Other Tasty Content

  • Buidl Battle winners are in. Say congrats to our winners 🎉

  • ICYMI: Stacks Roadmap session. Catch up on where things are heading with Bitcoin Staking.

  • Nearly 15K visited Zero Authority in 90 days to engage with the SIP Tracker and governance on Stacks 👀

  • Talent Protocol rewards for March are live for Stacks builders. Now let’s run it back in April ⚒️

  • Read the blog on self-custodial Bitcoin Staking and what it means for Stacks. If you haven't read this yet, now's the time.

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 10 Apr 2026

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💸 Big News

Stacks Is Leading AI Activity on Bitcoin L2s

  • New research from Tenero Research (covered in Business Insider) shows Stacks is leading AI agent activity across Bitcoin L2s. The takeaway: when AI agents transact, they're choosing Bitcoin as their currency (48% of the time). And they're doing it on Stacks.

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📆 Coming Up

  • Next up on the Growing Bitcoin virtual series 👉 Institutional Bitcoin: Strategy Beyond Market Cycles. Drop in for the institutional playbook on making your BTC work harder. Register here for April 16.

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 17 Apr 2026

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  • Whales are stacking up on Zest. One borrowed 69,000 USDCx and hours later another took out 100,000 USDCx, both getting paid to borrow (3.38% sBTC yield vs 1.10% borrow rate).

  • Zest also reaches 880 sBTC in TVL 🔥

  • Missed Growing Bitcoin Session 2? Rena and Gordon Grant from Bitwise broke down institutional Bitcoin strategy beyond market cycles. Replay is live on X and Youtube.

  • Tenero dropped a 7 day overview of Stacks onchain. Quick insight into network activity.

📆 Coming Up

  • Builder Bash is coming. RSVP here. A live virtual showcase with updates from Hermetica, Bitflow, Zest, Xverse, Boom, AIBTC, and more. If you want a pulse check on where Bitcoin DeFi, staking, and infrastructure are headed on Stacks, this is the event to join.

👀 Other Tasty Content

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 24 Apr 2026

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Gm Stackers, it really was a big week around here!

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  • Hermetica drops hBTC. A new self-custodial earn vault on Stacks where you deposit native BTC and get native BTC back, with yield sourced from multiple places including Strategy's $STRC ( ▲ 0.12% ) . Business Insider picked up the news too.

  • USDCx lands on Allbridge Core. That means USDC (and USDT) from 16 other chains now has a direct on ramp to Bitcoin DeFi on Stacks. Please note: Allbridge Classic sunsets at the end of April, so if you're holding aeUSDC, migrate now.

  • Stacking Cycle #132 paid out 6.27 BTC to 9,645 wallets. Bitcoin yield straight from Proof of Transfer.

📆 Coming Up

  • Set your reminder for the Stacks Town Hall next week. Big announcements incoming. You are not going to want to miss this one.

👀 Other Tasty Content

  • Zest is cooking something. They dropped a "soon" and left it at that 👀

  • Stacking DAO breaks its own record with 110M STX in deposits. A new all time high. Appetite for yield on Stacks keeps heating up.

  • Bitflow just hit $1B in volume through their concentrated liquidity engine in 6 weeks flat. We’re seeing real usage here.

  • Rand Group spotlights Stacks with Bitcoin dominance pushing back toward 60%, most of that capital is just sitting idle. They called out Stacks as the play for making BTC productive through lending, trading, and DeFi.

  • Gamma has a new home. Trust Machines is taking full ownership and going all in on the platform. Everything stays live for creators and collectors.

  • Missed Builder Bash? The top builders in Stacks went live with product updates and roadmaps, covering everything from hBTC to HODLMM and beyond.

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 01 May 2026

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😋 Stacks Snacks

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  • A whale just borrowed 5.89 BTC against their collateral to earn up to 8% APY in the hBTC vault. Yep, getting paid to borrow. The Stacks DeFi loop in action.

  • We know serious Bitcoin holders won't touch DeFi without self-custody. Stacks is building the first Bitcoin Staking product that solves that, with yield paid in BTC.

  • Bitcoin Yield just dropped their latest rankings and 2 Stacks apps are in the top strategies. Hermetica's hBTC vault is sitting at #1 with 5.59% APY (paid in BTC) and Zest is on the board at 1.63%.

  • Stablecoins from Solana, Sui, Base, Polygon, and more can now bridge directly to Stacks through Allbridge Core. Check out the list of supported routes.

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 15 May 2026

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📰 Big News: Bitcoin Staking Whitepaper

The Bitcoin Staking whitepaper is live. This is a proposal for what we think the future of Stacks looks like, and the idea is simple:

  • You keep your Bitcoin in your custody and you earn yield in Bitcoin.

  • There are no bridges or wrappers involved, nobody else holding your keys.

  • You lock your BTC on the Bitcoin L1, pair it with a small amount of STX, and earn yield paid in Bitcoin.

  • If you need your BTC back early, there's an early exit option built in.

  • There is no slashing and no protocol level principal loss.

  • It's built on Proof of Transfer, the same consensus mechanism that's been live since 2021 and has already distributed over 4,200 BTC to stackers.

This isn't live yet, it's a proposal. But this is the direction we're headed: a world where individuals and institutions can grow and manage their bitcoin without ever giving up custody.

If you want to go deeper, we launched the Bitcoin Staking Resource Hub, which has everything you need to learn about Bitcoin Staking. And if you want to hear directly from leadership, catch the recording here.

😋 Stacks Snacks

👀 Other Tasty Content

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 22 May 2026

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📰 Bitcoin Staking Whitepaper

Last week we dropped the Bitcoin Staking whitepaper. This week we published the 7 institutional grade features that make it different. If you read one thing this week, make it this.

Twitter tweet

😋 Stacks Snacks

  • $ZEST is officially live. Listed across big name exchanges, season 1 airdrop is out, and the $ZEST ( ▲ 32.67% ) / $STX ( ▲ 4.0% ) pool on Bitflow did $1M+ in swap volume in the first 24 hours, turning capital 14x its TVL.

  • Bitcoin Yield dropped their quarterly report on Stacks. Stackers earned an estimated 9.27 BTC in Q1 through Dual Stacking alone. The report covers which products attracted the most capital, how the top 4 compare, and what to watch next. The report was also featured on Bitcoin.com.

👀 Other Tasty Content

  • Big week for Stacks coverage. Three independent reports dropped: Stacy Muur broke down the value of STX with Bitcoin Staking, Rand Group dug into how $1.57T in idle Bitcoin actually starts earning, and DeFi Warhol did a full ecosystem dive on why Stacks is the top project that held up after the L2 hype dried up.

  • Rena Shah from the Stacks Endowment joined The Tie's Innovator Series on what crypto products will actually see long term traction.

  • SIP-031 grantee Skullcoin just shipped Strike's first onboarding wave as a new gaming experience on Stacks.

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 29 May 2026

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😋 Stacks Snacks

👀 Other Tasty Content

  • Tenero mapped out the Bitcoin Staking Funnel. $1.5T+ in idle BTC sitting in wallets, ETFs, and treasuries doing nothing. Their take: self custodial staking on Stacks is the chokepoint that wakes it all up.

  • Bitcoin News covered the Bitcoin Yield Q1 report and called Stacks "one of the clearer yield dashboards and one of the most active BTC lending venues." Not our words 👀

  • Missed the Stacks Monthly Ecosystem Update? Catch the recording.

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 05 Jun 2026

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Gm Stackers

Here's a thought to end your week: BTC treasury companies are increasingly getting pressured to sell while ETH quietly earns ~3% protocol yield just for showing up. Bitcoin holders shouldn't have to choose between holding and earning. Making idle BTC productive is exactly the problem Bitcoin Staking on Stacks is built to solve.

😋 Stacks Snacks

  • The PoX-5 SIP is here. The first draft that brings Bitcoin Staking to Stacks. The authors have asked for feedback from the community and core contributors before it moves to a ratification vote. Read the draft and share your thoughts.

  • $ZEST is now live on Binance Futures with up to 10x leverage 🍊

  • Stacking Cycle #135 paid out 2.65 BTC to 9530 wallets. Bitcoin yield, straight from Proof of Transfer.

👀 Other Tasty Content

  • The team was on the ground at Proof of Talk in Paris this week, talking to institutions about Bitcoin Staking and what productive BTC actually looks like.

  • Stacking DAO is loading something 👀 keep an eye on this one.

  • EnterStacks just crossed 500+ active users and 1,000+ Play Store downloads off their first growth campaign. Big milestone for one of our grantees building mobile first access to Stacks 🟧

  • RR2 Capital + Rand Group break down why Bitcoin Staking on Stacks is built for institutions: a single, quantifiable risk surface, BTC redeemable in ~10 minutes, and principal and yield denominated in BTC.

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 12 Jun 2026

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Momentum is building around native Bitcoin Staking, and the market is making it clear there's real demand for this product. A major launch partner signed on, and Q2 grants are back open for builders. Let's dig in.

😋 Stacks Snacks

  • Q2 2026 Grants are open. The Stacks Endowment is backing builders advancing Bitcoin-native finance across DeFi & perps, RWAs, agentic apps, and privacy. Not sure what to build? Their curated requests for projects map the real gaps across all four themes.

👀 Other Tasty Content

  • Castle Labs lays out how Stacks solves Bitcoin's capital problem. Most BTC earns nothing, and the yield options that exist force you to give up custody, wrap, or bridge off mainnet. Their take: Proof of Transfer turns miner BTC bids into native yield, so your coins stay on L1 and the incentives line up end to end.

  • Spotting our orange self in Tier 2 of House of Chimera's "L2 by TVL" Orbit. Self-custodial Bitcoin Staking is how we climb to #1 👀

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 19 Jun 2026

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😋 Stacks Snacks

  • The Fireblocks x Stacks integration is live. 2,400+ institutional clients now have a direct path to Bitcoin DeFi, with lending, trading, and BTC yield through the same custody setup they already rely on.

  • A Fireblocks webinar is coming up next week. A session on what institutional access to Bitcoin DeFi unlocks, from custody grade infrastructure to native BTC yield through Bitcoin Staking. Register here.

  • Dropping this here in case you forgot how Bitcoin grows on Stacks 🟧

👀 Other Tasty Content

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 26 Jun 2026

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😋 Stacks Snacks

  • Good news if you juggle wallets: Leather's browser extension now supports multiple wallets at once. Keep a Ledger and a software wallet side by side and switch between them in one click.

  • Stacks teamed up with Fireblocks this week for a webinar on how institutional-grade infrastructure helps grow Bitcoin by bringing institutional capital into native BTC yield. Catch the replay if you missed it.

  • Whales keep stacking on Zest Protocol. When sBTC out earns the cost of borrowing USDC, they borrow more. Simple as that.

👀 Other Tasty Content

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 03 Jul 2026

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😋 Stacks Snacks

  • The Stacks Treasury Committee dropped its Q2 2026 community update. The theme is all in on Bitcoin Staking. Testnet is live, mainnet's on track, Q2 grants have closed, and DeGrants is back under community stewardship.

  • Agents are now paying agents in USDC, settled on Bitcoin. USDCx on Stacks is the first USDC-backed stablecoin in Circle's new mpp spec, bringing machine to machine commerce to Bitcoin through Stacks.

  • STX cracked #40 in Coinbase's COIN50, the benchmark built for institutional allocators. Good signal of where STX sits on the institutional radar 👀

  • Hermetica dropped its June attestation report for USDh. Assets backing the stablecoin sit off exchange in institutional custody, with ~$2.47M in supply on Stacks.

👀 Other Tasty Content

  • You can now swap $ZEST right on the Zest webapp. More chains coming 🔜.

  • Missed Tuesday's Stacks Monthly Ecosystem Update? Hear the latest on Bitcoin Staking from ecosystem leaders, core apps, and special guests.

  • Reubs hosted another Stacks Community Town Hall and the team answered questions live. Catch the replay if you missed it.

  • Stacks x Fireblocks dived into how Stacks’ institutional-grade infrastructure brings big capital into native BTC yield.

  • The DeFi Edge digs into Ethereum's funding crisis. A strong contrast to yield built on real Bitcoin economics.

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 10 Jul 2026

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😋 Stacks Snacks

  • Liquid staked Bitcoin is coming to Stacks. StackingDAO is launching stBTC for the upcoming Bitcoin Staking release. Stake your BTC, earn a base yield, and keep that capital working across lending and trading. Business Insider picked it up too.

  • Stacks Labs CEO, Alex Miller, sat down with UTXO Management's Head of Investor Relations, Loren Asmus, to discuss why they're joining Bitcoin Staking as one of the first launch partners. As Loren put it: "That's the ethos of Bitcoin, holding your own keys."

  • Community DeGrants are back. Applications are open through Sunday, July 26. This cohort is funding community led projects that strengthen culture, education, adoption, and engagement across Stacks. You can apply on Zero Authority DAO.

👀 Other Tasty Content

  • The community vote on SIP 044 and SIP 045 is kicking off today. Both cover big ground: Bitcoin Staking and Clarity 6. Read up before you vote.

  • This is what AI agents transacting on Bitcoin looks like: autonomous agents holding sBTC, messaging, and paying each other on Stacks.

  • Bitflow just crossed $4B in volume 🤯 building Bitcoin capital markets that settle on Bitcoin.

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 17 Jul 2026

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  • Decentralized Finance Analyst "Warhol" released a deep dive on why last week's announcement of stBTC is crucial for the Bitcoin-native finance ecosystem to get bootstrapped.

  • Bitflow passes a whopping $5B in txn volume and $575M swap volume, all time.

  • Zest releases protocol numbers, with 81% of all TVL on Stacks currently on Zest's lending market.

  • Bitcoin Staking SIP governance process is looking positive, with the 80M STX threshold met and an overwhelming yes vote. Cast your vote now!

👀 Other Tasty Content

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 24 Jul 2026

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The PoX-5 upgrade is moving toward activation. Below is a look at what has shipped, what is coming, and what it means for stackers.

📍 The Bitcoin Staking Timeline

A Bitcoin Staking Roadmap page is now live to track everything in one place, from timelines and links to posts and updates. Here’s where things stand:

  • Completed: The Stacks community approved SIP-044 (Clarity 6) and SIP-045 (Bitcoin Staking) through the SIP governance process, with over 99.99% of votes in favor of both.

  • Live now: The PoX-5 Public Testnet is up, so builders can test their protocols against the Bitcoin Staking release.

  • ~July 29: The PoX-5 mainnet hard fork target date (Bitcoin block 960230). Clarity 6 and Bitcoin Staking go live together.

  • Late August: The Genesis Bond follows and the first BTC is bonded.

🍴 What the Hard Fork Means for You

  • The hard fork targeted on ~July 29 will unlock all stacked STX. Stackers will restack after the fork to keep earning BTC rewards, and signers, pools, and miners will upgrade their nodes before activation. Guides will follow to walk stackers through each step of the scheduled process, so keep an eye out.

😋 Stacks Snacks

  • The Stacks Q2 2026 Ecosystem Report is out. Cumulative Stacks users passed 1.6 million, up 8.0% quarter over quarter, and new wallet creation rose 53% to 110,000. The full report covers institutional partnerships, ecosystem growth, and infrastructure milestones ahead of Bitcoin Staking's Q3 launch.

  • Register for Growing Bitcoin's next session, "Bitcoin's Productive Era," featuring Bitwise and Fireblocks. Tuesday, July 28 at 11 AM ET.

  • Zest Protocol launched Stacks Swap, a swap aggregator that compares liquidity pools across major DEXs on Stacks and routes each trade for the best available output.

Happy stacking, Stackers 🟠

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



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This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 31 Jul 2026

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Gm 👋

It's done. The PoX-5 hard fork activated this week, and the network is running under the new rules. Here's everything that shipped alongside it.

😋 Stacks Snacks

  • Stacks activated the PoX-5 hard fork at Bitcoin block 960,230 (on July 30), the consensus upgrade that lays the foundation for Bitcoin Staking. It's the first of the Satoshi Upgrades, with more to follow in August.

  • Now that the fork has unlocked stacked STX, here's how to restake your STX after the PoX-5 hard fork, with step-by-step instructions across four different apps. You must restake to keep earning BTC rewards.

  • Granite and Zest were both added to the Borrow on Bitcoin index. Among the protocols listed, Stacks has the cheapest borrowing rates.

👀 Other Tasty Content

  • STX staking is now live on Ryder One, powered by The Fast Pool. Ryder is one of the original products built on the Stacks ecosystem, so this one's a nice milestone.

  • Stacy Muur put together a clear explainer on Stacks' self-custodial Bitcoin Staking. A good read if you want the mechanics.

  • Zest Protocol launched Stacks Vaults: deposit one asset, pick a strategy, and the vault automates the yield. It's Zest's move from a lending market into yield infrastructure.

  • sBTC now has its own dedicated bug bounty on Immunefi, with rewards up to $250,000 for helping secure the 1:1 Bitcoin-backed asset behind BTC in DeFi and dApps.

  • ICYMI: the Growing Bitcoin webinar with Bitwise and Fireblocks is up. Catch the replay.

Happy staking, Stakers 😉

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Good steps in the right direction!!! well-informed read

This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 07 Aug 2026

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Gm 👋

😋 Stacks Snacks

  • A reminder for every staker: you need to restake your STX after the PoX-5 hard fork to keep earning BTC rewards. If you haven't yet, now's the time.

  • Community DeGrants Cohort 4 is here. The program drew more than 200 applications (largest response to date) and Community Stewards selected six projects to share in funding. Meet the cohort.

  • Stacks trended on X this week after activating the PoX-5 hardfork.

  • Castle Labs on The Birth of Bitcoin-Native Finance. Bitcoin keeps getting treated as a reserve asset, yet it still earns nothing, and they lay out how to change that.

👀 Other Tasty Content

Happy staking, Stakers 😉

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



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