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

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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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Gm Stackers 🟠

🍿 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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Gm Stackers 🟠

💸 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.

🍿 More Snacks

📆 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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😋 Stacks Snacks

  • 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!

😋 Stacks Snacks

  • 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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Gm Stackers 🟧

😋 Stacks Snacks

👀 Other Tasty Content

  • 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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