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

clairemg.btc · March 27, 2026, 3:06pm

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

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Bitcoin DeFi is having its stablecoin moment. $36.5M in stables on Stacks, around 45% on Zest, USDCx is just getting started.
Bitflow’s HODLMM launched with over $160,000,000 worth of tokens moving through their concentrated liquidity engine 🔥
DeFi Warhol breaks down the case for self-custodial Bitcoin staking on Stacks.
Buidl Battle is officially a wrap! Winners will be announced with a full breakdown coming soon.

📆 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

Stacks is everywhere this week. Alex at Hill & Valley Forum in DC, Muneeb and the BD team at DAS in NYC, Andre speaking at Penn Blockchain this weekend, and Adriano at WalletCon in Cannes next week alongside WalletConnect and Circle.
CFC St. Moritz gets it: Bitcoin as productive capital.
Here are two links to share: understanding Stacks basics what Stacks is and why the numbers speak for themselves.

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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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clairemg.btc · April 3, 2026, 3:01pm

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

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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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clairemg.btc · April 10, 2026, 3:41pm

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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Reubs put together a step by step guide for spinning up your first Bitcoin AI agent on Stacks. Check out his Dummy's Guide to Building Your First AI Agent on Bitcoin.
Hermetica’s USDh (bitcoin backed dollar) just hit 7% APY in March, which is roughly 18x the average US savings rate 🤯
The Stacks AI story is breaking into mainstream crypto media and was picked up for trending in CoinMarketCap AI.
Muneeb is calling it: it's Bitcoin's turn. With $1T+ in idle BTC and no native way to earn on it, he says the biggest opportunity in Bitcoin is sitting right in front of us.

📆 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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