This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 14 Aug 2026
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Gm 👋
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The Genesis Bond now has a block height. It runs during reward cycle 143, starting at Bitcoin block 966,350. The bond opens around Sept 10, and the first rewards are projected for Sept 17.
New Stacks DeFi TVL figures are out via Castle Labs, and lending makes up 90% of it: Zest $64M, Granite $7.5M, Hermetica $5.3M, and Bitflow $2.6M.
Restaking after the hard fork was a real community effort, and it showed: 392M STX has been restaked ahead of cycle 141, about 88% of cycle 140's 446M STX. If you missed this one, be sure to restake before the next cycle.
A 90-day incentive program kicks off on Stacks around Sept 10, paying 1 BTC per month for DeFi activity with Zest and Bitflow across USDCx borrowing and liquidity.
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Almost 7 years ago, STX became the first crypto to receive SEC qualification under a Regulation A+ offering. Hard to believe it's been that long.
Stacks Labs CEO, Alex Miller, will be on site at SALT's Wyoming Blockchain Symposium next week, connecting with institutional leaders and discussing how Stacks is growing Bitcoin through Bitcoin-native finance and Bitcoin Staking.
The two lowest USDC borrow rates against Bitcoin collateral in DeFi are both on Stacks: Granite at 1.73% and Zest at 2.17%, while every other major market sits above 3.9%.
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.
This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 21 Aug 2026
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Gm 👋
The Genesis Bond is now weeks away, and the institutional signals keep stacking up. Let's dig in.
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24 days out: the Genesis Bond brings the first self-custodial Bitcoin yield mechanism live. It opens with limited BTC capacity reserved for institutions, and staking pools like StackingDAO come online right alongside it.
Stacks' TTF report is now on Bloomberg Terminals, adding Stacks to Blockworks' industry standard disclosure framework.
Tune into Muneeb with Emon Motamedi from the Solana Foundation on a decade of building on Bitcoin and what the cycles teach you.
Bitflow crossed $6 billion in trading volume. Moving in and out of native Bitcoin happens on Stacks.
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Happy staking 🟠
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.
This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 28 Aug 2026
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Gm 👋
The institutional pieces are falling into place ahead of the Genesis Bond. Let's dig in.
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We're 15 days out. The Genesis Bond goes live soon, the first institutional Bitcoin Staking bond of the PoX-5 bootstrap phase, and capacity is intentionally limited.
Big one: Asia's No. 1 staking provider is joining. HashKey Cloud has HKD 29B staked across 40+ networks, and they're in the first Genesis Bond alongside UTXO Management. Muneeb broke the news on stage in Hong Kong.
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Happy staking 🟠
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.
This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 04 Sep 2026
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Gm 👋
It’s all coming together. Bitcoin Staking is here. Let's dig in.
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Happy staking 🟠
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.
This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 11 Sep 2026
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Gm 👋
We've been talking about productive Bitcoin for months. As of today, it's real. Let's dig in.
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It's official: Bitcoin Staking on Stacks is live. The Genesis Bond, the first institutional bonding period, opened with UTXO Management, 21Shares, HashKey Cloud, Sypher Capital, and infrastructure through Fireblocks. Institutional Bitcoin now earns native BTC yield while staying on Bitcoin L1.
Bonding Period 2 is opening now. Capacity is limited and allocated in order, so institutions can register today.
The Block covered the launch: BTC holders can now earn yield paid in Bitcoin while their coins stay on L1, with STX unlocking staking capacity.
Hear from Stacks leadership on what the launch means: the first institutions staking their BTC, how PoX-5 makes it possible, and what opens up at the next bonding period.
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Every yield has a payer. In Stacks' Proof of Transfer, it's the miner. Sypher Capital lays it out in The State of Bitcoin Yield 2026.
House of Chimera calls the first bond the first real datapoint for the model, and asks the next question: how it scales as more BTC competes for the same rewards.
Stack Sats campaign is here: 1 BTC a month, 3 BTC total, for putting Bitcoin to work on Bitflow and Zest. Pre-register now, incentives start Sept 16 🟧
Happy staking 🟠
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.
This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 18 Sep 2026
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Gm 👋
A week after launch, the Genesis Bond is doing exactly what it was built to do.
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The Genesis Bond marks Phase 1 of the Stacks Roadmap: bringing more BTC into the ecosystem. The next phases encourage Bitcoin to flow into apps and become liquidity for users across Bitcoin-native finance.
As Alex Miller puts it: Bitcoin Staking is how people find Stacks, and Bitcoin-native finance is why they stay.
Stack Sats is live: 3 BTC in rewards over the next 90 days for borrowing and providing liquidity with USDCx through Zest and Bitflow on Stacks.
Curious how people are running the Stack Sats loops? Here are a few breakdowns from DeFi Warhol, Stacy Muur and Nick Research.
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Xverse Explore just leveled up: trade trending BTCFi tokens, catch Ordinals drops early, and discover Bitcoin utility, all in one place.
Zest's Stacks Market just passed $13M in outstanding borrows, with sBTC, stablecoins, and STX all being borrowed.
Bitcoin-native finance isn't one app, it's a whole stack: vaults, lending, market making, AI infrastructure, and stablecoins, all settling on Bitcoin.
Happy staking 🟠
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.
This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 25 Sep 2026
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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.
This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 02 Oct 2026
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Gm 👋 A big week, starting all the way from the top. Let's dig in.
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HUGE one: Muneeb Ali is stepping in as CEO of Stacks Labs later this month. He’s been building on Bitcoin since 2013, started Stacks in 2017, and led the first SEC-qualified token offering in 2019. He’s back at the helm for the next growth phase of Stacks, now that Bitcoin Staking is live 🔥
Alex Miller, who built the foundation for Stacks Labs and shipped Bitcoin Staking in the interim CEO role, moves into an advisory role.
Anchorage Digital is enabling institutional Bitcoin staking with Stacks.
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Happy staking 🟠
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.
This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 09 Oct 2026
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Gm Stakers 👋
Stacks took the main stage at TOKEN2049. Let's dig in.
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On stage at TOKEN2049, Muneeb laid out the vision for Stacks through 2030 which boils down to making Stacks the default place for Bitcoin to earn, borrow, and transact privately, all settled to Bitcoin. The path to get there runs through the Satoshi Upgrades.
Bonding Period 2 is starting and the data starts coming through next week. The Genesis Bond participants have been earning BTC every week since September 17.
PoX-6 is the end state Bitcoin Staking was built to reach. It means any Bitcoin holder can bond directly and earn BTC yield, under their own custody.
Stacks is trending on X almost every day now 🔥
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Zest reaches a new ATH with over $40M in borrows on the Stacks market 👀
StackingDAO now stakes over $100M across STX and BTC, up from STX only two months ago.
Stacks is at CoinAlts on Oct 14th next week.
Tenero V2 is live, with Stacks front and center. In app swaps powered by Zest and Bitflow, a new DeFi yield hub, new pools, and an upgraded UI.
Alea Research cites Stacks as a credible way to earn yield on BTC without moving it off Bitcoin's base layer.
Happy staking 🟠
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.
