🔨 Industry Lessons: Due Diligence for Developers
Researching protocols? Don't let hype and market cap distract you from what counts.

As a developer, you didn't select the language you first learned without consideration, and you shouldn't do that with protocols, either. Protocols are more than just a modular part of your application or business, they’re fundamental to the value you're going to provide users.

Below, we've compiled a list of critical aspects to consider when assessing which protocol is right for you (and which will still be around next year).
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🚨 ICYMI: Stacks is the number one Bitcoin layer
Despite some losses in 2022 due to the market downturn, Stacks has shown steady developer growth since its launch. In addition to healthy developer interest, Stacks has had nearly 24,000 smart contracts deployed, 1 million NFT events, 500,000 stacks addresses, 140,000 .btc names registered, 7 billion STX transferred, and dozens of companies launched in the ecosystem.

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🗣 What is Stacks?
Although it's likely that none of the people in this channel need education on Stacks, we're sharing this great Stacks explainer blog post by Xverse anyway in case you want to share this with your friends. Read full article 👇

✅ SIP (@Stacks Improvement Proposal) Call 🔎

💬 What: Open Discussion
📅 When: Friday 10th February - 11am ET

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Improve #Stacks Together ✊💜

Giveaway from Bitcoin Secured NFT Marketplace Gamma
Gamma is excited to invite you on this fun treasure hunt and quest for Bitcoin NFTs!

Together, with nearly 40 other apps, artists, and creators in the ecosystem, we are running this campaign to bring attention to Bitcoin NFTs and onboard users to this unforgettable journey. We’d like to thank every partner and artist who participated in this project, and hope you’ll enjoy it!

Link to the article 👈

Gamma - The Weekly Stacks Newsletter
The latest talk of the town in the Bitcoin community has been controversially around other assets on Bitcoin, such as NFTs. As the most notable and decentralized blockchain ecosystem, Bitcoin serves many use cases around permission-less payments. But what about things like ownership and IP rights around art and music? Perhaps, there is a way to satisfy all of the above and use Bitcoin as the foundational layer for the next generation of the internet — Web3.

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Stacks Quarterly Miner Report Review by Matty
Read Matty's Q4 mining report 👈
1. Cycle Lengths
2. Total Amount Stacked
3. Total Number of Stackers
4. >50% and >70% Stacking "Attacks"

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🚀 What's happening with sBTC? - Andre.btc
"That means once live, sBTC could become the dominant trading pair for rare Bitcoin Ordinals NFTs."

⭐️ sBTC Resident @andrerserrano shared exciting progress towards the launch of sBTC. Read the full article 👇

🔔 sBTC Town Hall & Stacks Builders Building For Ordinals - Exciting events ahead

📆 Wednesday 5PM (EST) - Join Kyle Ellicott, together with Stacks Co-creator Muneeb Ali, Stacks Foundation Executive Director Brittany Laughlin, Stacks Ventures' Trevor Owens, Freehold's Patrick Stanley and more during the upcoming Stacks Twitter Spaces. Set a reminder here 👈

📆 Thursday 10AM (EST) - Join Gina Abrams, Muneeb Ali, Brittany Laughlin, Andre Serrano, Alex Miller & more during the upcoming sBTC Town Hall. sBTC is the missing piece to unlock Bitcoin's full potential. Set a reminder here 👈

🎮 Leading on-chain Bitcoin Secured RPG Indigo shared their latest update
"Project Indigo is a role-playing experience, and the game needs to evolve to allow for more playing of roles. The new encounter system expands on quests to do just that. This will bring decision making and meaningful choices into the gameplay."

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Join the weekly Stacks Improvement Proposal Community Call
This is a friendly space to:
- review recent SIP activity
- share your SIP ideas with the community, and
- engage with the folks evaluating SIPs (e.g. Consideration Advisory Boards (CABs), Steering Committee, SIP Editors etc)

Link to the reoccurring calendar invite 👇

Bitcoin Layer Stacks counts for almost 30,000 smart contracts deployed.
⛲️ Let that sink in.

1) Roughly 30,000 smart contracts deployed
2) Roughly 500,000 non-zero addresses
3) Over 3,000,000 cumulative transactions

Check out the State of the Network dashboard for more information.

🚀 Stacks entities path to success
How NFT-backed lending protocol Liquidium successfully launched their Bitcoin secured protocol:

1️⃣ Learned about smart contracts
2️⃣ Joined the Web3startup lab
3️⃣ Requested a Grant
4️⃣ Became a Bitcoin DeFi powerhouse

Learn how to walk the same path 👇
1️⃣ Learn smart contracts
2️⃣ Join startup program
3️⃣ Apply for a Grant

🚨 Join the next Hackathon and win great prizes
Welcome to the Building on Bitcoin Hackathon!

A virtual hackathon where you'll build your very own smart contracts using Clarity. The hack will let you experiment and familiarize yourself with Clarity’s developer environment.

🙋‍♀️ Join Ciara & Aakanksha for office hours sessions on February 28th and March 2nd at 11:00am EST for one hour each.

How to join 👇

Stacks sBTC Resident @andrerserrano sharing last week in sBTC

⭐️ "sBTC will be imperative for scaling ordinals long term, so it’s worth covering this trend closely"
⭐️ Technical Roadmap scoping 30 projects
⭐️ Community Town Hall with 100+ attendees

Explore the update ⬇️

Stacks 2.1 - ICYMI
Stacks 2.1 binaries are now available

This is a monster release. Read the full changelog here

2.1 consensus rules will activate on mainnet at Bitcoin block 781,551.

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Stacks Gains Popularity 🚀
STX, the native token of Bitcoin layer 2 Stacks Network, is surging as the recent arrival of the Ordinals protocol has unleashed a new narrative of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain.

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Why you should be excited about sBTC for Bitcoin?
"People forget how many Bitcoiners are out there."
"Bitcoin over the last years has evolved into a holding asset."

Wrapped $BTC has a 5 billion dollar circulating supply on Ethereum. Bitcoiners would want to use solutions that are much closer to the Bitcoin ethos. sBTC can be that solution.

Watch the full video here 👇

🚨 Starting in 1 hour - Peg Wallet Design Office Hours
Join Christopher & Jude (Stacks Foundation), Max (Hiro Systems) and Igor (Trust Machines) on today's office hours to discuss the new proposed Peg Wallet Design.

The proposal for the new Peg Wallet Design can be found here 👈

Set a reminder 👇
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📺 What You Should Know About Bitcoin Ordinals?
Ordinals proves that Bitcoin is censorship resistant.

Bitcoin is the largest asset and most secure chain, and a lot of people agree that Bitcoin will be the chain that will survive the longest. Because of this, people will buy a premium price for Bitcoin block space.

Watch the full 5 minute video by Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali 👇