Building is hard 💻

With the Hiro Platform, it’s about to get easier.

Join the waitlist → https://www.hiro.so/321

We have plenty of opportunities available within the ecosystem! 🚀

Find full-time positions, bounties, grants, and other opportunities to earn while contributing to the Stacks Ecosystem. 🤝

Check the link below ⬇️
https://stx.is/Apply-Jobs-Telegram

An introduction to the Uniqueness of the .btc Bitcoin Name System
As of Feb 2023 there have been 223,000 BNS names registered with about 19,000 new registrations each week. BNS is not only the longest running blockchain name project but also the largest non-financial use of Bitcoin in the blockchain’s history.

Watch the full video 👇

The sBTC - trustless use of native Bitcoin in Applications - Roadmap 🚀
The sBTC Working Group’s mission is to expand the Bitcoin economy. Providing a solution wherein Bitcoiners can participate in native DeFi (and other) apps in a decentralized way is a major step toward activating that economy.

sBTC enables these applications via smart contracts that effectively write to Bitcoin, unlocking $450B+ of capital for productive use.

sBTC is powered by Stacks, with years of distributed systems R&D to expand Bitcoin utility.

View the full roadmap 👇

Interested in learning more about Clarity? 🤔

Go to Clarity Universe -- the hub for all things related to learning Clarity, the most expressive and secure language for writing smart contracts secured by Bitcoin. Find courses, key resources, and job opportunities. 🚀

Register below 👇
https://stx.is/Register-ClarityCamp-LinkedIN

ICYDK: What are Bitcoin Ordinals?

Here's a great resource from Cointelegraph breaking down the basics!

Learn how Ordinals work, the critical differences between Ordinals and traditional NFTs, and how you can mint, buy, trade, and sell it.

Read the full article below:
https://buff.ly/3J6zwIy

🚨 Breaking: Stacks / Bitcoin decentralized exchange Alex has raised $2.5 million in a strategic round from investors including Trust Machines and Gossamer Capital.

“There are more eyes watching Bitcoin right now than any other blockchain because of what is happening with Bitcoin NFTs and the excitement around Bitcoin’s use case potential,” Muneeb Ali, Co-Creator Stacks

Read more 👇

The sBTC Roadmap is here 🗺️

Divided into three phases ⤵️
🌟 Q1 to Q2 2023 - Laying of foundation
🌟 Q3 to Q4 2023 - A first-class user experience
🌟 2024 onwards - Scalability

Read the full blog post below👇
https://www.bitcoinwrites.com/p/growing-bitcoin-economy-road-sbtc"

Stay up to date on all things sBTC related! ✅

Subscribe to the newsletter below👇
https://www.bitcoinwrites.com/

Learn more about sBTC 👇
https://www.stacks.co/learn/sbtc

Join the growing community of Stacks, where everyone's goal is to create a better internet on Bitcoin for everyone!

Together, let's unleash Bitcoin's full potential 🚀

Explore Jobs, Companies, and Talent across the ecosystem 👇
https://stx.is/Apply-Jobs-LinkedIn

We're excited to share a new STX listing 🚨

MEXC listed STX in the Innovation Zone and open trading for the $STX/USDT trading pair ✅

More details below 👇
bit.ly/3ZLNKpD

Did you know that we have over 50,000 smart contracts deployed? 💥

An incredible milestone indeed! We couldn't have done it without the amazing community that's rallying behind our common goal of unleashing Bitcoin's full potential! Special shoutout to all the builders who have made this possible! 💟

We're ecstatic to share that STX is now listed on Tapbit and they have opened the #STX/USDT trading pair! 🚀

ℹ️ Founded in 2021, Tapbit provides secure and stable trading services for mainstream crypto assets such as BTC, ETH, SOL, DOT, and USDC for our global investors.

Trade today 🤝
https://www.tapbit.com/spot/exchange/STX_USDT

ICYMI: Stacks 2.1 is HERE 🚀

We're excited to share that we have activated Stacks 2.1 recently 🔓

⭐️ Stacking Improvements
⭐️ New Clarity Functions
⭐️ Better Bridges
⭐️ Decentralized Mining
⭐️ #Bitcoin-native Assets

We would like to extend our sincerest gratitued to everyone who have contributed to the upgrade! 💟

This is only the beginning! Let's continue in strengthening the connection to #Bitcoin and unleashing it's full potential! 🌟

Just goes to show why Stacks is one of the top Web3 project on #Bitcoin today! 🚀

And we're more excited for the next months with sBTC, The Nakamoto release & more 💜

Emblem Vault Announces Support for Stacks NFT Token Standard (SIP-009)
In support of the Nakamoto_1 Bitcoin treasure hunt on the moon, Emblem Vault recently announced support for SIP-009, the NFT token standard for Stacks. Now, any NFT on Stacks can be traded on cross-chain marketplaces like OpenSea.

Bitcoin-Secured Stacks NFTs on the moon
Yesterday, LunarCrush announced Nakamoto_1, an interplanetary treasure hunt. Hiro is partnering with LunarCrush, Lunar Outpost, and Golden Wolf to launch a treasure chest filled with crypto and NFTs into space and put it on the moon. Read more 👈

Eager to share Stacks with your friends and colleagues? 💭

But need to figure out how? Look no further as Altcoinbuzz published a 2-part guide for anyone new in Stacks! 📒

It's a fantastic resource if you want to refresh your memory and a great introductory tool for anyone's first time in the ecosystem!

Share them within your network! 💟

Part 1 👇
https://www.altcoinbuzz.io/reviews/stacks-beginners-guide-part-1/

Part 2
https://www.altcoinbuzz.io/reviews/altcoin-projects/stacks-beginners-guide-part-2/

CoinMarketCap Alexandria featured Stacks in one of its Tech Deep Dives 📲

They went through ⤵️
🌟 What Is Stacks?
🌟 The Stacks Team, Investors and Roadmap
🌟 How Does Stacks Work?
🌟 The Stacks Token
🌟 Stacks and Bitcoin Ordinals

Read the full article below 👇
https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-stacks-features-and-tokenomics

🚨 Grants Program Funding the Future of Building on Bitcoin - Moving to Critical Bounties
sBTC and The Nakamoto release will unlock the full potential of Bitcoin with Stacks.

The Stacks Foundation's Grants Program introduced Critical Bounties to allocate resources to the efforts needed to make this happen.

Critical bounties are request for proposals (RFPs) that specify a critical need for the network. Make sure to check out the Critical Bounties and see if you're eligible for one of them. Here 👈

Read more about the Critical Bounties 👈

2022 for the Grants Program (Q4 2021 to Q4 2022)
⭐️ $12.5 million in applications received across 285 applications
⭐️ $4 million in grants awarded across 125 grants ($32k per)
⭐️ MultiSafe, Stacks Degens, Trajan, Droplinked, Alexandria Indexer, Clariform, Liquidium, EcosystemDAO, BitFlow, Web3 Startup Lab, Stacks Labs

🧑‍💻 Learn to code Bitcoin secured smart contracts on Stacks for free

📣 How Bitcoin Ordinals Can Affect the Next Bitcoin Halving

The next Bitcoin “halvening” will be unique because it will be the first to occur alongside the existence of Bitcoin Ordinals 🚀

ℹ️ The halvening occurs when the amount of Bitcoins entering circulation every ten minutes is cut in half, as well as block rewards for miners.

ℹ️ Bitcoin Ordinal theory refers to a protocol that allows each individual satoshi – the smallest unit of bitcoin – to be identified and tracked according to the order in which it was mined.

By their inherent nature and thanks to their increasing popularity helping to drive transaction fees higher, Bitcoin Ordinal inscriptions are a godsend for Bitcoin miners who may be apprehensive of the next “halvening.”

Read the full article here 👈

Here's a quick guide on Bitcoin Ordinals 👈

🚨 Check out the recent newsletter of alexGo.btc 🚨

⭐Ordinal Giveaway
⭐Incentived Testnet
⭐sUSD

The newly announced ALEX Bridge Incentivized Testnet boosted their socials by almost 35% ☝️

They also secured a $2.5M in a strategic investment round 🚀

ALEX is definitely excited for the future, especially when trillions in tokenized real-world assets look to transact trustlessly; they will come to the security of Bitcoin DeFi! 🔐

Check the full newsletter 👈

Have you read the recent sBTC Newsletter⁉️

The sBTC working group has been thinking a lot about use cases and user experience 💻

With their goal in mind of providing a world-class user experience for Bitcoin DeFi, they have a few plans to achieve that 👇

🌟Deep wallet integrations
🌟Easy on-ramps
🌟Simplified user interface
🌟Intuitive design

They also gave an engineering and go-to-market updates along with a general advise around the ecosystem 🌐

Read the full newsletter HERE ⬅️

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