Upcoming: sBTC Testnet 🚀

Get Ready Bitcoin Builders! 🏁

The holy grail for unlocking the broader Bitcoin economy will soon be available for Bitcoin L2 developers in Testnet. 💥

ℹ️ The sBTC working group plans to release a public sBTC testnet mid-October.

Learn more 📒

Always be in the know 🔖

We're less than a month away! 🇬🇧

Bitcoin Unleashed happening at the Home of The Big Ben 🏫

Save the date ⤵️
🗓️ October 19-20

ℹ️ Sessions include live demos, technical workshops, keynote speeches, parties, panels, and discussions on everything from DeFi to decentralized gaming, NFTs, Ordinals, Regulation, and more.

➕ A Bitcoin Unleashed Hackathon will follow the conference.

Register today! 🎟️

Have you ever heard of Crypto Lending? 💬

Decentralized finance has grown rapidly in the past few years, and while decentralized crypto exchanges control a chunk of the DeFi market, crypto lending protocols are slowly gaining market share. 📈

Trust Machines published an informative blog explaining this and how it relates to Bitcoin DeFi. 📝

Delve into crypto-backed lending for digital assets, with a specific focus on Bitcoin lending; read more 📖

1️⃣ more week until the deadline for the hackathon inspired by the Olympics 🔥

Join the 2nd ₿itcoin Olympics Hackathon, a gathering of innovators focused on building a sustainable ₿itcoin economy. 🚀

Register today! 🎫

DAOs and DeFi - How are they related? 🤔

Did you know that the two have key similarities, and some DeFi protocols have started incorporating DAO governance models? 💭

Explore how DAOs and DeFi could intersect through Trust Machines' recently published explainer on how DAO principles can improve governance in DeFi 💡

Read the full blog 🖋️

ICYMI: EasyA x Stacks 🤝

EasyA's #60DaysOfStacks challenges launch soon! 🔜

ℹ️ EasyA is the world's leading Web3 learning app. They have the best developers building on the world's leading blockchains ⛓️ They have over 500,000 devs that are funded by a16z, YC, and many more 🚀

They’ll launch the Stacks challenges right in the EasyA app; make sure to download it beforehand to prepare! 🚀

Download ⬇️

More about EasyA 🧑‍💻

Shaping the future with the next generation of Bitcoin Builders 🛠️

LearnWeb3 is hosting the Decentralized Intelligence Season 1 🚀

The event brings together the best students using next-gen technologies to build the future using blockchain and AI tech 🌐

Learn more about the hackathon 📚

Bitcoin ⤵️
🔸 The biggest brand
🔸 and pristine Collateral

Arkadiko Finance's Philip DeSmedt shares his thoughts on why builders build on Bitcoin 🧡

"If you analyze all the different crypto assets, Bitcoin is still the most pristine form of collateral that is the most decentralized..." Philip said 💭

More about sBTC 📙

Learn more about Arkadiko Finance 💱

Did you know that fiat-backed stablecoins are emerging in more global financial systems? 🤔

Trust Machines published an article earlier this month explaining the 2️⃣ Types of Crypto Stablecoins. 📓

Learn 👇
✅ How Fiat-Backed Stablecoins Work
✅ What are Algorithmic Stablecoins?
✅ Comparing Fiat-Backed and Algorithmic Stablecoins
✅ Pros and cons of fiat-backed and algorithmic stablecoins
✅ Examples of Popular Fiat-Backed and Algorithmic Stablecoins

Read the full article 📖

Ordinals have revived the ‘builder culture’ on Bitcoin. 🟧

But Bitcoin NFTs' use cases and experiences have been limited by Mainnet programmability and network congestion constraints.

Listen to Megapont Founder, Mark Mckenzie explain how Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions can help scale Ordinals and enable richer experiences powered by smart contracts.

Mark Mckenzie is speaking at the next Bitcoin Unleashed event in London. Register now for the event 🎫

How do we add more utility to the Bitcoin ecosystem? 🤔

The facts are clear:
✅ Bitcoin is the largest market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies
✅ 4.2% of the global population owns Bitcoin
✅ 46M Americans own Bitcoin

Yet $0.5T in BTC capital is waiting to be deployed

Bitcoin L2s such as Stacks enable the creation of applications generating demand and growth for Bitcoin as an asset.

Learn how sBTC is making Bitcoin a programmable and productive asset, activating the most liquid crypto economy.

Bitcoin Layer 2s and sBTC are establishing the foundations for BTC programmability and unlocking the world’s largest, most liquid crypto economy.

From Bitcoin-backed DeFi to scaling Ordinals, the application possibilities are endless. 🏗

Bitcoin holders will finally be able to use their Bitcoin productively and bring more capital to smart contracts and dApps.

🧪 Capitalize on this new era of Bitcoin experimentation by joining the Testnet Program for sBTC.

This week DLC.Link announced they successfully closed a $2M pre-seed funding round 🌟

While Bitcoin development and experimentation are still in their early stage, Bitcoin will eventually become the settlement layer of the world economy.

Interest in the Bitcoin ecosystem is picking up as new use cases and apps keep emerging, making the perfect moment to start building on top of Bitcoin 🏗

Last week Sora Ventures published a comprehensive Bitcoin utility map 🗺

More and more companies are working on unlocking BTC potential as internet money🔓

Thriving Bitcoin products and infrastructure are key to enhancing the UX and create innovative use cases that will ultimately activate the Bitcoin economy

Opportunities for Bitcoin-backed DeFi builders keep growing

ALEX, which is focusing on building a finance layer on Bitcoin, just launched a grant program offering funding and development expertise

If you are a developer looking to enhance your capabilities in the Bitcoin and ALEX ecosystem, this is an amazing opportunity.

Learn more about Alex ecosystem fund

What has been holding down Bitcoin is the lack of a flywheel economy on top of it

Bitcoin L2s are how we get users to interact with BTC in productive ways and experiment with new use cases 🧪

🤔What kind of applications and developments on Bitcoin L2 excites you the most? Let us know!

While most web3 users hold Bitcoin, its practical usage is often limited

Stacks makes it effortless for Web3 builders to bolster the Bitcoin ecosystem with functionalities and value 🚀

If interested in learning to create Bitcoin-backed DeFi, NFTs, and more, make sure to check the Clarity language website.

Stacks is all about extending Bitcoin capabilities

But to foster Bitcoin innovation, more builders who can utilize the available scaling tools to create groundbreaking app are needed 🌱

If you are looking for co-founders, mentorship, set up a proof-of-concept, and the learn the skills to build a business, the Bitcoin Startup Lab program is what you need

Apply to the 90-day Bitcoin startup program before Nov 3 ⌛️

sBTC, the trust-minimized tokenized version of BTC, will unlock Bitcoin as a fully programmable asset🧑‍💻

Now, what's your vision for sBTC on Stacks?

📅Join the SIP call this Friday at 12 PM EST to explore sBTC's potential and share your ideas

The Bitcoin Frontier Fund is actively investing in startups across the Bitcoin ecosystem

Xverse, Alex, and DLC.Link are just a few of the success stories coming out of this program 🔥

Apply now to the accelerator program to scale your company and raise funds👇

The Runes protocol is the latest alternative to the BRC-20 standard, making the issuance of fungible tokens on Bitcoin more simple and polished

It's a clear sign that Bitcoin developers want to seamlessly experiment with fungible tokens on Mainnet

Bitcoin builder culture is definitely back!

If interested in a beginner guide to Runes, check out the last Xverse article.