CityCoins Launch: Earn BTC while supporting your favorite city

Tomorrow, Freehold and the Stacks community unveils an exciting new project. Join Freehold CEO Patrick Stanley tomorrow at 1:30 pm PST as he announces an initiative that allows anyone to earn STX and BTC while supporting their favorite cities. Tune in to the crowdcast session or @stacks Twitter to view the live stream.

Daemon Technologies have published a report on STX Mining focused on how to think about and measure the security of PoX, highlighting 3 properties of PoX security.

They’d like to delve deeper into the topic in the future, so feedback is welcomed:

https://twitter.com/XanDitkoff/status/1399973682164813832

TODAY: Tune in to Blockchain.com 'June Market Outlook' podcast where Muneeb Ali, Founder of Stacks will be featured.

The podcast will explore asset price movements, news developments, and http://Blockchain.com updates.

Register here: https://blockchain.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cEv6iJHHRs6ZLDU7IY2Gsw

Keen to know more about Clarity? The smart contract language on Stacks increases trust in dApps, through on-chain discoverability, and helps onboard new Stacks devs.

This piece by Alex Graebe (Hiro) explores two key design choices of the Stacks blockchain: truly verifiable and usable smart contract sources.

Read more: https://www.hiro.so/blog/theres-nowhere-to-hide-with-clarity

We're excited to announce that Injective Labs will be integrating with Stacks to give users access to new #BTC derivatives.

DeFi enthusiasts can soon take part in creating decentralized expiry futures and perpetuals across distinct networks such as BUSD/STX, which would tap into both Binance Smart Chain and Stacks for instance.

https://stacks.org/stacks-injective-bitcoin-defi

After a long year of virtual events only, Stackers were ready to celebrate Stacks and all things Bitcoin at Bitcoin Miami! 🏝 Check out scenes from the Stacks booth, the
City Coins launch party, our celebration with Okcoin and more 🔥

https://blog.stacks.co/recap-stacks-bitcoin-miami-2021

Dive into feature updates and announcements from Hiro's User Experience (UX) Team.

Hiro’s User Experience Team provides a safe, reliable way to manage STX holdings by building the Stacks Wallets and makes every detail of blockchain activity easy to reference by maintaining the Stacks Explorer.

https://www.hiro.so/blog/hiro-ux-team-may-2021-recap

Read this blog by Gina Abrams to learn about well-known Bitcoin based projects, including RSK and Lightning Network.

The blog compares these projects with Stacks, considering factors like capital and traction, and explores how Stacks uses the Bitcoin network effectively. Check it out:

https://www.hiro.so/blog/building-on-bitcoin-project-comparison

Layer 1, Layer 2, A consensus between two L1 Blockchains? What kind of Blockchain is Stacks, really? 🤔 To bring Clarity to this confusion and several misconceptions, Stacks Foundation Research Scientist Jude Nelson published an overview on what the Stacks Blockchain is and how it is different from other approaches.

MUST READ: https://stacks.org/stacks-blockchain

Arkadiko, the first stablecoin (xUSD) on Stacks to allow lending and borrowing of cryptocurrencies without the need for a middle man is LIVE on reg test. Help battle-test the network before its mainnet launch this Q42021. Get involved now 💪

https://regtest.arkadiko.finance/

It is the moment we've all been waiting for! 💥

Risidio just announced their 1st NFT Giveaway by Fatboy Slim.
Here's the mechanics to get your hands on this limited edition NFT.

✅ Follow @Risidio1 on Twitter
✅ Retweet their post and tag 3 friends
✅ Go to https://thisisnumberone.com/nft-market to claim

https://twitter.com/Risidio1/status/1405254005534699520

히로의 여정 with Pavitthra Pandurangan

ENG: https://www.hiro.so/blog/hiros-journey-pavitthra

Check out this Benzinga article, where Mitchell Cuevas (Head of Growth, the Stacks Foundation) explores the benefits of building on top of Bitcoin and other aspects of Stacks, including PoX and the Paycoin integration.

“Stacks turns Bitcoin from being a passive asset into an active asset that is programmable and available to all”.

Read more: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/21/06/21600974/exclusive-building-on-top-of-bitcoin-may-not-be-as-popular-as-ethereum-other-blockchains-b

🔥 Microblocks Reduce Transaction Processing Times to Seconds!

The Stacks blockchain settles blocks on the Bitcoin blockchain, which averages one block every ten minutes. In order to provide users and applications with more timely feedback on the status and results of transactions, the blockchain supports microblocks.

This post will talk about how microblocks are supported in the blockchain, how they impact the confirmation of transactions, and previews support for microblocks in explorers, wallets, and applications.

Read More: https://www.hiro.so/blog/microblocks-reduce-transaction-processing-times

Here is another Benzinga exclusive about 25 teams building their projects on Stacks through the Stacks Accelerator. Their projects are uniquely suited for Stacks, from peer-to-peer encrypted communications to a patent for tracking embryos and organs via blockchain.

The accelerator program is a continuing effort with investments of $4 million to use towards 100 companies over the next three years, so there will be more amazing projects built on Stacks to come!

Read more: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/21/06/21657844/exclusive-in-bid-to-expand-bitcoin-ecosystem-stacks-funds-25-startups-building-user-owned-

We're pleased to announce our first cohort of 25 startups building on Bitcoin with the Stacks Accelerator!

From DeFi and hiring platforms to NFT marketplaces, all these projects are uniquely suited to the Stacks blockchain and will be beneficial for the community.

You can learn about the projects here: https://stacks.ac/teams

JUST IN: $USDC may soon become available on Stacks:
https://twitter.com/Stacks/status/1409996245096148998

Check out this overview on Stacks by 7b Crypto Trading app. The article goes over the building blocks of investing or trading, such as:

• What is Stacks?
• Why you should trade Stacks?
• Stacks Trading vs. Stacks Investing
• Where to trade Stacks?
• How to trade Stacks using the 7b broker app?

https://sevenb.io/blog/how-to-trade-stacks-stx/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=STX_article&utm_term=STX_post_2&utm_content=STX_twitter

Centre is pleased to announce that we are enabling our members to issue USDC on additional blockchain platforms. USDC was initially launched on Ethereum and was fully implemented on the Algorand, Stellar and Solana chains in late 2020.

We anticipate that in the coming months, USDC will become available on Avalanche, Celo, Flow, Hedera, Kava, Nervos, Polkadot, "Stacks", Tezos, and Tron.

https://www.centre.io/blog/announcing-usdc-on-ten-new-blockchain-platforms

Our Quarterly Townhall is back this Friday. Mark your calendars, Stackers. This session will go over the following:

✅ Q2 2021 Highlights
✅ Various news from Hiro, Freehold, Daemon, Secret Key Labs, Stacks Foundation, etc.
✅ Stacks Grant
✅ Accelerator Team Update

You can register via the link below:
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/stacks-town-hall-q2-2021/register

Sigle started 2 years ago as a side project when creators Leo, Artūrs, and Quentin decided to create it. Learn more about Sigle and its journey as one of the 25 startups joining the Stacks Accelerator in this recent blog post.

https://app.sigle.io/sigleapp.id.blockstack/v325npRULzygGb9kDT6Cg