ICYMI: We're pleased to announce the Stacks Twitter giveaway following the Clarity Universe launch, a learning portal for the smart contract language.

Take part (until 28th July) for a chance to win a $150 card at the Stacks Merch store!

Participate: https://stacks.org/universe-swag#author

STX price rallied 195% after the introduction of smart contracts enabled the launch of DeFi and NFTs on the Bitcoin network. -Cointelegraph

https://cointelegraph.com/news/stacks-stx-price-rallies-195-after-revealing-plans-to-bring-defi-to-bitcoin

Did you manage to catch the latest Stacker Chat last week? Dr. Muneeb Ali (Co-founder, Stacks and CEO, Hiro) and Gina Abrams (Special Projects, Hiro) talks about the following:

0:41: Can you tell us more about Bitcoin transactions cross-chain on Stacks?
5:42: What are the properties that make Stacks uniquely possible for interacting with the Bitcoin base chain?
7:45: What is your reaction to the TBD Bitcoin DeFi Project that was recently announced by Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO?
11:31: One question that has been coming up in conversations lately is around commitments and contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem, where do you see Stacks fitting into that conversation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFmK-004Gz4

The BTC swap of $MNO, the first meme token based on Stacks, has been successfully completed!

An exchange between BTC and Stacks-based Fungible Token.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kickstarterbtc/status/1419635898329665541

The Ryder Team released their Q22021 Recap. Let's check on all the progress they've made and how their maker community helped unlock their next fundable milestone.

https://twitter.com/Ryder_ID/status/1419743665824706568

Tomorrow's builder session will be featuring back-to-back DeFi projects. The first one is Taral, which eliminates the friction, costs, and time normally associated with trade finance. Second is the crowd's favorite Arkadiko, whose progress we will check after they closed their Regtest. We will discuss the various learnings and improvements they made on the product. This is also the time to ask how we as a community can help in their upcoming Mainnet launch in October.

See you builders on what they call "DeFi Summer" but of course on Bitcoin.

Agenda:
7:00 - 7:05 - Community check-in
7:05 - 7:20 - Taral
7:20 - 7:35 - Arkadiko
7:35 - 8:00 - Open Discussion

☝️ For Q and A join this reddit thread.
✅ Add to your calendar here
✅ Join Arkadiko Community: Discord or Telegram

What’s up out there, Clarity Connoisseurs?? 🖥

NEW BLOG POST ALERT, straight from ya boy. In this new piece titled Five Useful Clarity Keywords and Functions, I give an overview of a few essential snippets of code for developing smart contracts on Stacks. It might be a bit basic if you’re already experienced with Clarity and have been tinkering with us for a while, but the article should be a nice, quick overview for beginners of some fundamental mechanisms of the language. All the usual suspects are here: tx-sender, define-map, impl-trait, and more.

Six months into Stacks 2.0 mainnet, and we’re truly seeing the smart contract dev community explode. Hopefully blog posts like this can convince some curious blockchain devs to dip their toe in the Clarity swimming pool! 🏊
https://www.hiro.so/blog/five-useful-clarity-keywords-functions?utm_source=telegram

Hello out there all you Cryptopunks, Bored Apes, Meebits, Beeples, Cryptokitties, and TopShots! 🖼

The wait is finally over, because it’s time for you to build your NFT on Stacks. Patrick Gray, Documentation Lead at Hiro, just dropped a bombshell blog post overviewing the latest addition to the Clarity onboarding experience. There is a brand new tutorial in the documentation, and it is totally focused on building a non-fungible token using Clarity. It deep dives on the SIP-009 trait that makes a contract NFT compliant, and even shares some example code that makes it stupid simple to spin up your own. 🖌

There are so many projects in the Stacks ecosystem innovating with NFTs. ThisIsNumberOne, Boomboxes, rcrdshp, and many more. We’re really thrilled about having an option for beginners to dive into the world of NFTs, and cannot wait to see custom non-fungible smart contracts popping up in the explorer.

https://hiro.so/blog/nfts-on-stacks-new-tutorial-and-documentation?utm_source=telegram

“First time founders focus on product. Second time founders focus on distribution.” Check this blogpost from Patrick Stanley, founder of Freehold as he talks about why great founders seek investors with reach.

https://www.joinfreehold.com/posts/great-founders-seek-investors-with-reach

💥 New Listing: Tokocrypto just listed STX.

https://twitter.com/Tokocrypto/status/1420655561557757955

Blockchain.com Lists Stacks (STX). The listing is now live and includes STX-USDT, STX-USDC and STX-USD pairs.

As mentioned in the Foundation Q2 Recap, We are still waiting on a major US listing, rapid growth in crypto has everyone's development teams extremely backed up. [Specific information related to exchanges redacted to be courteous of these organizations]

https://twitter.com/blockchain/status/1420791732455759879

At 5pm EST, we'll be chatting with Dan Held (Director of Growth Marketing, Kraken) on 'DeFi on Bitcoin' for our next Crypto Internet session.

Join us here: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1jMJgpLgPgAxL

GoSats, one of the accelerator team just released their chrome extension. Now you can earn Bitcoin cashback while shopping.

https://twitter.com/gosatsapp/status/1420345070511742979

Sypool, a STX Community Mining Pool is coming soon? 👀

https://sypool.co/

💥 Blockchain.com just announced their Stacks (STX) trading competition.

For every Exchange user that purchases $100 of STX or more will be entered for a chance to win pooled Stacking rewards for all STX purchased and held on the Blockchain.com Exchange by Friday August 6th and held through the end of August.

Check the link below for the competition mechanics.👇
https://medium.com/blockchain/announcing-asset-drops-an-stx-trading-competition-6051638959b1

ICYMI: Catch the latest Stacker Chats video featuring special guest Trevor Owens, Managing Partner at Stacks Accelerator, to shares updates from Cohort 1 Teams. Learn why these new projects chose to build on Stacks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBZoyR26OOU

The long wait is over, you can now start mining MiamiCoin ($MIA). Here's how you can participate:
https://www.citycoins.co/post/miamicoin-mining-launch-august-3

Stacks-travaganza this weekend! 🎊

Hiro's own VP of Technology Diwaker Gupta will be giving a presentation on smart contracts for Bitcoin at Chainlink's Smart Contract Summit.

Additionally, we'll be getting the special treat of a technical demo from Marvin Janssen. 🤖

Catch up on all things Stacks this Saturday, August 7th @ ~3:25pm EST. 🔔

You can register now for free on Hopin!
https://hopin.com/events/smart-contract-summit-1

Stacks Foundation just published their goals for Q32021! 🔥 From supporting additional US-based exchange with a Stacks integration all the way to growing Clarity adoption.

Check the various KRs here 👇
https://stacks.org/foundation-objectives-q3