⛏Mining Update: Daemon Technologies just released a version of the STX Mining Monitor. Now, we can see all recent in depth activity in the STX Mining market. This give both STX Miners and non-miners a valuable, quick snapshot of recent on-chain activity. In addition to showing activity on the Stacks chain, it also shows data from the Bitcoin chain, such as hashrate.

https://daemontechnologies.co/mining-monitor

Hi Everybody and Happy Thursday! ✌️

We’ve got a showstopping new post on the Hiro Blog this week with Muneeb authoring his first piece, and it highlights exciting happenings in native Bitcoin swaps. He discusses why it’s so significant, but more importantly highlights the engineers that recently built an implementation. Longtime Stacks community members Friedger Müffke, Asteria, and Jude Nelson, in collaboration with other Stacks community devs, successfully deployed working Bitcoin swaps with NFTs and other crypto-assets. 🪙🔄 🖼

It’s been no secret that Bitcoin and Stacks are a match made in heaven. The novel proof of transfer consensus mechanism leverages Bitcoin’s security and dominance, and Clarity unlocks all the dynamic decentralized DeFi & dApp use cases that blockchainers want. However, these types of native BTC swaps are a step above above just extending Bitcoin’s security. The new nautical “Catamaran Swaps” utilize Clarity smart contracts’ unique visibility to main Bitcoin chain and demonstrate true Bitcoin DeFi.

Have a read, and deep dive on the Clarity code that does the heavy lifting. A mere 70 lines of code is enabling trust-less BTC swaps to stablecoins, derivatives, perpetuals, and other any other crypto assets you all dream up and build on Stacks. I sound like a broken record sometimes, but once again a round of applause to the dedicated community members that spend their time hungering for knowledge, hacking through the big problems, and making Stacks a home for developers that want to code the future.
https://www.hiro.so/blog/bitcoin-defi-is-here-a-deep-dive-into-trust-less-swaps?utm_source=telegram

The Chapters Program takes our global mission local. It gives Chapter Leads the tools and resources they need to build and empower their local community. It's time to check on each Chapter's goals and evaluate their progress on each.

https://stacks.org/stacks-chapters-collective-impact

GoSats, a Stacks accelerator team commemorates India's Independence Day with the launch of a new Bitcoin rewards card. Users will be able to earn yield paid in BTC on all the rewards they’ve accumulated through the app.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/gosats-launches-bitcoin-cashback-rewards-card-in-india

🔥 Don't miss these two local Stacks AMAs today and the coming weekend.

🇮🇳 India: August 20 - 1st Stacks Deep Dive Session
🇹🇷 Turkey: August 22 - Binance Turkey AMA

See you all there!

🇹🇷 STX is getting listed on BTCTurk, one of the biggest exchanges in Turkey and the first Turkish lira-based cryptocurrency trading platform in the country. Trading will go live this August 23 at 15:00PM CET

https://twitter.com/Stacks/status/1428725044050546689

JUST IN: HireVibes users can now earn $STX for referring talent and getting hired. Check the full announcement here: https://www.hirevibes.io/post/stx-rewards-added-to-hirevibes

Trust-less BTC swaps on Stacks, loans that repay themselves, and NFTs that earn rewards? Bitcoin DeFi just keeps getting better and better.

More on Bitcoin DeFi + updates from Stacks builders in the latest Stacks Foundation newsletter: https://newsletter.stacks.org/issues/3x-stacking-rewards-trustless-swaps-and-rounding-up-your-change-into-stx-btc-706357

🔥 Let's meet Philip De Smedt, CEO and co-founder of Arkadiko, how we want to make it easy to get access to liquidity and to borrow against your own assets on the Stacks blockchain.

Official Hiro Blog 👉
https://www.hiro.so/blog/philip-de-smedt-on-loans-that-repay-themselves
Spread the word 👉
https://twitter.com/Gina__Abrams/status/1430591396315021321

Arkadiko: Website | Twitter | Telegram | Github | Discord | Medium

Get ready! Wrapped Bitcoin is Coming to Stacks 🚀

https://twitter.com/WrappedFi/status/1430942401602990084

🌴$MIA went live on OKcoin. $MIA is the 1st-ever city-based token, an open-source public utility offering a new kind of civic engagement for the community.
CityCoins are tokens built on the $STX blockchain and allow people to support their cities.

https://twitter.com/okcoin/status/1430566119455313921?s=21

The Ryder team made it their mission to make crypto accessible and inclusive to everyone by creating a hardware wallet through a human-centered design. They focus on its usability w/ the primary goal of integrating it into our daily lives & connecting our on-chain identity w/ our real-life identity. Their team believe in using design to make a complex product more understandable. If you're curious about how their team and maker community approaches Ryder's Product Design, check out their first product blog post here: https://ryder.id/blog/the-human-centered-design-process-of-ryder/

🇰🇷 Stacks Korea just launched their Ambassadors Program.
If you would like to participate in the program, please send a DM to @gmchung.

https://t.me/BlockstackKoreaUpdate/525

A review from Hiro and the next steps about the mempool congestion. 👇

https://forum.stacks.org/t/mempool-congestion-on-stacks-observations-and-next-steps-from-hiro

UDC 2021 NOW LIVE!

Meet Muneeb through here!

Replay link (ENG): https://youtu.be/ZlOci6O-s40?t=6293

Boom's 3rd BoomBox is now available! 💥📦

https://twitter.com/boom_wallet/status/1433243874932240386

Did you know that any SIP-10 token is supported by Catamaran Swaps. Learn how you can Swap STX-FT in this tutorial by @fmdroid.

https://www.catamaranswaps.org/stx-ft/friedger.btc.friedger-token-v1::friedger

Coinbase Custody now supports deposits and withdrawals for Stacks $STX.

https://twitter.com/CoinbaseInsto/status/1433448832293957635

https://custody.coinbase.com/assets

Stacks makes #Bitcoin programmable, enabling apps and #smartcontracts that inherit all of Bitcoin’s powers.

By working together, we can make a better internet, secured by Bitcoin.

Join our new official pages and community. 👇

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1930316660468765/
https://www.facebook.com/stacks.btc

Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/stacks-stx

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/stacks

$STX is coming on WazirX, the biggest Indian exchange. 🚀

https://twitter.com/WazirXIndia/status/1435524601212190720