In this post, you’ll have a better understanding why infrastructure is important to Hiro Systems PBC, why they think it should be important to everyone hosting software, and some hard lessons they've learned — or had to watch others learn — in the past.

🕳 Common Pitfalls
⚙️ Don’t over-engineer a solution to a simple problem
🔧 Giving a service more resources isn’t always the answer
👷 Convention over configuration
☝️ Don't become another statistic of cyber attacks
💸 Throwing more money on the fire won’t always put it out

https://www.hiro.so/blog/hiro-backstage-infrastructure-series-pitfalls

🚨 Xverse is currently looking for talented people to join their team🚨

See the list below for open positions 👇

👨‍🎨 UI/UX designer
🧑‍💻 Full stack and mobile engineers
🤵 Social media and marketing manager

If you're interested in joining the Xverse team and want to help build out the gateway to the Stacks ecosystem, please reach out to ken@secretkeylabs or DM Ken - Xverse wallet#9921 on discord.

🔥 JUST IN: Bitgo,a leader in institutional digital asset financial services, providing clients with security, custody, and liquidity solution is integrating STX and Stacking.

According to its CEO Mike Belshe, they've integrated Stacks because financial institutions have been looking for a secure access point to the DeFi market.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitgo-integrates-stacks-bringing-bitcoin-defi-to-institutions

Apps built on $STX can interact with Bitcoin on-chain data and state 🤝

Today, non-technical users who can’t audit smart contract code have no choice but to trust in the developers that their code is free from bugs or malice. Enter Clarity ⬇️

https://youtu.be/nW7i8f0gP_o

🎃 Get your spookiest NFT ready as the Stacks Foundation brings you the first Stacks Halloween NFT Contest.

How to Enter
1. Use Boom.Money to mint an NFT
2. Send your NFT to stacksfoundation.btc
3. Tweet your submission @Stacks with the Hashtag #SpookyNFTonStacks

The Prizes
📦 200K Boomboxes
🏴‍☠️ The Explorer NFT from Sigle
🤖 Arties NFT by OpenArtSource

Submissions will close on the 31st of October, 2021 at 11:59 PM PST

→ https://stx.is/halloween-nft

Drop your favourite #NFTs secured by Bitcoin below.👇

🎃 Stacks Townhall is happening tomorrow! We have a jam-packed agenda so don't miss it.

• Q3 community achievements + what to look forward to in Q4
• Explosion of Bitcoin NFTs on Stacks
• Rise of Bitcoin DeFi (including a recap of Arkadiko’s recent launch)
• New data tools and products coming out of Daemon
• MiamiCoin and what’s next for CityCoins
• Stacks blockchain, including work on scalability + the upcoming 2.1 upgrade
• Newly formed BNS working group
• Upcoming Stacks Accelerator cohort
• Latest developer tools and focuses coming out of Hiro
• Community growth via Stacks Chapters
• Progress on community governance

Bonus: A special Halloween-themed NFT give away exclusively for town hall attendees, so make sure you tune in! 🙈

Save your spots now 👇
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/stacks-town-hall-q3-2021/register

ICYMI: A new version of Blocksurvey was launched in Product Hunt 🦆

Don't forget to upvote ☝️
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/blocksurvey-3-0

CityCoins X Stacks 🔥 Can you predict the next CityCoin? $STX #CityCoin

Moonray and Stacks make it possible to own in-game items as NFTs. Which game do you think should start handing out NFT items as well?

https://youtu.be/Re3J6tXmki0

ICYMI: Let's talk about how Stacks scale in layers around Bitcoin thru

⛓ App Chains
🕸 Subnets
⚡️ State Channels

https://youtu.be/q9lAZfCGZ38

URGENT: PLEASE VOTE "YES" FOR SIP-012

https://twitter.com/0xAsteria/status/1454853196413874182?s=20

SIP-012 fixes the congestion in Stacks by upping the block limits and correcting the costs. full context: https://twitter.com/0xAsteria/status/1454430290718363648?s=20

what are you waiting for? let's get this done!! 🔥

Several common misconceptions of Stacks are that it’s a sidechain, a merge-mined chain, a proof-of-stake chain, or a layer-2 system. None of these are true. The Stacks blockchain is a layer-1 blockchain, which uses a novel and unique mining protocol called proof-of-transfer (PoX).

Learn more from Jude Nelson as he breakdowns on what kind of blockchain is Stacks 👇

https://stacks.org/stacks-blockchain

🚨 Mark your Calendars 🚨

@OpenArtSource1 is releasing their Arties Cosmic Robot Collection this 11.10.2021. With Arties, you get the following benefits.

✅ Discount
✅ Access to exclusive events
✅ Whitelist benefits
✅ DeFi Collateral
✅ Members Only Discord
✅ 1-1 NFT Drop/ Physical Items

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vOAEnO9Dqw

Stacks Korea is excited to announce that Stacks has been rated ‘AA-’ by Xangle, a crypto asset disclosure platform in the region.

According to Xangle, STX is leading its competitors (RSK, Lightning Network, Liquid Network) in terms of TVL across Bitcoin projects ($1B+ or 60% dominance).

https://stacks.org/xangle-grades-stacks-as-top-tier

Did you know that labs still use ancient methods to track patients eggs, sperm, blood, etc? Eggschain is a project built on Stacks, that tracks biospecimens via Bitcoins blockchain! 🥚😶

https://eggschain.com/

Stacks Residence Program presentations are happening now! Hear from teams like Boom and the Governance Lab share their roadmaps for the upcoming year.

Watch now 👇
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/stacks-residence-program

What are topics in the crypto space that need to be explained to the mainstream audience? 🤔

"Bitcoin #NFTs are getting hot right now; while the community is tightknit and small, they are growing very, very fast." - @NFTNate_

https://youtu.be/FUhcf30KQSE