🚨 Arkadiko — Q4 2021 Report 🚨

This is a quarterly update on Arkadiko for the wider community, written by the core contributors.
These reports are not financial advice and should serve for informational purposes only.
The numbers below cover the period of Arkadiko's launch (21-OCT-2021) until the 1st of January 2022, unless stated otherwise.

For those who missed the announcement last week: a new protocol called Lydian is being developed, which will be a big use case for USDA.

Lydian will issue a token LDN that can be bought with USDA. It will be a DAO for people who want to get exposure to DeFi & yield farming opportunities without being a DeFi expert and putting in all the active management work that is required to earn the best and most sustainable yields.

You can read more about it in a Twitter thread I wrote https://twitter.com/philipdesmedt/status/1486372447289069568 or visit their website https://www.lydian.xyz/

Bitcoin Veteran Raises $150 Million To Bring DAOs And NFTs To First Major Blockchain

Dr. Ali has just raised $150 million to build New York-based Trust Machines, a company he co-founded with Princeton computer science professor Dr. JP Singh, which seeks to unleash what they consider “the true potential of bitcoin” by developing decentralized finance applications, DAOs and NFTs on the rebranded Blockstack, now called Stacks, a smart contracts network linked to bitcoin.

Investors in the round include Breyer Capital, Union Square Ventures, Digital Currency Group, GoldenTree, Hivemind, and others participating. The valuation was not disclosed. At stake is the potential for bitcoin to thrive in Web3.

“We believe that bitcoin can be more than a store of value; it can also be the settlement layer and platform for Web 3,” said Jim Breyer, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital and early Facebook investor. “We're excited to support Trust Machines and their mission to help bitcoin reach its potential.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2022/02/03/bitcoin-veteran-raises-150-million-to-bring-daos-and-nfts-to-the-first-cryptocurrency

🚀 NEW LISTING: Starting today, CoinList users can trade Stacks on CoinList, CoinList Pro, and the CoinList mobile. 🚀

https://blog.coinlist.co/stacks-stx-now-trading-on-coinlist/

🔈 Okcoin live episode with Stacks 🔈

Tune in today for Okcoin's live episode where they sit down with Mitchell Cuevas, head of Growth at the Stacks Foundation.

⭐️ NFTs
⭐️ Stacks
⭐️ Giveaways

https://twitter.com/Okcoin/status/1489056041606295555

🚨 How to Earn Bitcoin with Stacks 🚨

Stacking tutorial with Xverse & Binance 🙏

Also possible with Okcoin, Friedger Pool and Planbetterr
Tell me how we haven't made it easy for you to start stacking 👀

👇 Watch the video 👇
https://youtu.be/9Z3IICfCnjo

👋 Grants Ambassador Program 👋

Ambassadors Will Drive the Next Evolution of the Stacks Foundation Grant Program.

We're beginning our explorations focused on how the Grants program might become a DAO, as that structure would seem to lend itself well to the aforementioned themes.

Read more about the Grants Program 👈

⬇️ Preparing for a Bear ⬇️

Smart Crypto Moves in a Down Market.

If you're crypto-committed, a bear market can wreck havoc on your portfolio and your mental well-being. But there are smart ways to put your crypto to work while everyone is hibernating (and building). From stacking to staking to getting more involved in governance, Stacks will share tips on how to be in the best position to benefit from the next bull run.

Register for free now 👈

🚨 Hiro's first Executive Chairman 🚨

As of February 3rd, Muneeb Ali will be transitioning to Hiro’s first Executive Chairman. Alex Miller is taking his place as Hiro’s CEO, and Diwaker Gupta has moved to the first CTO role in the company.

View the thread on Twitter

🌟 OKcoin NFTGiveaway! 🌟

Stacks has found the key to unlocking a 🌎 of #DeFi on #Bitcoin, so OKCoin teamed up with Stacks to airdrop you free #NFTs & a chance to win up to $10,000 in #crypto 🚀

Check out the giveaway 👈

😐 Holding $STX in your wallet without using it
😎 Stacking $STX to earn up to 10% APY in $BTC

Learn how to stack $STX 👇
https://www.stacks.co/learn/stacking

🔥 MUTANT MONKEYS SERUM MINT 🔥

Starting 19th February 2:00PM UTC / 9:00AM EST

Mutant Monkeys is a collection of 5,000 NFT’s that can only be created by transforming a vial of SERUM into a Mutant Monkey. In the process, the Serum NFT will be burnt and you will receive a Mutant Monkey NFT for free.

Twitter Announcement

👉 https://bitcoinmonkeys.io/mutant-monkeys/

ICYMI: Muneeb Ali's Trust Machines Raises $150M

Participating investors include Breyer Capital, Digital Currency Group, GoldenTree, Hivemind and Union Square Ventures.

Read the Coindesk article 👈

It is official, Arkadiko is partnering with Lydian. Read the full article here:

https://arkadikofinance.medium.com/arkadiko-lydian-partnership-b3613549565c

Discussion on this topic can be found in https://discord.gg/ZHd5F58K

Muneeb on CoinDesk explaining why we haven't seen DeFi and web3 apps on Bitcoin earlier. View video 👈

🎨 STXNFT Weekly Stack 🎨

⭐️ Trust Machines
⭐️ The Mintery
⭐️ Satoshibles

Read the full newsletter 👈

🧑‍🏫 Tips & Tricks to Prepare For a Down Market 👩‍🏫

Stacks' Own Monthly Webinar: 11 Feb

If you're crypto-committed, a bear market can wreck havoc on your portfolio and your mental well-being. But there are smart ways to put your crypto to work while everyone is hibernating (and building). From stacking to staking to getting more involved in governance, Stacks will share tips on how to be in the best position to benefit from the next bull run.

Register for free 👈

📲 Xverse Wallet 📲

Do you use the Xverse wallet? 🤳

Make sure to vote on the next possible feature that the Xverse team should focus on 👇

https://twitter.com/xverseapp/status/1491388419351916544

Allbridge to become the first token bridge for the Stacks token 🌉

Soon after the launch of the Stacks Bridge, more token and NFT transfers will be supported so users can benefit from the security of Bitcoin and the speed of other chains.

Read the Cointelegraph article 👈

🌟 Announcing Magic Bridge, a Magic Bitcoin Bridge.

✨ A protocol for atomic swaps between $BTC and $XBTC on the Stacks blockchain.

💫 Now you can import Bitcoin directly into your favorite protocols on Stacks.

🪄 Completely open source, on-chain, decentralized, and trustless.

https://twitter.com/magicstx/status/1491434640384888832

⛓ Tokensoft xBTC ⛓

Wrapped.com, a collaboration between industry stalwarts Tokensoft and Anchorage, and specialists in wrapped crypto assets, will soon offer wrapped bitcoin on Stacks, or 'xBTC'. (Read more)

⏳ Join tomorrow's Twitter Spaces with Tokensoft ⏳