⛓Introducing: Mechanism ⛓

Mechanism, a new initiative that aims to design and build protocols on Bitcoin, launched today and has raised $8M in capital. 🚀

Read more about Mechanism in this Twitter thread from the Mechanism CEO 👈

Join today's Twitter spaces (5PM ET) to get to know more about this new exciting project 👇

⏰ Set a reminder for the live show ⏰

📉 How to Survive a Bear Market 📈


🗣 "Some of the best projects in crypto are created during bear markets"

Being 10 years in Crypto, Muneeb explains how you can prepare yourself for bear markets. 👇

📺 Watch the Full Video 📺

⛓ Introducing Hyperchains by Hiro ⛓

For developers who want to build for Bitcoin, hyperchains will offer the ability to process high throughput, low latency workloads, so you can build fast and reliable experiences for your users. Read this article on how hyperchains can do so (Source: Hiro)

🗞 STXNFT Newsletter 🗞


STXNFT providing you the latest NFT news via The Weekly Stack 🚀

⭐️ NFT Nigh at the Museum
⭐️ Bitcoin Boards
⭐️ New Releases


Go to the latest release 👈

🚨 Stacker Chats 🚨

Muneeb Ali sits down with Gina Abrahams to do a deep dive on Bitcoin during a global crisis and how Bitcoin can continue to lead in crypto 🚀

What should they discuss next? 🤔

📺 Video highlight
🔈 Podcast

👁 Spy the rarest NFT deals 👁

NFTSPY makes it possible for you to check out the rarest NFT deals on Stacks. It takes the floor price and rarity rank into account to provide the best deals on the market 🎯

https://nftspy.tools/ 👈

🚨 HerNFT: Celebrating International Women's Day 🚨

Join Layer and Stacks on March 8th, as we celebrate Women artists and leaders in Web3 with the launch event for Her: NFT, an exciting new collection of over 35 NFTs designed for International Womens Day.

🤳 Twitter link

💌 Stacks X Layer: HerNFT Event 💌

Happy International Women’s Day!

⏰ Vspace event starts in 5 minutes ⏰

Register here: http://vspace.live/hernft

Check out the announcement Tweet

🚨 Bitcoin DeFi 101 🚨

Set a reminder for tomorrow's spaces where we will discuss how you can leverage DeFi, with:

⭐️ Jun Gong from Gelato
⭐️ Hadan from Alex
⭐️ Will from Tokensoft
⭐️ Many more!

⏰ 9AM EST ⏰
twitter.com/i/spaces/1BdGYwgerAZxX

ICYMI: ALEX on Your Phone via Xverse 🤳

Decentralized Finance easily accessible on your phone, a huge step for DeFi on Bitcoin 🚀

Watch the announcement video 👈

🗣 Discussing PoX-lite 🗣

Join Jeff (Mechanism), Hank (Mechanism), Mrk (Megapont), Jamil (STXNFT), Trevor (Stacks Accelerator) and host Kyle tomorrow 10 AM (EST) for a Twitter space where they will discuss the design, economics, and technical details 💡 🔈

🧵 Check out Jeff's thread on PoX-lite🧵
https://twitter.com/jefftoshi/status/1500851218381475843

MUST WATCH: Stacks founder Muneeb Ali talks about how Bitcoin can continue to lead in crypto and what Bitcoin Maximalists need to understand 👀

📺 Watch the full clip
🔈 Listen to the full audio version

GM Stack community🙏

🗣 9 AM (EST): Teaching Bitcoin DeFi 101
🗣 10 AM (EST): Mine NFTs with PoX-lite

⏰ Set a reminder for the first Spaces ⏰
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1BdGYwgerAZxX…

⏰ 10 AM session starts right after ⏰

🚨 Just Announced: The Bitcoin Odyssey 🚨

Okcoin, Stacks Launch $165M Pledge to Support Bitcoin-Related Projects ✊

The Bitcoin Odyssey is a year-long pledge taken by VC firms to deploy money into solutions that accelerate the adoption of bitcoin. 📈

Read the full article from Cointelegraph 👈

📲 Mobile NFTs on Bitcoin Experience 📲

Have you already tried buying NFTs on mobile with the Xverse app? Thoughts? 🤔

This new update is huge for the Stacks DeFi & NFT ecosystem 🚀

Link to full Xverse announcement 👈

🌐 Decentralized Finance on Bitcoin 🌐

⭐️ Mechanism
"We design and build protocols on Bitcoin using Stacks. Our mission is to grow the GDP of Bitcoin. We believe in a future where Bitcoin is the money layer and Stacks is the programming layer." - Mechanism

⭐️ Zest Protocol
"Undercollateralized Bitcoin loans for institutional borrowers" - Zest

Probably nothing... Just building on Bitcoin 👀

ICYMI: Bitcoin Innovation Summit 🚀

The greatest builders on Bitcoin came together to talk about Bitcoin innovation on Stacks 📈

If you missed any of the talks, you can check them out by going to this secret unlisted playlist 👀

Grateful for all the people that joined the summit 🙏

🧑‍💻 Hiro Release Roundup - February 2022 🧑‍💻

Read about the Hiro improvements on:

⭐️ Stacks API
⭐️ Clarinet
⭐️ Hiro Wallet
⭐️ Stacks Explorer

Full blog here 👈

🚨 Stacks X Creditcoin 🚨

Creditcoin adds Stacks support to collaborate on the OpenFi Ecosystem. Creditcoin is integrating with Stacks to bring Bitcoin-powered smart contracts to the Open Finance ecosystem. 🚀

⭐️ Creditcoin is a foundational L1 blockchain designed to match and record credit transactions, creating a public ledger of credit history and loan performance and paving the way for a new generation of interoperable cross-chain credit markets.

⭐️ By integrating Stacks with Creditcoin, a whole new pool of users in Africa will be able to leverage Bitcoin DeFi, giving them direct exposure to Stacking.

Read the full article on the Stacks X Creditcoin collaboration. 👈

🚨 Renew your BNS .id names 🚨

.id names that were registered prior to Stacks 2.0 will expire on Block #52595 - on or around Wednesday, March 16, 2022 - unless they are renewed! We’ve created a tool to let you renew Stacks 1.0 .id names that you can use on the web or, if you are a developer, run locally on your computer.

Read more here 👈

🚀 UNLEASH BITCOIN, TOGETHER 🚀

Join Stacks for Bitcoin Unleashed, a two-day event (yes, IRL) offering a wide range of Bitcoin-focused programming. Sessions include live demos, technical workshops, keynote speeches, parties, panels, and discussions on everything from DeFi to decentralized gaming, NFTs, and more.

Register here 👈