CNBC Crypto World discussing DeFi on Bitcoin 🚀

CNBC’s Tanaya Macheel spoke with Brittany Laughlin, executive director at Stacks Open Internet Foundation, about building a DeFi network on top of bitcoin.

Watch the full video here 👈

🔊 CoinMarketCap X Stacks 🔊

CoinMarketCap's own Connor Sephton joined Stacks during Bitcoin Unleashed to do a podcast about Stacks 🚀

⭐️ Stacks Foundation executive director Brittany Laughlin joined CoinMarketCap to explain why building on Bitcoin is a good idea.

⭐️ CityCoins contributor Patrick Stanley and Stack Ventures managing partner Trevor Owens explain how Miami and New York City are benefitting from their very own cryptocurrencies.

🗣 Spotify Link
🗣 Apple Podcast Link

Stacks Community Call: Grants Dashboard 🚀
Stacks aims to fund infrastructure development, community resources, tools, and education that serve our mission of a user owned web, powered by Stacks' blockchain ✊

You are able to join us during the official Stacks Dashboard reveal 👏

On Friday, April 15th, the Grants Dashboard will be demo'd at 9am EST at the end of the Community Call.

Set a reminder by going to the Discord event down below by clicking "✅"

🖼 Emerging Stacks NFT Newsletters 🖼

New Stacks NFT Madstar released their newsletter including:

🐳 Madstar's HBack Whale Club Mint
🐳 Save the Whales Plan
🐳 Connecting Universes and Future Club


Satoshibles released their first newsletter as well!

🪙 A Quick Recap
🪙 NFTs For Social Good
🪙 Introducing Phase 2

Incredible development in the Stacks NFT space 🙏

👁 Bitcoin Unleashed Talks 👁

Missed any of the #BitcoinUnleashed talks? You can now watch them back on YouTube! 🍿

Already watched almost all of them? 👀
Reply with your favorite talk for others to see 👇

📺 YouTube playlist 📺

🎓 Stacks Grants Dashboard 🎓

To date, the Stacks Foundation has supported over 200 grantees. If you’re one of them, thank you ❤️

Grantees have a major positive cascading effect on the ecosystem, so increasing program throughput is one of the best things we can do to support the Stacks network. 🙏

That's why we introduced the Grants Dashboard 🚀
The Grants Dashboard will service several programs including Stacks Grants, Stacks Residents, Chapter Grants, and Wishlist Grants.

Read the full article

🚨 Stacks 🤝 KYVE Network 🚨

Thanks to KYVE adding support for the Stacks blockchain, developers can now access raw data from a wide variety of KYVE-supported blockchains via an API to build out more diverse apps. 🚀

Read the full announcement here 👈

🚨 The latest Xverse wallet version is now released🚨

Fixes:

✅ NFT viewing and transfers restored
✅ Fixed password being required multiple times
✅ Fixed not being able to enter http URLs in browser
✅ Fixed QR code scanning screen not being dismissed after scanning
✅ Fixed inability to change fiat currency
✅ Fixed nonce input appearing when updating transaction fees
✅ Fixed issues sending NFTs
✅ Fixed issue with not being able to press button on Stacking screen
✅ Fixed incorrect Stacking progress bar

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🏗 Stacking for Bitcoin Core Development 🏗

Brink is proud to announce the recipients of its latest round of open source developer grants. The Brink board of directors has selected four developers who have demonstrated continued commitment to open source Bitcoin development. Meet the new developers 👈

Stacks 🤝 Brink
Brink and the Stacks Foundation Are Supporting Bitcoin Core Development With BTC Yield. Stacking to fuel continued Bitcoin development 🚀

Check out the full article on how Stacking helps Bitcoin development 👈

🔥 Stacks Newsletter: Bitcoin Unleashed Recap 🔥
For those that were able to make the trip to the notable (and beautifully decked out) Faena Forum in Miami, thank you. For all those that joined us virtually, thank you ❤️

📌 Check out the Key Takeaways from Bitcoin Unleashed in the latest Stacks newsletter 👈

Learn Clarity while building Miami’s future 🏙

As a joint venture between CityCoins, the Stacks Foundation, Venture Miami, and Miami-Dade College, comes the MiamiCoin Web3 Developer Camp: a free, 5-week bootcamp that teaches you how to build smart contracts using Clarity.

Check out the full article on how to join 👈

🔉 Stacker Chats with Muneeb Ali 🔉

Stacker Chats returns! Watch Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali explain Stacks' Design and the Bitcoin connection: Here 👈

Listen to the full version on your favourite podcast app 🗣

🎯 Hiro’s Focus for Q2 2022 🎯

Hiro, building developer tools for Stacks so you can build applications for Bitcoin, has released their Q2 focus 🚀

⭐️ Hyperchains
⭐️ Performance optimizations for Clarinet
⭐️ Improve the experience of purchasing $STX
⭐️ Much more!

Read the full Q2 focus article 👈

ICYMI: Arkadiko introduced Liquidation Pool 🔥

People are now able to participate in Vault liquidations without running any specialised software. Just deposit your USDA and earn discounted collateral + yield.

Read Arkadiko's full thread on Twitter 👈

AutoALEX: The Power of Compound Interest 📈

ALEX introduced AutoALEX (atALEX) to address the needs many users have. ✊

atALEX is a novel token that allows:
🚀 Effortless auto-compounding in perpetuity
🚀 Withdrawal of your funds at any time, i.e. no staking lockup
🚀 Use as collateral for maximizing capital efficiency

This article discussed the utilities and advantages atALEX provides.

Here's Why Developers Should Launch New DAO Projects for Bitcoin 🤔

For developers who want to build DAOs, some other blockchains might be top of mind. However, the Bitcoin ecosystem has the cultural resonance, technological capability, and thriving community for the emergence of new DAO projects that will reshape how we run businesses, organizations, and governments. At a fundamental level, DAOs will reshape how people organize together. ✊

Read the full article on why developers should launch new DAOs on Bitcoin (Source: Hiro)

What’s up, Stacks Devs! 👋

There’s a special treat coming up for all the builders in our ecosystem at the end of April. Hiro is excited to announce a new way for devs to connect, stay plugged in, and learn more about how to leverage Hiro and our tools to make the next big dApp.

Introducing the Hiro Monthly Developer Call! This meeting will be an open communication channel between the Hiro product teams and the developers building on Stacks using the Hiro tools. We want to bring visibility into critical product updates, elevate community use-cases, and promote an open feedback forum in these monthly meetings.

The meeting will also serve as an open forum for engineers to ask questions, propose conversation topics, and share feedback about their experience developing on Stacks.

⏰ Date/Time: Fourth Thursday of the month at 16:00 UTC (April 28, 2022)

🎦 Sign up for the call using the dedicated Zoom registration link here:
https://www.hiro.so/calls

🐙 We also created a new Github repository containing all the resources for the meeting. Check it out to read more on the goals of the meeting, preliminary agenda, view past meetings notes, or submit a talking point as an issue.
https://github.com/hirosystems/community-meeting/

🗣 Exploring Stacks 🗣

Although this Telegram Community is probably the most knowledgeable of Stacks, it's always fun to go over the basics and break down the Stacks core to make it appealing to the masses ✊

📺 Watch Stacks Venture's own Trevor Owens explore Stacks

🌆 CityCoins Expanding Services via 11 New Incubated Projects

The Stacks Ventures project incubator has accepted 11 projects to help make CityCoins more appealing to global mayors who want to utilize a digital asset to receive rewards and bolster their economies. 📈

Stacks Ventures is a $4 million incubator for projects on the Stacks Bitcoin layer-2 smart contract solution. CityCoins is a project that enables partnered city governments to launch their own token on Stacks 🚀

Read the full Cointelegraph Article 👈

🔥 Releasing Your Own NFT on Bitcoin 🔥

STXNFT released their Guide to the STXNFT Create Portal on how you can release your own NFT collection 🚀

Do you want to launch your own collection? Read the full article here 👈

🚨 Stacks 🤝 Liquid 🚨

Excited to announce that $STX is now live on Liquid’s JPY and USDT Market 🚀

The first on-ramp to the Japanese Yen with the STX-JPY market pair. A new way for the Stacks community in Japan to leverage $STX 🙏

Read more 👈