🏗 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 👈

📡 ICYMI: DAPPRADAR 🤝 Stacks 📡

Decentralized application tool DappRadar added all prominent Stacks ecosystem apps to help users discover Stacks 🚀

Visibility is of huge importance to the Dapps leveraging Stacks' smart contract language Clarity. 👁

A huge win for the Stacks ecosystem 🙏

Read the full Stacks article 👈

❓ How to Use AutoALEX ❓

The ALEX staking pool now offers two staking options: auto-staking with AutoALEX (atALEX) or manual staking. In this post ALEX explains the difference.

Auto-Staking with AutoALEX
⭐️ True passive income.
⭐️ Never run the risk of missing a rewards cycle
⭐️ Liquidity with no staking lockup.
⭐️ Capital efficiency

Read the full ALEX article 👈

The Next Stacks Webinar 👀

Come see code in action. Clarity is the Stacks programming language built to allow for DeFi on Bitcoin. It was created to be human readable, making it easier to look through the blockchain's data, which has proven helpful in tracking down hacks and many other things.

That's a big +1 for developers and degens alike in this fast-moving world of decentralized finance.

Register now for the webinar on Stacks' smart contract language Clarity. Here 👈

🧪 Stacks Web 2.0 Founders Lab 🧪

Jumpstart Your Future into Web3! Build your startup with a supportive and fast growing Web3 community. 🚀

🤔 What?
A 2-month step-by-step bootcamp for startups with 1 on 1 mentorship offering everything founders need to build your team and solid Web3 startup core to get fast tracked to Stacks Ventures for growth and raising funds.

Go to the website to apply 👈

🚨 Stacks 🤝 RedStone Orcale 🚨

Oracles are essential to connecting blockchains to the real world ✊

That's why developers building on #Bitcoin via Stacks can now integrate secure data feeds since RedStone has added support for Stacks 🚀

Read more 👈

🔬 Composability Deep Dive 🔬

🤔 What is composability and how does it accelerate your web3 Journey on Stacks?

"In software development, composability refers to code's modularity and the ability for developers to take existing code and reuse it, repurpose it, or combine it with other code blocks to create something new." - Hiro Systems

Read the full deep dive on Composability from Hiro 👈

Built on Bitcoin: An Introduction to Full-Stack Web3 Development with Stacks ⛏

1️⃣ What is Stacks
2️⃣ The Stacks Developer Ecosystem
3️⃣ What we'll be building?
4️⃣ How to start building?

Stacks Foundation Brand Developer Advocate Kenny Rogers created a full tutorial on how you can start building web3 with Stacks to accelerate the growth of the Ecosystem 🚀

Interested? Read the full tutorial here 👈

Stacks Dapps 🤝 DappRadar

Excited seeing this many #Stacks Dapps secured by #Bitcoin on DappRadar 😍

DappRadar’s 1 million monthly site visitors can now discover all the apps created with Stacks' smart contract language 🚀

Read more about DappRadar's integration 👈