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Okcoin's Stacks recap - June 2022 edition 📆
Here’s OKcoin's monthly recap of what’s going on and being built in the Stacks ecosystem 🔍

⭐️ Stacks went to Bitcoin Unleashed to discuss our support for Bitcoin Odyssey
⭐️ Trust Machines raised $150 million
⭐️ GameFi, NFTs, and metaverse projects keep flourishing on Stacks 🚀

Read the full recap here 👇
Hey everyone, here are all known notable events, features/changes, and updates from the month of June 2022 👋

1️⃣ STX/MIA and STX/NYC trading pair went live on block height 62,876.

2️⃣ Co-Farm with ALEX went live! Read the full details on Co-Farm HERE

3️⃣ 2nd Lockdrop snapshot taken!

4️⃣ Borrow & Lend has just gone live on ALEX! The very first Borrow & Lend will CRP enabled! Read full details HERE

5️⃣ ALEX Lottery has gone live on Block 66,551! Read the full detail HERE

👇 Some press & media shoutouts from June! 👇

1️⃣ Realvision

2️⃣ Spotify [ALEX AND THE FUTURE OF FINANCE]

3️⃣ XVerse tutorial with ALEX
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Check out the Gov Update: HERE
Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali about Jack Dorsey's Web5 🗣
"The more builders there are in the Bitcoin ecosystem, the better. It's better to think about how we can grow together as a collective"

"These projects have historically not been able to get developers"

👇 Listen to Muneeb Ali's view on Web5 here 👇
ICYMI: Blockchain.com adds wallet support for $STX
Blockchain.com, the world’s most popular crypto wallet, has added Wallet support for $STX. With STX support already available on Blockchain.com’s Exchange, users will be able to toggle between the Wallet and Exchange to buy, sell, and earn $STX rewards 🚀

👇 Link to article 👇
Stacks Foundation Jumpstarts New Program Providing Financial Relief for Women in Afghanistan
The Stacks Foundation has created an innovative social good program that leverages yield from cryptocurrency, specifically $STX, to fund thousands of women in Afghanistan seeking financial relief. The program is in partnership with the Stacks Foundation, Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organization, and OpenGrants ❤️

Read the full article here 👇
The Weekly Stack: Gamma NFT Updates 📰
Our friends are Gamma.io are releasing a weekly newsletter covering everything surrounding NFT events & upcoming mints 🚀

This week:
⭐️ Meet the Creators
⭐️ NFTNYC Recap
⭐️ Gamma Updates

Read last week's newsletter & subscribe here 👈
Stacks Community Events: June Recap 📆
It has been incredible seeing so many Stacks community members attending real life and virtual events 🚀 June has been a whirlwind of exciting conferences, hackathons, workshops and meetups. Web3Week, Consensus 2022, NFTNYC, Miami for Everyone, Dev Workshops etc. 🤯

Check out what we’ve been up to and find out how you can join us at future events 👇
Bringing Speed to the Stacks Blockchain
In this video, Aaron Blankstein, Staff Software Engineer at Hiro, explains hyperchains, a layer-2 scaling solution for the Stacks blockchain. Hyperchains will offer the ability to process high throughput and low latency workloads, enabling developers to build fast and reliable experiences on Stacks 🚀

Watch here 👇
ICYMI: You're still part of the #1 Web3b project on Bitcoin 👀
📈 STX Addresses from 417K (Q1-2022) to 444,490 (Q2-2022)
📈 Smart Contracts built from (Q1-2022) 3,235 to 5,127 (Q2-2022)
📈 Entities building on Stacks from 45 to 72
📈 TVL 478M $STX to 524M $STX

The Stacks community has proven the incredible potential of smart contracts for Bitcoin, from DeFi to NFTs, city coins to philanthropic efforts, portable identity to new infrastructure

Read the Cointelegraph article 👇
The number one Stacks Bitcoin blogging platform is announcing their update 🚀
Sigle, the Decentralised and open-source Web 3.0 writing platform, has announced a major update ❤️

The update involves:
✍️ writers on Sigle will be able to monitor their growth and better understand their community.
🌐 Ceramic protocol Stacks Grant
👁 Changelog Sigle 1.3
⭐️ More!

Read the full Sigle article here 👇
Start becoming a Stacks Contributor & Builder 👷
Let's accelerate the growth of the Stacks community 🚀

Ever thought about making a move to crypto?
Make yourself visible for the Stacks projects and join the conversation 🗣

Search for jobs & join the talent pool 👇
Gamma updates the NFT Creator Tool 🚀
New features are introduced to make it easier for artists and creators to start their new NFT project on Stacks!

⭐️ Continuous collections
⭐️ Managing Smart Contracts
⭐️ Customized sale framework
⭐️ Much more!

Read the full thread on what's updated here 👇
📺 Miner Incentives for Bitcoin 📺
The Bitcoin Miner incentives are a very important topic ☝️
Bitcoin runs on this newly minted coins that are coming and not the transaction fees, and that's the biggest criticism that gets brought up.

👇 Watch Muneeb explain this concept 👇
Stacking on Mobile with Xverse 🚀
Stacking is a novel technique that rewards STX token holders for participating in the Proof of Transfer consensus process on the Stacks blockchain (PoX).

Earning up to 10% annual Bitcoin yield by doing so 📈

Read through the full tutorial & share it with your non-stacking friends 👈

Rather share the video version, you can do so here 👈
The Stacks Bitcoin connection explained by a Clarity developer 👁
🤔 Why does Stacks make the critique on Bitcoin's energy consumption less valid?
🤔 How is Stacks connected to Bitcoin?
🤔 Why does me stacking $STX help the Stacks blockchain?

Stacks Foundation Developer Advocate Kenny Rogers perfectly answers these questions for you 🚀

👇 Watch the full video here 👇
Stacks NFTs Secured by Bitcoin Are Thriving 🚀
So much is happening in the Stacks NFT space ⤵️

⭐️ Bitcoin Monkeys Eggs Minting July 22
⭐️ Megapont announced the internactive Kong Fu mint
⭐️ The Mintery starting up the next cohort to onboard new Stacks NFT projects (deadline to apply: 27th)
⭐️ Satoshibles successfully launched Monster Satoshibles
⭐️ So much more 🤯

The Stacks community does what it's best at, building 🏗
Introducing the Stacks Roadmap 🛣
The Stacks Foundation set out to create one place where roadmap-related content can be collected and displayed. At a glance, you should be able to tell what major improvements are coming up as well as get a sense for smaller tooling, team, or other more specific updates.

TL;DR:
The top section = big picture direction stuff for the network
The bottom section = day to day updates and granular progress

Read more about the Roadmap 👈
The Roadmap 👈
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Megapont Newsletter 📰🦍
Stacks NFT market leader Megapont is not slowing down 📈
This newsletter covers the highlights of what the Megapont team have been working on, including:

📌 $MEGA coin
📌 Kong Fu: The new interactive NFT drop
📌 More exciting news
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🗞 Former 'Bitcoin Maximalist' Dan Held sees a future in DeFi for the digital asset

Dan Held will be officially joining the community to support Bitcoin adoption & growth 🚀

He will be taking an active role building DeFi products on top of Bitcoin, starting with a marketing partner role at Bitcoin-focused ecosystem and platform, Trust Machines.

👇 The full article 👇
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Stacks enables Bitcoin applications, but what does that mean in practice? 🤔
The Stacks blockchain is uniquely positioned to make reading from the Bitcoin chain easy for smart contracts on the Stacks network, and proof-of-transfer consensus even makes certain kinds of bitcoin transactions programmable from the Stacks network. 🚀

This post will cover two different kinds of applications that can make use of this power (bridges and programmable proof-of-transfer slots), and discuss some proposed mechanisms in SIP-015 that make implementing those applications possible in the Stacks network 🌐

Read the full Hiro article 👇
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Bitcoin DeFi protocol Arkadiko Summer Update
Arkadiko has shared an update on their protocol 🚀

⭐️ Announcing Arkadiko Keepers: Smart contract automation for Stacks developers
⭐️ Front-end updates
⭐️ New collateral
⭐️ Arkadroids NFT projects: created to reward loyal members and to bring some new eyes to Arkadiko.

👇 Read more 👇