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 👈

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

🗞 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 👇

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 👇

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 👇

Built on Bitcoin Podcast: DLC link, Stacks Ventures, No-Code Clarity & more 🚀
Want to know more about the exciting Stacks community? Jake Blockchain is bringing you the Built on Bitcoin Show, available on every podcast app & YouTube.

🔉 E74 - Investing in the Future of Web3 with Kyle Ellicott
🔉 E72 - Unlocking Native Bitcoin on Stacks with DLC.link
🔉 E70 - Building Apps on Stacks with No-Code Christopher Perceptions

How do Bitcoin Smart Contracts Work? 🤔
Struggle to explain the concept of Bitcoin Smart Contracts to your friends? Want to support the Stacks community by spreading the word of unleashing Bitcoin's full potential? Hiro released this amazing article on how Bitcoin Smart Contracts work 👇

Bitcoin rarely featured in the discussion of smart contracts because it had a limited scripting language that prioritized security over programmability.That’s changing thanks to Stacks: Bitcoin smart contracts are now here. Developers now have options for building Web3 applications beyond Ethereum and other emerging blockchains. Read more 👈

🚨 Stacks Community Call 🚨
Discover the achievements of our community's Grants, Residents & Chapters during the Community Call 🚀

🗣 Speaking:
Flatlay, Byzantion, Vestly App, Clarity Innovation Lab (MarvinJanssen), Clarity Universe (Education) & Chapters Stacks Australia, Indonesia & Austin.

Save your spot 👇

Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali explaining the 2022 focus areas for Stacks 🚀
⭐️ Increasing blockchain speed & capacity
⭐️ Bringing in more developers & builders to the Stacks community
⭐️ More...

Watch the full Stacker Chats with Muneeb Ali & Gina Abrams 👇

Bitcoin as a Tool Vs The Community
"A simple message for devs:

- Bitcoin base should remain simple.
- Bitcoin layers are good for Bitcoin.
- Bitcoin community welcomes devs."

- Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali

Watch Muneeb Ali explain the different between Bitcoin as a tool Vs the community
Watch the full video on the difference 👇