To celebrate Bitcoin halving, we released the full PoX paper v1.0. This improves on the earlier draft with a dynamic threshold for consensus participation from STX holders, a native delegate operation to delegate STX to other services for consensus particulation amongst other things. Details in the paper: https://twitter.com/muneeb/status/1260230643117699074?s=20

JUST IN: The Stacks Foundation has officially launched today in a major step toward decentralization for the Stacks ecosystem.
https://twitter.com/StacksOrg/status/1263544139263561728

JUST IN: Today, Non-US users will be able to trade STX on KuCoin
https://twitter.com/blockstack/status/1265498329234001922

The second phase of the Stacks 2.0 testnet is live!: https://twitter.com/blockstack/status/1268207553080680459

The winners for Part 1 of the Clarity Hackathon have been announced! All of the submissions really showcased the power of Clarity, and we are already looking forward to the results of Part 2: Tooling. A huge congrats to all of the prize recipients, especially PSQ’s Trustless Token Exchange project for landing the Best Overall Contract award. Head on over to the Hackathon site to check out descriptions and Github links for all of the submissions.
https://community.blockstack.org/clarity-winners

From Forbes Crypto: "Blockstack PBC Makes Case for Blockchain Business Model to Wall Street Analysts"
https://twitter.com/blockstack/status/1270723113710305293

JUST IN: In a major step toward blockchain interoperability, Blockstack PBC and Algorand are working together on the development of the Clarity smart Contract language.
https://www.coindesk.com/algorand-and-blockstack-are-building-a-multi-chain-smart-contract-language

Blockstack is partnering with Dystopia Labs to launch #FutureProof virtual conference: https://twitter.com/blockstack/status/1272973804340297729

Coinbase has just released a new, open-source technical integration framework for assets called Rosetta. We're excited about the potential of Rosetta and to be part of the initial set of projects testing the framework: https://twitter.com/blockstack/status/1273324722252636160

JUST IN: Blockstack makes significant progress towards decentralization with the formation of new entities, including an Asia community entity and an independent investment fund.
https://twitter.com/muneeb/status/1275807086803378176

Updated Blockstack Connect JavaScript library comes with brand new authenticator that simplifies user onboarding and sign-in for Blockstack applications. https://twitter.com/blockstack/status/1276172923812950017

Blockstack PBC engineers have received new US patents on application-specific blockchains and methods for publishing smart contracts, all new patents have been released under the existing PBC patent pledge, as with previous patents.

"The Governance Working Group amplifies and advocates the needs of community members across the Blockstack ecosystem."
https://twitter.com/StacksOrg/status/1278730118429462528

Blockstack Q2 ecosystem updates are live; excited about the progress towards Stacks 2.0 launch (phase 3 Krypton in implementation!), joint support of Clarity language with Algorand, growth of apps like Pravica and Blocksurvey etc: https://twitter.com/muneeb/status/1285205259053346816?s=21

Blockstack joins the Flipside Data Cooperative to bring increased transparency to the Stacks ecosystem: https://twitter.com/flipsidecrypto/status/1285957760660668419

On this Hidden Forces podcast I discuss the recent Twitter hack (my account was also targeted), we go over design principles of the early internet, where we went wrong and how the R&D work we’ve done for the Stacks design directly addresses these issues. Let me know what you think and we can continue this discussion topic in our Telegram — Muneeb https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/muneeb-ali-blockstack-twitter-hack/

You can now view a progress tracker for phase 3 (Krypton) of the Stacks 2.0 testnet on GitHub! Check out the full details here: https://github.com/orgs/blockstack/projects

“Coinbase is exploring support for 19 new digital assets, including Blockstack. See the Coinbase post and read all disclaimers there: https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1289184181289967617”

Tune in to a panel discussion featuring Muneeb Ali, Vitalik Buterin, Sergey Nazarov & Daniel Wang at #EDCON2020

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JUST IN: Blockstack PBC is contributing 100M STX (~$23M at today’s price) to the independent Stacks Foundation.

We believe in their mission to deliver the promise of Web 3; apps and smart contracts connected to Bitcoin.

https://twitter.com/muneeb/status/1292823214717050882