⛓ Clarinet Roadmap: Looking to the Future ⛓
Topic: A Deep Dive on Hiro's Developer Tools

When Hiro first envisioned Clarinet, they wanted to build a tool that was indispensable for developers, from writing the very first line of code all the way to smart contract deployment on mainnet. Over time, Clarinet has evolved as the Hiro team has rolled out new features, talked to developers, and adapted to the changing needs of the Stacks community.

This article covers the future of Clarinet 👇

Trust Machines Accelerating the Growth of the Bitcoin Economy 🚀

Trust Machines CEO & Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali sat down with Gina Abrams to discuss Dan Held joining Trust Machines & the future for Trust Machines with Stacks 🗣

Trust Machines
Trust Machine's objective is to establish the greatest ecosystem of Bitcoin applications and expand the Bitcoin economy. It was co-founded by Princeton computer scientists Dr. Muneeb Ali and Professor J.P. Singh.

Watch the latest Stacker Chats 👈

Bitcoin DeFi: Unpacking the Key Drivers Behind the Popularity of DeFi Technologies 🏦
Topic: A Deep Dive on Bitcoin DeFi

DeFi technologies enable permissionless transactions for anyone from anywhere in the world without regard to their ethnicity, social status, political affiliation, or any other factor. DeFi make many things possible, such as ⬇️

1️⃣ Transparent and Publicly Available Information
2️⃣ Self-Custody for Economic Autonomy and Independence
3️⃣ Creation of a Unified Global Market

Read the full deep dive on Decentralized Finance 👇

🚨 ICYMI: Newsletter - State of the Network 🚨
In case you missed it: Stacks Q1 to Q2 review 🚀

1️⃣ STX Addresses 417K to 444,490
2️⃣ Smart Contracts 3,235 to 5,127
3️⃣ TVL 478M STX to 524M
4️⃣ BTC Rewards 1127 BTC to 1770 BTC
5️⃣ Entities 45 to 72
6️⃣ Trading Pairs 38 to 49
7️⃣ Transactions crossed 1.5M from 1M
8️⃣ Three new SIPs got approved: SIP 016 Metadata for Tokens , SIP 018 Arbitrary messages, SIP 019 Notifications for Token Metadata Updates

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ALEX Orderbook Testnet is open 👀
The ALEX Lab Foundation has launched the Orderbook Testnet. ALEX' goal is always to build together. With your test and feedback, they will create a better protocol.

Community members who participate in testing, provide feedback and help ALEX improve will be rewarded. Please see the guide below on how to join ALEX in this journey.

View the guide 👈
Get whitelisted here 👈

Twitter Spaces: Ryder Announcement 🗣
Join the Ryder team, together with many other Stacks community leaders today during the weekly Crypto Internet Show 🚀

Ryder announcing namespaces... 👀

Line-up
Host: Kyle Ellicott, @Kyleellicott
Muneeb Ali, Stacks and Trust Machines, @Muneeb
Patrick Stanley, CityCoins, @PatrickWStanley
Brittany Laughlin, Stacks Foundation, @br_ttany
Louise Ivan, Ryder, Stacks Foundation, @louiseivanvp
Friedger Müffke, Ryder, Friedger Pool, @fmdroid

Set a reminder 👈

Builder Story - DLC: Startup ➡️ Accelerator ➡️ Grant ➡️ & beyond
DLC.Link is building infrastructure that will let Clarity app developers use native Bitcoin locked in escrow.

A DLC lets you use your Bitcoin without needing to transfer it elsewhere. The solution to using Bitcoin in other systems has been to send it over to a custodian - you can either bridge it to another protocol, but you then send it to that protocol to lock up/secure.

👇 Read the full story of DLC link 👇

Hyperchains - The next unlock for the Stacks Blockchain
Hiro delivered the core functionality aspects of a hyperchain so far and they made lots of progress to reach this point. There are several projects we are working on, including:

⭐️ API integration and Stacks.js support
⭐️ Performance benchmarking & improvements
⭐️ Abstraction layer for plug and play

Read the full Hiro Hyperchains article 👇

🚨 ICYMI: Purchasing Bitcoin & Stacks Directly in Xverse's Wallet
Xverse, the most advanced web3 Bitcoin wallet, is thrilled to announce that users can now purchase Bitcoin (BTC) and STX, the native token of the Stacks blockchain, directly in the app.

This is possible thanks to integrations with MoonPay, a leading crypto payments firm that provides on-ramp services 🚀

Read the full article here 👈

How to Buy Stacks NFTs Secured by Bitcoin on Mobile 🤔
Tired of explaining the process of minting, buying, selling and sending an NFT to your friends and family?

➡️ Send them this video instead 📺

👇 Watch the full video 👇

The Weekly Stack: Bear Market Survival Guide
Read up on Gamma's weekly newsletter 🗞

⭐️ Surviving the Bear Market
⭐️ Launching an NFT Project
⭐️ More 🚀

Read & Subscribe 👇

Stacks Startup Lab: Pre-accelerator for Web3 Startups
The Stacks Web3 Founders Lab is a venture that includes a 2-month “bootcamp-style” pre-accelerator for Web3 startups. On Sunday, July 31st, 9 teams finally presented their learnings and work at the pre-accelerator's Demo Day.

This article introduces you to the 10 teams that presented their learnings and work and the demo day.

Apply for the next pre-accelerator cohort now 👈

🚨 Stacks Weekly SIP Community Calls 🚨

✅ SIP (Stacks Improvement Proposal) Call 🔎

🗒 What: SIP update + Open discussion
📅 When: Friday 19th August - 11am EST
📍 Where: See below

Become part of the core community improving the blockchain ✊💜

Add the SIP Community call to your agenda 👇

🚨 Stacks Twitter Spaces: Grants Program Funding 🚨
The Stacks Foundation Grants Program's funding the next generation of #Stacks builders 🏗 Growing our community 🚀

But what type of initiatives get funded? 🤔

Join Kyle Ellicott together w/ Will Corcoran, Brittany Laughlin & more during this spaces 🗣

🗓 When: in 1 hour ⏰

👇 Set reminder 👇

Stacks NFT Newsletter by NFT Marketplace Gamma 📰

⭐️ Community Round Table
Gamma has started the Community Round Table where artists can join to discuss collabs, community building and new dev features.

⭐️ Ryder has re-launched Digital Identities secured by Bitcoin
You can now own a handle in your favorite crypto community. Sign-in across apps and send and receive transactions.

⭐️ Exciting Drops & Releases
This week Gamma's featuring an incredible artist in the Gamma community, Dee. Dee is a self-taught artist and designer.


Read here 👇

Hyperchains ➡️ Subnets 🕸
Hiro announced that the big new unlock for the Stacks blockchain will be called "Subnets"

What are Subnets?
Subnets are an L2 blockchain for the Stacks mainchain. If the Stacks blockchain is the main network, you can consider subnets as a sub-network (see what we did there) that helps scale the overall Stacks network.

Read the full article here 👇

Example Use Cases of Stacks Smart Contracts 👁
Hiro did a deep dive on different use cases where Stacks Smart Contracts secured by Bitcoin are successfully implemented!

⭐️ ALEX is a next-generation DeFi platform built for the Bitcoin ecosystem using Clarity smart contracts on Stacks.
⭐️ CityPacks is leveraging NFTs as a tool for driving long-lasting and sustainable social good across communities in the United States.
⭐️ Gamma applies Web3 contracts to make NFTs more accessible through a user-first marketplace, creator-first launchpad, and a social platform to bring creators and collectors together.

Read the full blog here (source: Hiro) 👇

👁 Staying up to date with Stacks Blockchain Improvements

🤔 What are Stacks Improvement Proposal (SIP) calls?
The SIPs describe the design, implementation, and governance of the Stacks 2.0 blockchain. The SIP process (SIP-000) describes how to make a SIP and get it ratified. Anyone in the Stacks community may submit a SIP.

🚀 Help improve the Stacks blockchain
If you want to be involved with the improvement of the Stacks blockchain, it makes sense to go over the weekly SIP community calls, available here 👈

Bringing 10x growth to the #Stacks community with this scaling solution 🚀

🤔 What are Subnets?
🌱 Why does Subnets grow Stacks?
💼 What are Subnets use cases?

Join this incredibly exciting discussing on the biggest unlock for Stacks since Stacks 2.0 🔓

Panel:
Host: Kyle Ellicott, @Kyleellicott
Sarala B, Hiro, @saralabp
Pavitthra Pandurangan, Hiro, @pavitthraP
Aaron Blankstein, Hiro, @AaronBlankstein
Muneeb Ali, Stacks and Trust Machines, @muneeb
Brittany Laughlin, Stacks Foundation, @br_ttany
Patrick Stanley, CityCoins, @PatrickWStanley

👇 Set a reminder 👇

🎙️In episode 1 of #OwnYourCrypto, Xverse founder Ken Liao shares the benefits of their upcoming MultiSafe integration, giving users the ability to create a multisig wallet.

https://twitter.com/xverseApp/status/1562831946535026689

What are Bitcoin layers? 🤔
⭐️ Technically, Lightning is chain agnostic, lightning settles on Bitcoin
⭐️ Liquid does not settle on Bitcoin, but has a (pretty centralized) bridge to Bitcoin

🚀 Stacks transactions are settling on Bitcoin
🚀 Stacks smart contracts can read Bitcoin information
🚀 You can issue Bitcoin derived assets on Stacks

Watch Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali explain Bitcoin layers in further detail 👇