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 👇

Stacks Improvement Proposals Community Calls
How can we make Bitcoin and Stacks feel more unified? 🤔

Watch Ken Liao (Founder Xverse), Trevor Owens (Stacks Ventures Managing Partner), Mark (Founder Megapont) & others discuss increasing Bitcoiners participation here 👇

💡 Builders Spotlight: StackerDAO Labs 💡
StackerDAO Labs is a one-stop shop to create and manages DAOs secured by Bitcoin. Their mission is to unleash community ownership by building infrastructure and tools for people to create and manage Bitcoin DAOs.

🏗 Building a no-code platform so anyone can spin up their own DAO without a developer background.

Read the full deep dive here 👇

What makes Clarity (Stacks) Smart Contracts Safe? 👁
Post Conditions make it easier for developers to build safe applications and for users to be safer users of those applications.

Post conditions allow the developer of an application to append a set of conditions that must be met. If these conditions are not met, the transaction will abort and the user will only be out the transaction fee.

Watch Clarity Educator @themariaverse explain Post Conditions in more detail 👇

🚀 Introducing the new builders on Stacks secured by Bitcoin
The Startup Lab has produced 10 teams that will kickstart their career on Stacks, with some of them going into the Stacks Accelerator program.

Introducing the likes of @DeepLakeFinance @BitFlow_Finance @stxfrc @NFT2Loan & more in this Stacks exclusive article 👇
Read more

📺 Live in 1 hour: Hiring... in a bear 📺

📆 12 PM - (EST)

🤔 Looking to get hired in crypto?
🤔 Looking to hire top tier employees?

Join Executive Director of the Stacks Open Internet Foundation Brittany Laughlin in conversation with Olga Etkina, the Lead Talent Acquisition Partner at Hiro Systems, as they give you actionable insights for keeping your crypto project going no matter what the price is as well as what companies are looking for in candidates that are looking to make a switch to Web3!

👇 Register for today 👇

10 Tips from Stacks / Bitcoin Wallet Xverse to Keep Your Crypto Safe 🔒

1. Choose platforms built on a secure blockchain
2. Use a self-custodial wallet
3. Backup your secret recovery phrase
4. Consider a hot-cold wallet hybrid approach
5. Require a minimum two signatures for each transaction

& more 🚀
Read the full article here 👇

👥 Stacks Community Call 👥
The latest Stacks Community Call, with updates from all the Grants, Residents and Chapters is out 🚀

Watch updates from all Stacks Foundation funded efforts like Trajan, Airdrop, Clarity on Replit, Novum, Insights, Stacks Force, StackStation DAO, Stallet, STX Health Wallet, Clarity Education Team, Clarity Innovation Lab, Toggle, Friedger, Ileana Malacrino (NFT Resident), Stacks Indonesia Community, Stacks Austin Community, Stacks Australian Community

📺 Watch the new Stacks community (August 2022) call 👈
📆 Set a reminder for the call on Thursday 👈

Hiro Developer Survey - Attention to all developers 🗣
Hiro wants to learn about your experience using Hiro products.
They also want to get to know you—what inspires and motivates you as a developer?

As a thank you for completing the survey, we’ve created a special edition NFT. Be one of the first 300 developers to complete the survey and we’ll send one your way!

Are you a developer, fill in the survey now 👇

Stacks 2.1 - Strengthening The Connection to Bitcoin 🌐
tacks is the top Web3 project on Bitcoin today, and this is just the beginning. We’re excited to highlight the updates proposed for the network in Stacks 2.1 — an upgrade that will strengthen the connection between Stacks and Bitcoin.

TL;DR Stacks 2.1 ↩️
🚀 Enables more efficient Bitcoin yield via Stacking
🚀 Bridges to other networks to be more robust
🚀 Simplify the ways developers can link and trigger interactions between Stacks and Bitcoin
🚀 Lay some helpful groundwork for Subnets which can bring additional speed and scalability to the network when launched.

Read more on what to expect ⬇️

How to become part of the process determining which initiatives get funded
In effort to make the Grants Program funding process more decentralized, we need the help of the Stacks community to indicate which Grants will help grow the Stacks ecosystem.

How to indicate that a Grant is helpful for the whole community?
1️⃣ Like (add a 👍 emoji) & comment beneath Grant requests to indicate your interest in the initiative.
2️⃣ Click watch (👁 logo) on the Github Issue board where all new Grants will be posted.

When reviewing Grants, ask yourself: Does this Grant
❓ Accelerate a broader adoption of Stacks technology?
❓ Unlock immediate and widespread value for the Stacks community?
❓ Yield new & novel: code, technology, and/or culture on Stacks?
❓ Have a crystal-clear scope, objective, and audience?
❓ Have a crystal-clear and measurable (and verifiable) definition of success?

View the issue board to start reviewing Grants 👇

Bitcoin Layers Vs Stacks
Stacks is connected in more ways than any other Bitcoin layer 👀

Watch Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali break down the differences between Bitcoin layers, together with Gina Ambrams here 👇