Oh wow do we have a treat this week for all you hackers out there. The Hiro Monthly Developer Call is back in action! Tune in this Thursday, October 27th @ 16:00 UTC (12:00pm EST). ⚠️

This month we have a jam-packed agenda with a rockstar guest list. You’ll be hearing the latest and greatest Stacks ecosystem updates straight from the source. 🚰

📊 Brian Franklin will be coming on to spill the tea on results from Hiro’s latest Developer Survey! Come hear all the interesting takeaways from the Stacks dev community.

🔮 Maxim Efremov will be looking into the crystal ball, and giving us a sneak peek of upcoming Clarity upgrades with the launch of Stacks 2.1.

💰I know Thanksgiving isn’t until next month, but this month it’s Grantsgiving! Our friend from the Stacks Foundation, Will Corcoran, will be joining the meeting to give a rundown of the multitude of improvements to the Stacks Grants process.

🍊 For those who are still dealing with FOMO from missing all the festivities in Bitcoin Amsterdam, the Zest Protocol team will be on the call (fresh off their testnet launch!) to share a brief recap on all the happenings from Stacks’ Eurotrip.

Cannot wait to see all you diehard devs this week, and discuss the latest hot topics from around web3 🌎3️⃣

You can get all registered for the session here: https://hiro.so/calls

👤 Community Call: Next week 👤

✅ 11 new Grantees have been onboarded
✅ Residents onboarding builders
✅ Chapters introducing #Stacks locally

Let's recap what happened in October ⭐️

📅 Nov 3. 11AM (ET)
👇 Save a spot for the event 👇

ALEX: Pioneering Bitcoin DeFi
Non-custodial #Bitcoin on Stacks is the key to:

▶️ Billions Bitcoin capital flowing into Stacks
▶️ The ultimate use case for Bitcoin #DeFi
▶️ Bitcoin -> productive asset

Ethereum Bridge: ALEX is also building "Bridge", connecting USDC on Ethereum with xUSD on Stacks. Bridge is a wrapped bridge, with Tokensoft as the tech partner.

👇 Watch the full video 👇

⭐️ Stacks Startup Lab: Bootcamp
📆 The deadline for the Stacks Startup Lab bootcamp ➡️ November 5th
🚀 Jumpstart your Web3 startup with a supportive and fast growing Web3 community.

📈 Stacks Startup Lab Cohort 1
- Stacks Force launched 3 games
- BitFlow Finance launched their Beta
- Liquidium (formerly NFT2Loan) launched testnet
- Much more startups will launch soon

Are you the next builder that starts a company on Stacks 👀?
Help onboard the next generation of Stacks builders 👉 Share & Apply here 👈

🚨 State of #Stacks Q3 2022 🚨
ICYMI: Messari released their Q3 State of Stacks report 🚀

💡 Highlights:
📈 QoQ 60% growth in smart contract deployment
📈 Stackers holding for the long term
📈 2022 average Stacking yield of 9% in #Bitcoin

Read the full report by Messari 👈

🚨 Live in 10 minutes: Gaming on Stacks 🚨
The future of gaming on #Stacks looks bright 🚀

Join StacksDegens @BowTiedSirJonat together with @0ZeroAuthority Stacks Force
's @KozlovAnatoly & @NRedkie discussing the future of on-chain gaming with #Stacks

👇 Join us 👇

🚨 Community Call: in 10 minutes 🚨
Join all the #Stacks builders during this month's community call 🚀

⏰ Starting in 10 minutes ⏰

👇 Come join here👇

📺 This Week's Stacks Events 📺
An exciting week of live events ahead! Let's take a look 👇

👁 Starting in 30 minutes: Hiro is hosting a Discord NFTs on Bitcoin, event together with many special guests
👁 Wednesday: Let's talk Non-custodial Bitcoin on Stacks (Twitter spaces)
👁 Thursday: What's next in web3 with Stacks Foundation Exec. Dir. Brittany Laughlin (Twitter spaces)
👁 Friday: SIP Community Call (Stacks 2.1) (Zoom)
👁 End of November: Stacks Degens announced their technical session on integrating NFTs into games (Register)

We'll see you there 🚀

🚨 Grant Cohort 19: Applications closing...

Just one week left until the Grant application process for Cohort 19 closes. If you want to apply for funding to help grow the Stacks ecosystem, do it now!

Checkout the Grants launchpad for more information 👇

📺 Why Stacks? A Robust Architecture for Building

Why not just Bitcoin? Why not just Ethereum? Why no Solana? What makes Stacks so great? 🤔

If you ever had one of the questions listed above, this video from Stacks Foundation developer advocate Kenny Rogers will provide you with the answers 👈

Stacks 2.1: Your Guide to Voting 🚀
With this upgrade, expect more efficient Bitcoin yield via Stacking, more robust bridges to other networks, more simplicity with how developers can link and trigger interactions between Stacks and Bitcoin, and helpful groundwork for Subnets - which will bring additional speed and scalability to the network once launched.

Voting
Voting will take place during Stacking rewards cycles 46 and 47, estimated to begin around November 10, 2022 and end around December 8, 2022.

Check out the full guide 👇

Stacks 2.1 Upgrade is Approaching — Enhanced Connection between Stacks & Bitcoin | Written by GM Chung

Just as the Ethereum ecosystem has grown through this year's the merge, various innovations & changes are taking place on Bitcoin as well. In particular, Stacks is injecting new utility into Bitcoin by introducing a smart contract layer without modifying Bitcoin.

Expected to be at the end of this year, the Stacks 2.1 upgrade is the biggest update since the launch of the Stacks 2.0 mainnet, and will provide the foundation for a stronger relationship between Stacks chain and Bitcoin chain.

In the article below, you can find the major changes and improvements the upcoming upgrade will bring and how it will affect.

https://medium.com/despread-global/stacks-2-1-upgrade-is-approaching-enhanced-connection-between-stacks-bitcoin-bc7e0aa37c67

https://twitter.com/gmchung94/status/1590601841297231872

The Stacks community delivers 👇🚀
✅ @MattySTX Tokenomics guide
✅ @ileanamalacrino @Themintery Cohort 2
✅ @StacksAdvoxDAO Cohort 1 launch
✅ @StacksATX Local Clarity cohort
👀 Much more!

Watch the full Stacks Community Update Call 👇

🚨 Grants Program funding application closing on Monday!

Do you want to add value to the Stacks community? We provide support for developers, designers, community leaders, and more through grants ⤵️

1️⃣ Read the GitHub repository
2️⃣ Apply for a Grant 👈

Grants Cohort 18 & 19 Update
The GitHub board shows you all projects currently active in the Program.
Remember: you can add the Launchpad to your watchlist by clicking on the 👁

View current Grant cohort 18 projects and cohort 19 applications 👈

🔔 Stacks 2.1 Review & Voting 🔔

Watch back all @Stacks Improvement Proposal calls on #Stacks 2.1 ⤵️

1️⃣ Codex reviewing Stacks 2.1
2️⃣ Hero Gamer voting walkthrough
3️⃣ Jude Nelson Stacks 2.1 Q&A

Here 👈

How to Vote?
1️⃣ Go to Website
2️⃣ Click Vote Now
3️⃣ Connect Wallet
4️⃣ Enter the STX amount
5️⃣ Pick Yes or No
6️⃣ Send TX
7️⃣ Claim badge

The Stacks Community helps you find your role in creating a user-owned internet 🚀 with free programs ready for you to join:

1️⃣ Learn to create smart contracts with Clarity Education Camp
2️⃣ Found your Startup with the Startup Lab
3️⃣ Scale & grow your startup with the Stacks Accelerator
4️⃣ Apply for funding to help grow Stacks
5️⃣ Apply for a job in the Stacks ecosystem

📅 This week's event calendar
👀 Starting in 1 hour: Join the Xverse team and the Stacks SIP Resident @Hero Gamer ⚡️ during the Stacks 2.1 Voting walkthrough here 👈

👀 Learn how to integrate NFTs into Web Apps with Stacks Degens Developer "The Deployer" here 👈

👀 How to create, grow and scale your startup with Trevor Owens, Albert Liang and Jake Blockchain here 👈

5 ways Stacks 2.1 will mobilize the Bitcoin economy
⭐️ Continuous Stacking Cycles
⭐️ Receive Stacking Rewards Using Any Bitcoin Address
⭐️ BTC <> STX Swaps
⭐️ Bridges to Other Chains
⭐️ Sending Assets to BTC Addresses

👇 Read the full Xverse article 👇

Moving forward from this week in crypto
(Gamma article An opinion piece by sarah.btc)

🏦 The role of centralized entities in decentralized territory
🔑 Ownership over your assets
⛓ NFTs onboard users to self-custody solutions
🔓 Security best practices

"Ownership in the land of decentralization and Web3.0 doesn’t mean buying and holding crypto. It means having exclusive and secure access to your assets that nobody — especially not a centralized custodian — can take away from you."

Hiro Systems: Release Roundup - October 2022
In October we shipped a number of updates across our products, including API v6, the ability to search by .btc name in the Explorer, a new re-architected VS Code extension, and our team continued to work toward code completion of Stacks 2.1. Let’s jump in. (full Hiro article)

✅ SIP (@Stacks Improvement Proposal) Call 🔎 with
@herogamer21btc

💬 What: Open Discussion
📅 When: TODAY - 11am ET (Starting in 1 hour)

📍Add the SIP call to your calendar
Join the conversation! Help improve #Stacks ✊💜