📢 We're hosting a Twitter AMA with Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali on Monday
Do you have a question about Bitcoin layer Stacks, Ordinals or building on Bitcoin with sBTC?


Reply below this Telegram message with your question 👇

⏰ Set a reminder for the AMA ⏰

Accepted Grants & Residency to grow the Stacks ecosystem 🚀
⭐️ Decentralizing the Stacks network through mining is one of the top priorities for Stacks ecosystem. The Stacks Foundation therefore awarded a grant to @BowTiedSirJonathan & the Stacks Degens team who will work on making this happen. (GitHub)
⭐️ Fungible Systems will update the Stacking Club website / tool for continuous stacking with the support of the following accepted grant (GitHub)
⭐️ @andre.btc / @andrerserrano has been approved as the new sBTC Resident to drive awareness, adoption and support for sBTC (GitHub)

Why Bitcoin Builders Are Excited About sBTC on Stacks?
Listen to Xverse CEO Ken Liao, Zest Protocol Founder Tycho Onnasch, Gamma Founder Jamil, Podcast Host Jake Blockchain and more to find out about the potential of sBTC.

Watch the video 👇

🏗 Building on Bitcoin Hackathon
7 Days till deadline
A virtual hackathon where you'll build your very own smart contracts using Clarity. The hack will let you experiment and familiarize yourself with Clarity’s developer environment.

⏰ Today: Join us for office hours sessions on February 28th and March 2nd at 11:00am EST in Discord

Join here 👇

sBTC Update: Bitcoin Writes
⭐️ The sBTC system has potential to support ordinals
⭐️ Jude Nelson shared his Mini-sBTC proposal


Read up on the latest #Bitcoin writes (sBTC) news with sBTC resident Andre.btc 👇

🏗 Building the future of #Bitcoin layer #Stacks
⭐️ Stacks Startups kicked off cohort 3
⭐️ Bitcoin Startup pre-accelerator cohort 3 in progress
⭐️ Clarity Camp smart contract education in progress

We can't wait too see what the next generation of #Bitcoin builders will build 💜

Do you want to:
1️⃣ Learn how to create smart contracts? 👉 Explore here
2️⃣ Create your startup? 👉 Explore here
3️⃣ Scale your existing startup 👉 Explore here

STX Price Stacks Up Well, Outperforming Bitcoin
(Source: Blockworks)

The native token of Bitcoin layer-2 protocol Stacks (STX) has seen its value soar this year with its performance continuing to carry over into March, edging it to a top spot this week.

Following the buzz generated by the Ordinals on Bitcoin, which opened the floodgates for non-fungible token use cases on the world’s oldest blockchain, STX is riding shotgun.

Read more 👇

Sending $BTC to your .btc address 👀?
Building on Bitcoin entity Mechanism's Hank.btc teased a new feature for the Bitcoin / Stacks Hiro wallet that allows you to send Bitcoin to your .btc name.

Visit Hank.btc's GitHub issue for more information 👈

🚀 Over 200,000 .btc Bitcoin Name System names registered
Secured by the most secure and robust blockchain, Bitcoin

What are these decentralized identities? 🤔
Think .com, but for Web3. In the early days of the internet, users had to enter a long and complicated IP address to reach a website. Then Domain Name Service (DNS) came along, which was a naming system that allowed users to type in a human-readable text string ending in .com to access their favorite websites. In the same way that DNS made the Internet more user-friendly, Bitcoin Name System (BNS aka .btc) stands to do the same for the world of Web3.

Read more 👇

Laura Shin, writer, crypto journalist, and podcaster recently sat down with the Stacks Founder and CEO of Trust Machines, Muneeb Ali to talk about the much hyped Bitcoin Ordinals 🖼️

ℹ️ What are Ordinals? In the simplest of explanation, Ordinals are non-fungible tokens (NFT) you can mint on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Watch the full episode below👇
https://t.co/LWaTWtjqO6

🗞 Weekly sBTC Newsletter
sBTC will be the biggest unlock for Bitcoin this year!
Read up on the latest updates around sBTC.

⭐️ Published Go-To-Market Flywheel
⭐️ sBTC roadmap update with GTM working group.
⭐️ Progress: Peg-In integration test
⭐️ Much more

Read the full newsletter 👇

You don't want to miss this episode of Built on Bitcoin podcast. 🎙️

JakeTheBlockhChain interviewed Hiro's Maxim Efremov to discuss the various tools developers can take advantage of when building on top of Bitcoin! ⚒️

Catch the full episode here ⬇️
https://builtonbitcoin.beehiiv.com/p/e108-creating-essential-tools-bitcoin-developers-max-efremov-hiro-systems

Building is hard 💻

With the Hiro Platform, it’s about to get easier.

Join the waitlist → https://www.hiro.so/321

We have plenty of opportunities available within the ecosystem! 🚀

Find full-time positions, bounties, grants, and other opportunities to earn while contributing to the Stacks Ecosystem. 🤝

Check the link below ⬇️
https://stx.is/Apply-Jobs-Telegram

An introduction to the Uniqueness of the .btc Bitcoin Name System
As of Feb 2023 there have been 223,000 BNS names registered with about 19,000 new registrations each week. BNS is not only the longest running blockchain name project but also the largest non-financial use of Bitcoin in the blockchain’s history.

Watch the full video 👇

The sBTC - trustless use of native Bitcoin in Applications - Roadmap 🚀
The sBTC Working Group’s mission is to expand the Bitcoin economy. Providing a solution wherein Bitcoiners can participate in native DeFi (and other) apps in a decentralized way is a major step toward activating that economy.

sBTC enables these applications via smart contracts that effectively write to Bitcoin, unlocking $450B+ of capital for productive use.

sBTC is powered by Stacks, with years of distributed systems R&D to expand Bitcoin utility.

View the full roadmap 👇

Interested in learning more about Clarity? 🤔

Go to Clarity Universe -- the hub for all things related to learning Clarity, the most expressive and secure language for writing smart contracts secured by Bitcoin. Find courses, key resources, and job opportunities. 🚀

Register below 👇
https://stx.is/Register-ClarityCamp-LinkedIN

ICYDK: What are Bitcoin Ordinals?

Here's a great resource from Cointelegraph breaking down the basics!

Learn how Ordinals work, the critical differences between Ordinals and traditional NFTs, and how you can mint, buy, trade, and sell it.

Read the full article below:
https://buff.ly/3J6zwIy

🚨 Breaking: Stacks / Bitcoin decentralized exchange Alex has raised $2.5 million in a strategic round from investors including Trust Machines and Gossamer Capital.

“There are more eyes watching Bitcoin right now than any other blockchain because of what is happening with Bitcoin NFTs and the excitement around Bitcoin’s use case potential,” Muneeb Ali, Co-Creator Stacks

Read more 👇

The sBTC Roadmap is here 🗺️

Divided into three phases ⤵️
🌟 Q1 to Q2 2023 - Laying of foundation
🌟 Q3 to Q4 2023 - A first-class user experience
🌟 2024 onwards - Scalability

Read the full blog post below👇
https://www.bitcoinwrites.com/p/growing-bitcoin-economy-road-sbtc"