Have you been tuning into Stack's Crypto Internet Show "How to Build on Bitcoin" series on Twitter Spaces? If you missed it check this recap by Shannon Voight - it has the takeaways from some of the best sessions covering #DeFionBitcoin and featuring valuable insight from Arkadiko Finance.

https://www.hiro.so/blog/breaking-down-defi-on-bitcoin

Check this conversation between Anthony Pompliano and Patrick Stanley as they talk about CityCoins and its flagship city $MIAMI. In this session, you'll learn what CityCoins is and how it allows you to support your favorite cities while earning yield in Bitcoin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG3Rik84bVA

Hiro partnered with Least Authority to conduct a security audit of the Hiro Stacks Web Wallet. Find the key findings of the results here and the changes made to remedy them.

And just like that Boomboxes went live. 💥

Boomboxes let you create reward-bearing NFTs through delegated STX stacking. The (transferrable) NFT acts as a claim certificate towards its respective % of the total stacking rewards for that pool. Whoever holds the NFT at the time of payout receives the reward.

https://twitter.com/boom_wallet/status/1412469116691128324

For tomorrow's Stacking Meetup, we will touch base with the most popular pools, such as Friedger Pool, Planbetter, and Xverse. Time to go over their progress and see their total TVL since launch, the total number of participating addresses, and future updates that we can expect.

Mark your calendars here: https://evt.to/huaeusgw

Kaitlin Pike joins Hiro Systems PBC as VP of Marketing. Kaitlin previously led Brand and Creative Marketing at 4x unicorn startup Amplitude, directed Brand Marketing at GitHub, and founded the Developer Marketing Department at Stack Overflow.

https://www.hiro.so/blog/kaitlin-pike-joins-hiro-pbc-as-vp-of-marketing

Stacks Foundation is leading the way in transparency as they share their recap from the Q2 Stacks Foundation Board Meeting. In this report, you'll see a complete reflection from last quarter, such as their financials, performance against objectives & key results, and an overall breakdown of ecosystem progress.

https://stacks.org/board-meeting-recap-q2-2021

Stacks just got listed in Staking Rewards. Landing at its top 40 with $ 346 Million USD in locked value. Check out the integration here: https://twitter.com/StakingRewards/status/1413143384370290692

💥 Risidio is back with another NFT giveaway! This time in collaboration Edge of NFT and our favorite artist, Chemical X.

NFT Piece: This collab drop is giving away 25 limited edition #NFTs to celebrate the launch of the world's first #Bitcoin NFT collection, This Is Number One.
Drop Date: July 6th - July 18th
Risidio's Note: Tell us your number one as inspired by Chemical X’s project, This Is Number One.

Participate in the drop now:
✔️Like the post and tag 2 friends
✔️Follow Risidio
✔️Complete your entries via the link below

https://gleam.io/KLKN6/this-is-1-nft-giveaway

Planbetter will soon be releasing a dashboard that details your Stacking data. 🚀

https://twitter.com/planbetter_/status/1413189524625186823

Xverse just released a major update 🛠 v0.5.2 is live.

• New UI/UX
• NFTs support

https://twitter.com/secretkeylabs/status/1413187489817321472

Clarinet was added to MacHomebrew yesterday: brew install clarinet. 💻

https://twitter.com/marvinjanssen/status/1413184343753691141?s=21

Did you know that Hiro's UX Team is the one maintaining our Stacks Wallet to provide a safe and reliable way to manage our STX Holdings. They also make it easier to reference our transaction with the Stacks Explorer.

Learn more about the Hiro UX Team in their June recap, the numerous UX improvements they shipped, their internal team hackathon, and upcoming new features for Q3.

https://www.hiro.so/blog/hiro-ux-team-june-2021-recap

💥 Cara Delevingne’s Bitcoin NFT “Mine”: the first celebrity NFT art on Bitcoin through Stacks was sold for 18000 STX or 24,480 USD.

💡 Fun fact:
✅ The cost to mint & transfer “Mine” was just 0.0007 STX or $0.001
✅ It re-uses energy from Bitcoin's PoW.

Check the transaction here.
Join Risidio's community here.
https://thisisnumberone.com/

🔥Dan Held dropped another video on STX. This time it is a deep dive on Stacks, Bitcoin DeFi projects in the ecosystem, PoX, and Stacking process.

https://twitter.com/danheld/status/1414194013331206149

Hiro's Developer Team is killing it!🔥 Check this new series that they introduced: Hiro Backstage: Infrastructure Series - In this series, they took a deep dive on how they designed infrastructure and deployments at Hiro to meet demands and fluid plans to better support the recently announced Hiro Platform. As a bonus, the DevOps team also gave some tips and tricks about best practices in DevSecOps.

https://www.hiro.so/blog/hiro-backstage-infrastructure-series-introduction

Just in: Stacks Surges 12% Overnight While Bitcoin Stagnates. Read more about this article from Decrypt 👇

https://decrypt.co/75695/stacks-surges-12-overnight-while-bitcoin-stagnates

Thomas Osmonson, the creator of Stacking.club just released a new update! We can now check the data for all stacking cycles. 🥮

Time to go in-depth on these metrics!
https://twitter.com/aulneau_/status/1414268318530379781

It's been a year since the Stacks Foundation came to life. As one of the key entities in the ecosystem, it is essential for the Foundation to articulate what others, especially the community and ecosystem entities, can expect from them. This blog post highlights the rationale behind what they focus on and why while using concrete use cases.

Let's take a deep dive into the team's culture, vision, and how they developed a set of values and a functional approach to support the Stacks Ecosystem.
https://stacks.org/stacks-foundation-focus

👀Sneak peek of the new mining monitor from Daemon Technologies. ⛏

https://twitter.com/STXDaemon/status/1414823103184596996