✅ Bear markets filter out short term people.
✅ People who remain are long-term purist.

🤝 Winters aren’t bad for Crypto
🏗 Building through a bear market

📺 Watch the full webinar with @muneeb & @br_ttany on smart crypto moves in a bear market here 👈

🚀 Introducing: The Grants Program 🚀

The Grants Program funds builders and developers who are creating developer tools, community resources, applications, and research that grow the Stacks Ecosystem and serve the Stacks community.

You can now apply via the Grants Dashboard. Will you be the next Stacks builder funded by the Grants program? 👀

Watch the Grants & Grants Dashboard introduction video here 👈

🔊 Crypto Internet Show 🔊

📅 May 11th, 5 pm EST 📅

Bitcoin DeFi with Okcoin and Hiro Systems 🚀

⭐️ Two new US fiat onramps live with Hiro
⭐️ Okcoin will be launching soon 👀

👉 Set a reminder here 👈

Together with Host Kyle Ellicott, Jason Lau (Okcoin)
Alex Miller (Hiro) Muneeb Ali (Stacks) Patrick Stanley (CityCoins) 🗣

Bitcoin's bit to become the 'one chain to rule them all' ✊

Stacks plays a crucial role in expanding use cases for Bitcoin. Its open source network allows custom smart contracts to be built on Bitcoin, enabling developers to use the Bitcoin blockchain to create dApps. 🚀

Read the full article from TechCrunch, the largest online tech newspaper, on Bitcoin & Stacks here 👈

⏰ Starting in 4 hours ⏰

🚀 Jason Klau on Okcoin's upcoming launch
📈 Alex Miller on Hiro Systems's Fiat onramp

Together with regular guests Muneeb Ali, Patrick Stanley & host Kyle Ellicott 🔊

👉 Set reminder 👈

New Stacker Chats Live

Watch Muneeb Ali & Gina Abrams discuss the incredible potential of Stacks 🚀 and how to survive a bear market 🐻

Watch the video here 👈
Listen to the audio version on your favourite podcast app here 👈

🚨 Big Announcement: Orbit Chain🚨

There’s no doubt it’s a multi-chain world 🤝⛓

The Stacks network is taking another step in connecting with other top chains by way of the Orbit Bridge. 🚀

Upon community acceptance and launch of the Stacks 2.1 upgrade, users can expect to bridge assets in and out of STX from 11 well-known projects such as Ethereum, Avalance, Fantom, Celo, BNB, Polygon, Orbit, Klaytn, HECO, Icon, OEC, and xDAI.

👇 Read more here 👇

🌐 Introducing: Web 3 Week 🌐
Join the next free Stacks Web3Week summit 🚀

📅 June 1: Its NFT - Investing & Trading Summit for NFTs
📅 June 2: Gamefi & Metaverse - Building a Metaverse secured by Bitcoin
📅 June 3: Unmutable: The flagship event for artists, leaders, and technologists working where musicˣblockchain.

Register for free here 👈

State of the Network: Stacks ⤵️

🥇 Named the #1 Project on #Bitcoin
🔒 Crossed 400K wallet addresses
🤝 Passed 1 million $STX transactions
📥 200K+ NFTs minted on $STX

Thanks to the amazing Stacks community ❤️

👇 Full Q1 Recap here 👇

📰 The CityCoiner: Updates around CityCoins 📰

⭐️ Covering all things CityCoins
Stay in the loop, sign up to our newsletter and follow all things CityCoins.

1️⃣ Podcasts
2️⃣ Videos
3️⃣ Blogs

👉 Subscribe here 👈

📺 Updating Bitcoin Vs Stacks 📺

Decentralization is the future 🚀
But without a single owner or centralized power...

🤔 Who suggests updates of a blockchain?
🤔 How do they get approved?

Listen to Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali & Gina Abrams discuss the new Bitcoin update and how this process differs from Stacks' blockchain. 🗣

👇 Watch here 👇

ALEX covered by large news channel Kitco News

Bitcoin's utility just expanded 🏗
The Stacks ecosystem being covered by the large media 📺

Watch Chiente Hsu from ALEX here 👈

ICYMI: Bitcoin NFT Marketplace announces new brand alignment with release of social hub 🔥

The Digital Identity evolution 🚀
Core to this evolution is nonfungible tokens (NFTs)

The only question left unanswered with this powerful application is, "where will one's social identity, the one centered around NFTS, exist?" Gamma.io, also known as Gamma, aims to provide that answer as a hub for one's metaverse identity.

Read the full Cointelegraph article 👈

How Stacks builders are bringing more liquidity to the ecosystem 🚀👀

Megapont, Theopetra, Ryder and many more have their own unique ways to bring in more liquidity to the ecosystem. Want to know how?

The May 18th 5 pm EST Stacks Twitter Spaces session will be a discussion on 'How Builders are bringing more Liquidity into their Ecosystems'.

👇 Set a reminder here 👇

🌐 WEB3WEEK: Virtual Summit 🌐
The list of WEB3 pioneers speaking at #web3week is starting to grow with many more to come 🚀

🖼 ItsNFT
Andrew Wang, Alemsah Ozturk, Vinnie Hager, Toy Boogers, Storm, and many more

🎮 GameFi & Metaverse
First sneak peek: Neal Stephenson

🔊 Unmuteable
Roneil Rumburg, M. Shadows, Jillian Rothman, Chemical X, Hill Harper, Darya Pourshasb, and many more


👇 Register here 👇

🏕 MiamiCoin Web3 Developer Camp 🏕

A free 5-week Clarity smart contract development course. Learn to build with Web3 to unlock your city and your future. Why join the camp?

1️⃣ Build for your city
2️⃣ Raise your earning potential
3️⃣ Become future proof

👇 Read more here 👇

🚨 Stacks 🤝 Injective 🚨

Breaking: $STX can now be traded with leverage on a fully decentralized order book via Injective Labs 🚀

$STX is now more accessible in capital markets & traders have more liquidity & options ✊

👇 More info available 👇

[Major Announcement] 🎉
The ALEX journey begins several months back and now we are heading to a new age of Bitcoin DeFi. 👑

Fellow Alexians, this is just the beginning of an exciting DeFi journey that will blow your mind. Why Bitcoin again you ask? Because Bitcoin is the ultimate layer of money, and Stacks makes Bitcoin programmable. 👩‍💻

ALEX1 has proven Bitcoin can be a productive asset.

Introducing ALEX2: Building the scalability and user experience necessary to realize the Bitcoin economy. 🚀

Read the full Roadmap 👉
https://bit.ly/ALEX2

Tweet: https://twitter.com/alexgoBtc/status/1526703139122040834

ALEX 🚀 🌕

The Weekly Stacks: NFTs on Stacks
ICYMI: Gamma released their newsletter 🚀

⭐️ Supporting New and Upcoming Artists
⭐️ Releasing a Collection on Gamma
⭐️ Exciting Drops
⭐️ And more!

👇 Read the full version here 👇

What Does Lightning’s Taro Proposal Mean for Stacks?
Last month, Lightning announced Taro, a proposed Bitcoin upgrade that allows for the representation of assets on Bitcoin.

⭐️ Highlight: A richer state representation on Bitcoin would be great for Stacks. Clarity, the smart contract programming language for Stacks, can read Bitcoin state. So in a world where Taro is implemented, you can imagine Clarity having more functions to allow Stacks to read and validate that state, giving us a deeper integration with those assets.


👇 Read more here 👇