🚨 Stacks Community Call Playlist 🚨

Don't have the time to watch the Stacks Community call live? 👀
Be sure to follow the Stacks Community call playlist where you can catch up on the monthly community calls whenever you like 🙏

Updates from ⤵️
Umbrel App Store, Leos, Stacks Degens, Whitelabel, Boom, Fungible Systems, Friedger Muffke, Ileana Malacrino, Robin, Clarity Innovation Lab, MattySTX, Governance Lab, Local Indonesian Community, Local Austin Community & Local Australian Community.

⏰ Timestamps for specific Residents, Grants and Chapters included

👇 Watch June's recording here 👇

📚 Stacks Improvement Proposal (SIP) Community Call 📚
The Stacks community should always be involved in improving the Stacks blockchain ✊

Every week, you are able to join the SIP community calls live.
📆 When: Check the Stacks Foundation Twitter channel for more information

🤔 What is a SIP?
A Stacks Improvement Proposal (SIP) is a design document that provides information to the greater Stacks ecosystem's participants concerning the design of the Stacks blockchain and its ongoing operation. Each SIP document contains all of the information needed to propose a non-trivial change to the way in which the Stacks blockchain operates.

Listen to the brilliant Stacks community minds discussing the SIPs 🧠👇

Tutorials for install your Stacks web & mobile wallet 📺
Educating new people coming to Stacks is essential to create a demand for the apps that are being build on Stacks secured by Bitcoin ✊

How to install & use a Stacks web wallet
This video provides an introduction to crypto wallets. It covers how crypto wallets works, why you should have your own crypto wallet, and how to use one effectively ⛓ Watch video 👈

How to setup your Stacks mobile wallet & start earning Bitcoin
This video will go over the process of creating a Stacks mobile wallet, and locking up $STX to start Stacking ⛓ Watch video 👈

Where should you develop your Blockchain app? 🤔
As a blockchain developer, one of the most important decisions you’ll make is which ecosystem to build in. Do you join the largest community of Web3 developers in Ethereum? Do you take advantage of Solana’s fast transactions? Do you build on Bitcoin, the most secure and battle-tested blockchain?

Read more about the differences & options on Hiro's website 👇

🔥 The latest Xverse version is now released 🔥

What's new:

1. Full support for BNS decentralized identity. (.btc and .id usernames) Users can now see their BNS usernames in the wallet app for each account and send tokens and NFTs to BNS usernames instead of addresses.

2. You can now specify a send amount in fiat.
3. Apps can now request Xverse wallet to sign arbitrary messages.
4. We've also added an option to defer seed phrase backup during new wallet setup for faster onboarding.

Okcoin's Stacks recap - June 2022 edition 📆
Here’s OKcoin's monthly recap of what’s going on and being built in the Stacks ecosystem 🔍

⭐️ Stacks went to Bitcoin Unleashed to discuss our support for Bitcoin Odyssey
⭐️ Trust Machines raised $150 million
⭐️ GameFi, NFTs, and metaverse projects keep flourishing on Stacks 🚀

Read the full recap here 👇

Hey everyone, here are all known notable events, features/changes, and updates from the month of June 2022 👋

1️⃣ STX/MIA and STX/NYC trading pair went live on block height 62,876.

2️⃣ Co-Farm with ALEX went live! Read the full details on Co-Farm HERE

3️⃣ 2nd Lockdrop snapshot taken!

4️⃣ Borrow & Lend has just gone live on ALEX! The very first Borrow & Lend will CRP enabled! Read full details HERE

5️⃣ ALEX Lottery has gone live on Block 66,551! Read the full detail HERE

👇 Some press & media shoutouts from June! 👇

1️⃣ Realvision

2️⃣ Spotify [ALEX AND THE FUTURE OF FINANCE]

3️⃣ XVerse tutorial with ALEX
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Check out the Gov Update: HERE

ICYMI: Blockchain.com adds wallet support for $STX
Blockchain.com, the world’s most popular crypto wallet, has added Wallet support for $STX. With STX support already available on Blockchain.com’s Exchange, users will be able to toggle between the Wallet and Exchange to buy, sell, and earn $STX rewards 🚀

👇 Link to article 👇

Stacks Foundation Jumpstarts New Program Providing Financial Relief for Women in Afghanistan
The Stacks Foundation has created an innovative social good program that leverages yield from cryptocurrency, specifically $STX, to fund thousands of women in Afghanistan seeking financial relief. The program is in partnership with the Stacks Foundation, Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organization, and OpenGrants ❤️

Read the full article here 👇

The Weekly Stack: Gamma NFT Updates 📰
Our friends are Gamma.io are releasing a weekly newsletter covering everything surrounding NFT events & upcoming mints 🚀

This week:
⭐️ Meet the Creators
⭐️ NFTNYC Recap
⭐️ Gamma Updates

Read last week's newsletter & subscribe here 👈

Stacks Community Events: June Recap 📆
It has been incredible seeing so many Stacks community members attending real life and virtual events 🚀 June has been a whirlwind of exciting conferences, hackathons, workshops and meetups. Web3Week, Consensus 2022, NFTNYC, Miami for Everyone, Dev Workshops etc. 🤯

Check out what we’ve been up to and find out how you can join us at future events 👇

Bringing Speed to the Stacks Blockchain ⛓
In this video, Aaron Blankstein, Staff Software Engineer at Hiro, explains hyperchains, a layer-2 scaling solution for the Stacks blockchain. Hyperchains will offer the ability to process high throughput and low latency workloads, enabling developers to build fast and reliable experiences on Stacks 🚀

Watch here 👇

ICYMI: You're still part of the #1 Web3b project on Bitcoin 👀
📈 STX Addresses from 417K (Q1-2022) to 444,490 (Q2-2022)
📈 Smart Contracts built from (Q1-2022) 3,235 to 5,127 (Q2-2022)
📈 Entities building on Stacks from 45 to 72
📈 TVL 478M $STX to 524M $STX

The Stacks community has proven the incredible potential of smart contracts for Bitcoin, from DeFi to NFTs, city coins to philanthropic efforts, portable identity to new infrastructure ✊

Read the Cointelegraph article 👇

The number one Stacks Bitcoin blogging platform is announcing their update 🚀
Sigle, the Decentralised and open-source Web 3.0 writing platform, has announced a major update ❤️

The update involves:
✍️ writers on Sigle will be able to monitor their growth and better understand their community.
🌐 Ceramic protocol Stacks Grant
👁 Changelog Sigle 1.3
⭐️ More!

Read the full Sigle article here 👇

Start becoming a Stacks Contributor & Builder 👷
Let's accelerate the growth of the Stacks community 🚀

Ever thought about making a move to crypto?
Make yourself visible for the Stacks projects and join the conversation 🗣

Search for jobs & join the talent pool 👇

Gamma updates the NFT Creator Tool 🚀
New features are introduced to make it easier for artists and creators to start their new NFT project on Stacks!

⭐️ Continuous collections
⭐️ Managing Smart Contracts
⭐️ Customized sale framework
⭐️ Much more!

Read the full thread on what's updated here 👇

📺 Miner Incentives for Bitcoin 📺
The Bitcoin Miner incentives are a very important topic ☝️
Bitcoin runs on this newly minted coins that are coming and not the transaction fees, and that's the biggest criticism that gets brought up.

👇 Watch Muneeb explain this concept 👇

Stacking on Mobile with Xverse 🚀
Stacking is a novel technique that rewards STX token holders for participating in the Proof of Transfer consensus process on the Stacks blockchain (PoX).

Earning up to 10% annual Bitcoin yield by doing so 📈

Read through the full tutorial & share it with your non-stacking friends 👈

Rather share the video version, you can do so here 👈

The Stacks Bitcoin connection explained by a Clarity developer 👁
🤔 Why does Stacks make the critique on Bitcoin's energy consumption less valid?
🤔 How is Stacks connected to Bitcoin?
🤔 Why does me stacking $STX help the Stacks blockchain?

Stacks Foundation Developer Advocate Kenny Rogers perfectly answers these questions for you 🚀

👇 Watch the full video here 👇