Build a DEX with Stacks & Hackathon announcement
Pointer has partnered with Stacks to bring you a tutorial on building a decentralized exchange on Stacks. Bringing more Clarity developers to the Stacks ecosystem 🚀

Hackathon
Pointer will host their first Hackathon with Stacks! Check out the hackathon channels in Pointer's Discord to find a team (if you like!), and discuss ideas and progress! The hackathon will finish on 26th August 2022, one month after the tutorial is published. Judging by the Pointer team!

Prizes 🎉
The best project will receive the grand prize of $10,000 worth of STX
4 runners up will each receive $2,500 worth of STX

View the full Pointer Tutorial & Hackathon overview 👇

🚨 Stacks Newsletter: July 2022 🚨

State of the Network ⚡️
⭐️ STX Addresses 417K to 444,490
⭐️ Smart Contracts 3,235 to 5,127
⭐️ TVL 478M STX to 524M
⭐️ BTC Rewards 1127 BTC to 1770 BTC
⭐️ Entities 45 to 72

📈 Multiple new listings
📈 New Stacks NFT onboarding cohort
📈 New Stacks Clarity Smart Contracts Education cohort

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ALEX DeFi Announces Orderbook Whitelist 🏦
ALEX Orderbook inaugurates our scalability solution. It is the non-custodial, hybrid on-chain/off-chain order-matching engine for decentralized exchanges.

The Orderbook enables fast confirmation without sacrificing the security of trade settlement on Bitcoin.

The ALEX Orderbook Testnet is launched with the sole purpose of improving ALEX products through community feedback. This is the first time a hybrid orderbook protocol will be connected to the Stacks blockchain.
Read the full Article & Help improve ALEX 👇

Using Native Bitcoin in Stacks Apps via DLCs 📰🗣
DLC.Link is building infrastructure that will let Clarity app developers use native Bitcoin locked in escrow. The use of Discreet Log Contract technology unlocks Bitcoin liquidity without having to trust a single third-party.

Want to learn more about DLC.link & their amazing innovation on Stacks? Reach the full discussion with Aki Balogh, Founder/CEO of DLC.link here 👈

Stacks Twitter Spaces on DLC.Link today 🚨
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📺 The Stacks Community Call - July 2022 📺

You can watch back the July 2022 Stacks Community Call on YouTube where all Grantees, Residents and Chapters talk about their latest achievements & updates 💬

Set a reminder for the next Stacks Community Call 👈

👇 Watch the July Community Call video 👇

NFTs for Social Good: Built with NFT 🤝 Satoshibles ❤️

10 ETH of the Satoshibles mint proceeds were donated to a greater cause: The Built with Bitcoin Foundation - a fantastic organization dedicated to creating equitable opportunity by providing clean water, access to quality education, sustainable farming, and humanitarian support, all powered by Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

You can still support the Built with NFT greater cause by minting one of the NFTs hand drawn by students from Built With Bitcoin schools across Africa. Available here 👈

Read the full article here 👇

A Deep Dive Into Bitcoin NFTs with Xverse 👁
Since launching in January 2021, the Stacks ecosystem has been growing efforts to support Bitcoin NFTs. Decentralized marketplaces like Byzantion, Gamma, and HeyLayer offer a variety of services such as purchasing, selling and minting Bitcoin NFTs including music, collectibles, fine arts & photography.

Read the full Xverse NFTs on Bitcoin article 👇

🚨 Buy $STX directly via your mobile wallet: Xverse integration with Moonpay
Xverse, the most advanced web3 Bitcoin wallet, is thrilled to announce that users can now purchase Bitcoin (BTC) and STX, the native token of the Stacks blockchain, directly in the app 📲

This is possible thanks to integrations with MoonPay, a leading crypto payments firm that provides on-ramp services. 🙏


This is the first time STX will be available to users worldwide* through a mobile wallet, streamlining access to the Stacks ecosystem 🚀

Read the full article ⤵️

⛓ Clarinet Roadmap: Looking to the Future ⛓
Topic: A Deep Dive on Hiro's Developer Tools

When Hiro first envisioned Clarinet, they wanted to build a tool that was indispensable for developers, from writing the very first line of code all the way to smart contract deployment on mainnet. Over time, Clarinet has evolved as the Hiro team has rolled out new features, talked to developers, and adapted to the changing needs of the Stacks community.

This article covers the future of Clarinet 👇

Trust Machines Accelerating the Growth of the Bitcoin Economy 🚀

Trust Machines CEO & Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali sat down with Gina Abrams to discuss Dan Held joining Trust Machines & the future for Trust Machines with Stacks 🗣

Trust Machines
Trust Machine's objective is to establish the greatest ecosystem of Bitcoin applications and expand the Bitcoin economy. It was co-founded by Princeton computer scientists Dr. Muneeb Ali and Professor J.P. Singh.

Watch the latest Stacker Chats 👈

Bitcoin DeFi: Unpacking the Key Drivers Behind the Popularity of DeFi Technologies 🏦
Topic: A Deep Dive on Bitcoin DeFi

DeFi technologies enable permissionless transactions for anyone from anywhere in the world without regard to their ethnicity, social status, political affiliation, or any other factor. DeFi make many things possible, such as ⬇️

1️⃣ Transparent and Publicly Available Information
2️⃣ Self-Custody for Economic Autonomy and Independence
3️⃣ Creation of a Unified Global Market

Read the full deep dive on Decentralized Finance 👇

🚨 ICYMI: Newsletter - State of the Network 🚨
In case you missed it: Stacks Q1 to Q2 review 🚀

1️⃣ STX Addresses 417K to 444,490
2️⃣ Smart Contracts 3,235 to 5,127
3️⃣ TVL 478M STX to 524M
4️⃣ BTC Rewards 1127 BTC to 1770 BTC
5️⃣ Entities 45 to 72
6️⃣ Trading Pairs 38 to 49
7️⃣ Transactions crossed 1.5M from 1M
8️⃣ Three new SIPs got approved: SIP 016 Metadata for Tokens , SIP 018 Arbitrary messages, SIP 019 Notifications for Token Metadata Updates

Monthly updates
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ALEX Orderbook Testnet is open 👀
The ALEX Lab Foundation has launched the Orderbook Testnet. ALEX' goal is always to build together. With your test and feedback, they will create a better protocol.

Community members who participate in testing, provide feedback and help ALEX improve will be rewarded. Please see the guide below on how to join ALEX in this journey.

View the guide 👈
Get whitelisted here 👈

Twitter Spaces: Ryder Announcement 🗣
Join the Ryder team, together with many other Stacks community leaders today during the weekly Crypto Internet Show 🚀

Ryder announcing namespaces... 👀

Line-up
Host: Kyle Ellicott, @Kyleellicott
Muneeb Ali, Stacks and Trust Machines, @Muneeb
Patrick Stanley, CityCoins, @PatrickWStanley
Brittany Laughlin, Stacks Foundation, @br_ttany
Louise Ivan, Ryder, Stacks Foundation, @louiseivanvp
Friedger Müffke, Ryder, Friedger Pool, @fmdroid

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Builder Story - DLC: Startup ➡️ Accelerator ➡️ Grant ➡️ & beyond
DLC.Link is building infrastructure that will let Clarity app developers use native Bitcoin locked in escrow.

A DLC lets you use your Bitcoin without needing to transfer it elsewhere. The solution to using Bitcoin in other systems has been to send it over to a custodian - you can either bridge it to another protocol, but you then send it to that protocol to lock up/secure.

👇 Read the full story of DLC link 👇

Hyperchains - The next unlock for the Stacks Blockchain
Hiro delivered the core functionality aspects of a hyperchain so far and they made lots of progress to reach this point. There are several projects we are working on, including:

⭐️ API integration and Stacks.js support
⭐️ Performance benchmarking & improvements
⭐️ Abstraction layer for plug and play

Read the full Hiro Hyperchains article 👇

🚨 ICYMI: Purchasing Bitcoin & Stacks Directly in Xverse's Wallet
Xverse, the most advanced web3 Bitcoin wallet, is thrilled to announce that users can now purchase Bitcoin (BTC) and STX, the native token of the Stacks blockchain, directly in the app.

This is possible thanks to integrations with MoonPay, a leading crypto payments firm that provides on-ramp services 🚀

Read the full article here 👈

How to Buy Stacks NFTs Secured by Bitcoin on Mobile 🤔
Tired of explaining the process of minting, buying, selling and sending an NFT to your friends and family?

➡️ Send them this video instead 📺

👇 Watch the full video 👇

The Weekly Stack: Bear Market Survival Guide
Read up on Gamma's weekly newsletter 🗞

⭐️ Surviving the Bear Market
⭐️ Launching an NFT Project
⭐️ More 🚀

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Stacks Startup Lab: Pre-accelerator for Web3 Startups
The Stacks Web3 Founders Lab is a venture that includes a 2-month “bootcamp-style” pre-accelerator for Web3 startups. On Sunday, July 31st, 9 teams finally presented their learnings and work at the pre-accelerator's Demo Day.

This article introduces you to the 10 teams that presented their learnings and work and the demo day.

Apply for the next pre-accelerator cohort now 👈