Get insights from industry leaders and excellent Builders in the Stacks Ecosystem! Join Bitcoin Unleashed: Builders Edition! 🏗️

ℹ️ A premier virtual event bringing together founders and developers for all things building on Bitcoin.

Here's a sneak peek of the speakers we'll have at the event! 👀

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https://bitcoinunleashed.org/builders

How do you choose the right Smart Contract Language? 🤔

Let's figure it out with an eclectic bunch of builders to talk about the pros and cons of their respective ecosystems—and whether they might one day unseat Solidity. 🌐

Join Bitcoin Unleashed: Builders Edition!🚀

Hear from Francesco Kadena, CEO of Kadena, Gina Abrams, Chief of Staff of Trust Machines, Maxim Efremov, Developer Evangelist at Hiro, and Sami Kassab, Research Analyst at Messari 👥

Register here 👇
https://bitcoinunleashed.org/builders

Curious to know what continuous stacking is? What projects can you build, and how are existing infrastructure and wallet providers plan to support users and builders? 💭

Come and join Bitcoin Unleashed: Builders Edition to learn more! 💥

We'll have a discussion on this topic with Alex Chizhik of Okcoin, Dan Held of Trust Machines, Ken Liao of Xverse, and Tycho Onnasch of Zest Protocol 🔓

Get your passes today ⏬
https://bitcoinunleashed.org/builders

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Check out what all the amazing Stacks community builders have been building 🏗

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At Bitcoin Unleashed: Builders Edition, we'll explore new frontiers on making NFTs more than digital collectibles! 🖼️

We've got an exciting panel that consists of Brian Laughlan of Satoshibles, Jamil Dhanani of Gamma.io, Jessica Greenwalt of Unum, Louise Ivan of Ryder, and Mark McKenzie of Megapont 👥

You don't want to miss this! Tune in tomorrow ☄️


There's still time, sign-up below 🔽
https://bitcoinunleashed.org/builders

Bitcoin Unleashed: Builders Edition Starting NOW!
We're live with the 1-day Stacks builders event 🚀

Kicking things off with Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali talking about the new exciting update: Stacks 2.1 🌐

Come join us 👈
See schedule 👈

🚨 1 more day to vote 🚨

Support over friends over at frens as they're up for a Smoothie Award! 🏆

ℹ️ They're the first growth platform made just for web3 communities! Helping everyone turn on the community on day one and engage the network effect to grow your community quickly. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑👭

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In the past year, DeFi has exploded in popularity. Developers are expanding its possibilities to new use cases and ecosystems, including bringing DeFi to the original blockchain itself: Bitcoin. 📈

Let's dive deeply into DeFi on Bitcoin; learn the challenges it faces and how Stacks help address them. 🔑

Read the full article below ⬇️
https://www.hiro.so/blog/bitcoin-economy-the-challenges-of-bitcoin-defi

We've all heard the buzz for Stacks 2.1 -- an exciting major network upgrade for the Stacks Blockchain ⚡

And the developers might be wondering how it will affect their experience and Hiro developer tooling. 🤔

Hiro got us covered! 🧡

They created a guide, and you check it out here 🔽
https://www.hiro.so/blog/a-developers-guide-to-stacks-2-1

📺 Watch Back: Bitcoin Unleashed: Builders 📺

Muneeb Ali (Stacks Founder), Dan Held, Brittany Laughlin, Trevor Owen, Hadan Esperidiao (ALEX Lab), Tycho Onnasch (Zest Protocol), Ken Liao (Xverse), Mark Mckenzie (Megapont Founder) and many more amazing builders discussed Stacks growth during last week's event 🚀

Watch back all talks on YouTube (timestamps available in the comments) 👇

Tune in on our monthly webinar as we tackle Regenerative Finance 💱

We'll talk to builders and advocates across blockchain communities, all working towards a better future on blockchain. ⚒️

🗓️ October 18
🕰️ 11:00 AM PT
📍 Hopin

We'll hear from:
⚬ Brittany Laughlin, Executive Director, Stacks Foundation
⚬ Kyle Ellicott, Partner, Stacks Ventures
⚬ Kevin Owocki, Founder, Gitcoin
⚬ Jeanne Bloch, Seed Gardener, DEB for innovative Value Flow

Register below 👇
https://hopin.com/events/making-sure-crypto-really-does-save-the-world-a-conversation-on-refi

🔥Introducing: STXDX & its token $XDX

STXDX (Stacks-DEX) is the first order book DEX built on Bitcoin via Stacks.

STXDX will be powered by $XDX token. ALEX & atALEX holders will be airdropped $XDX and participate in revenue share subject to governance.

Read more⬇️
https://medium.com/alexgobtc/introducing-stxdx-and-its-token-xdx-3f1c864ad1ca

Zesty Announcement 📢🍊

After months of development, Zest Protocol is soon to be ready for the world. Participate in our Official Testnet on Oct 20th to be an OG.

Learn more by:

✅Follow @ZestProtocol on Twitter + RT this
✅Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/dvHY4ERatv

We'd like to congratulate Unbanked 🎉

They recently won the Start Engine pitch competition and $25,000 from Kevin O'Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful 🏆

Unbanked is a global fintech solution built on blockchain, and they support our network enabling Stacks holders to use $STX in real-time while also earning 8 to 10% bitcoin yield on their balance by Stacking! 🌐

Check out their pitch here 📺
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD7Rz3UYAhA&t=2278s

Hey everyone, it’s time for Zesty Giveaway📢🍊

To juice things up for the coming Testnet, we are giving away a total of $1,000 in $BTC + $STX to 50 winners!

Do this to win:

✅Complete this👉 https://bit.ly/3TiwEMo
✅Follow @ZestProtocol + RT this tweet ( https://twitter.com/zestprotocol/status/1580898717959303168?s=46&t=Tbmt_n13H4L-YyUb36aMEA ) + Join Discord
✅Tag 3 friends on Twitter on that tweet

Did you know that Second Cohort applications are now open for the pre-accelerator?

ℹ️ A 2-month step-by-step Bootcamp for startups with one-on-one mentorship offering everything founders need to build their team and solid Web3 startup core to get fast-tracked to Stacks Ventures for growth and raising funds.

What You Get ⏬
✨ Mentorship
✨ Community
✨ Knowledge
✨ Workshops

Application Deadline: Nov 9th, 2022!

We're building the best startup community in the crypto space, join us and accelerate your success! 🚀

Apply here 👇
https://web3startuplab.io/

Here's another Builder Spotlight with BlockSurvey ☄️

We sat down with Wilson Bright, the co-founder of BlockSurvey, to learn more about their mission, project, and so much more! 💬

They provide users with a stack of tools and audiences for data collection with ownership, privacy, and security at an affordable cost. 🔏


Read the full feature below 🔻
https://stacks.org/spotlight-blocksurvey

ICYMI: Codeacademy just launched a free and beginner-friendly course in partner with the Stacks Foundation! 📚

Explore the tech behind Web3, Metaverse, and cryptocurrency with their new intro course and learn about 📙

⭐ Web2 and Web3 architecture differences
⭐ Decentralization's pros and cons
⭐ What smart contracts are, their uses, and the programming languages behind them
⭐ Metaverse and how to design your own -- and more!

Check it out below 👇
https://bit.ly/3LEME8H

🚨 Live in 10 minutes: ReFi 🚨
There needs to be a holistic approach to sustainability in the blockchain industry. And, finally, the focus seems to be converging on that cross chain collaboration for bolstering ReFi. We talk to builders and advocates across blockchain communities all working towards a better future on

Join the conversation
Join Host: Kyle Ellicott (@Kyleellicott). Panelists: Brittany Laughlin (@br_ttany), Kevin Owocki (@owocki), Jeanne Bloch (@JeanneBloch) talking about ReFi

👇 Join live here 👇

🚨 Priorities from the 2022 Ecosystem Offsite
On September 19, 2022 the Stacks Foundation held the first Stacks Offsite with builders from the ecosystem to talk through technical priorities, share opportunities, and discuss the known challenges within the roadmap. The goal was to bring together a diverse group of builders to outline common priorities, and build working groups and a public roadmap to share with the community.

As a community, we identified three priorities:
⭐️ Speed and Scalability Improvements
⭐️ Bitcoin Write
⭐️ Bitcoin NFTs

Read more about the results 👇