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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 👇
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🚨 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 👇
🚨 Stacks Grants Program Approved Funding Requests - Cohort 18 (Part I/2)
11 Grant funding requests have been approved by the Stacks Grants committee. The first 5 Grants are displayed below. Be sure to comment & star your favourite Grants to show support for future initiatives.

⭐️ Trajan creates crypto endorsements to build a comprehensive reputation of merit, which becomes a decentralized identity that generates crypto assets. More here 👈
⭐️ Metastackdata.com proudly presents the first legally compliant Stacking pool with Lightning payouts. For the first time, Stackers will be able to stack STX and earn BTC at zero-commission with the lowest possible BTC tx fees. More here 👈
⭐️ Creating an “Advanced mobile games toolset for F2P and P2E merger” will create a bridge between Free to Play Web 2.0 gaming and Play to Earn Web3 gaming allowing non-crypto game dev studios and publishers to easily implement Stacks blockchain to their games. More here 👈
⭐️ Stacks Commerce (STX-C) is a smart contract system enabling independent buyers, sellers & value add parties to contribute & be rewarded for the exchange of goods & services. More here 👈
⭐️ This project aims to make the WalletConnect protocol compatible with Stacks apps and wallets. More here 👈


Watch the full workflow of all cohort Grant submissions on the GitHub Repo. Add the GitHub page to your Watchlist & Star the page to get continuous updates on what's going on.
🚨 Stacks Grants Program Approved Funding Requests - Cohort 18 (Part 2/2)
11 Grant funding requests are approved by the Stacks Grants committee. The last 6 accepted funding requests are displayed below. Be sure to comment & star your favourite Grants to show support for future initiatives.

⭐️  This grant proposal aims to standardize & improve a cross-collections staking experience so that teams can deploy flexible, tested staking experiences. Read more 👈

⭐️ Unlocking native BTC funded DAOs will open up Stacks to the broader bitcoin holder market who could then use their BTC to fund DAOs, ranging from grant-giving DAOs and investment DAOs, to service DAOs and special purpose DAOs (like ConstitutionDAOs). Read more 👈

⭐️ The first stableswap DEX live on Stacks. A 'real yield' protocol design that rewards liquidity providers with the same tokens used in the underlying pools Read more 👈

⭐️ The project aims to build stxmempool.space - an open source implementation of mempool.space for Stacks. Read more 👈

⭐️ A standalone service continuously extracting all Bitcoin data into PostgreSQL db Read more 👈

⭐️ NFT2Loan will be launched, >1000 NFT holders have access to NFT loans. Read more 👈

Watch the full workflow of all cohort Grant submissions on the GitHub Repo. Add the GitHub page to your Watchlist & Star the page to get continuous updates on what's going on.
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👁‍🗨 Why You Should Be Excited About Stacks 2.1
Watch Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali, Stacks Foundation Executive Director Brittany Laughlin, and Trust Machine's Gina Abrams discuss everything that Stacks 2.1 will deliver 🗣

👇 Available here 👇
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🚨 Hiro Stackathon 🚨
It's time to sharpen your skills in this October's Stackathon. All month long we're bringing you remixable challenges to push your imagination to the limits—with opportunities to win great swag along the way.

Between now and october 31st, you’ll have the chance to create an application, or to remix, repackage, and recode existing projects, adding your personal touch to each one. Read more 👈
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Too much excitement in the #Stacks community 💜

⭐️ StacksDegens NFT customization
⭐️ ALEXLabBTC Bridge Testnet started
⭐️ web3startuplab's next cohort
⭐️ ZestProtocol launched testnet
⭐️ Hirosystems adding #Bitcoin support

We cannot choose what we're most excited about.
You? 🤔👇
💡 Spolight - Stacks: A Deeper Understanding (by @Jackbinswitch)
"Stacks has a lot of moving parts, and for the longest time I wasn't familiar with them. I am used to buying a coin, joining some project Discords/Telegrams, staring at charts, and degening to my heart's content. If words such as SIP and CAB don't currently hold any meaning for you, that's ok we are going to remedy that in this piece." Read more 👈
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🚨 The Future of Gaming Lies On-chain 🚨
With the likes of Stacks Degens and Stacks Force, the future of on-chain gaming with Stacks looks bright! But what are the use cases? How do we accelerate the growth of on-chain gaming? How can you become part of the on-chain game builders community? Join this exciting session to find out!

During this event, Stacks Degens Founder BowTiedSirJonathan.btc (@BowTiedSirJonat) will go over everything that you need to know about gaming on Stacks, secured by Bitcoin.

Jonathan will be joined by moderator Zero (@0ZeroAuthority), Wannabe.games Founder norbertredkie.btc (@NRedkie), and many more!

👇 Save your spot 👇
SIP (Stacks Improvement Proposal) Call 🔎
Let's discuss #Stacks 2.1 👇

💬 What: Steering Committee October Update
📅 When: Friday 28th October - 11am ET

📍Add the SIP call to your calendar 👈
Grow #Stacks Together 💜
Oh wow do we have a treat this week for all you hackers out there. The Hiro Monthly Developer Call is back in action! Tune in this Thursday, October 27th @ 16:00 UTC (12:00pm EST). ⚠️

This month we have a jam-packed agenda with a rockstar guest list. You’ll be hearing the latest and greatest Stacks ecosystem updates straight from the source. 🚰

📊 Brian Franklin will be coming on to spill the tea on results from Hiro’s latest Developer Survey! Come hear all the interesting takeaways from the Stacks dev community.

🔮 Maxim Efremov will be looking into the crystal ball, and giving us a sneak peek of upcoming Clarity upgrades with the launch of Stacks 2.1.

💰I know Thanksgiving isn’t until next month, but this month it’s Grantsgiving! Our friend from the Stacks Foundation, Will Corcoran, will be joining the meeting to give a rundown of the multitude of improvements to the Stacks Grants process.

🍊 For those who are still dealing with FOMO from missing all the festivities in Bitcoin Amsterdam, the Zest Protocol team will be on the call (fresh off their testnet launch!) to share a brief recap on all the happenings from Stacks’ Eurotrip.

Cannot wait to see all you diehard devs this week, and discuss the latest hot topics from around web3 🌎3️⃣

You can get all registered for the session here: https://hiro.so/calls
👤 Community Call: Next week 👤

11 new Grantees have been onboarded
Residents onboarding builders
Chapters introducing #Stacks locally

Let's recap what happened in October ⭐️

📅 Nov 3. 11AM (ET)
👇 Save a spot for the event 👇
ALEX: Pioneering Bitcoin DeFi
Non-custodial #Bitcoin on Stacks is the key to:

▶️ Billions Bitcoin capital flowing into Stacks
▶️ The ultimate use case for Bitcoin #DeFi
▶️ Bitcoin -> productive asset

Ethereum Bridge: ALEX is also building "Bridge", connecting USDC on Ethereum with xUSD on Stacks. Bridge is a wrapped bridge, with Tokensoft as the tech partner.

👇 Watch the full video 👇
⭐️ Stacks Startup Lab: Bootcamp
📆 The deadline for the Stacks Startup Lab bootcamp ➡️ November 5th
🚀 Jumpstart your Web3 startup with a supportive and fast growing Web3 community.

📈 Stacks Startup Lab Cohort 1
- Stacks Force launched 3 games
- BitFlow Finance launched their Beta
- Liquidium (formerly NFT2Loan) launched testnet
- Much more startups will launch soon

Are you the next builder that starts a company on Stacks 👀?
Help onboard the next generation of Stacks builders 👉 Share & Apply here 👈
🚨 State of #Stacks Q3 2022 🚨
ICYMI: Messari released their Q3 State of Stacks report 🚀

💡 Highlights:
📈 QoQ 60% growth in smart contract deployment
📈 Stackers holding for the long term
📈 2022 average Stacking yield of 9% in #Bitcoin

Read the full report by Messari 👈