🚨 Grant Cohort 19: Applications closing...

Just one week left until the Grant application process for Cohort 19 closes. If you want to apply for funding to help grow the Stacks ecosystem, do it now!

Checkout the Grants launchpad for more information 👇

📺 Why Stacks? A Robust Architecture for Building

Why not just Bitcoin? Why not just Ethereum? Why no Solana? What makes Stacks so great? 🤔

If you ever had one of the questions listed above, this video from Stacks Foundation developer advocate Kenny Rogers will provide you with the answers 👈

Stacks 2.1: Your Guide to Voting 🚀
With this upgrade, expect more efficient Bitcoin yield via Stacking, more robust bridges to other networks, more simplicity with how developers can link and trigger interactions between Stacks and Bitcoin, and helpful groundwork for Subnets - which will bring additional speed and scalability to the network once launched.

Voting
Voting will take place during Stacking rewards cycles 46 and 47, estimated to begin around November 10, 2022 and end around December 8, 2022.

Check out the full guide 👇

Stacks 2.1 Upgrade is Approaching — Enhanced Connection between Stacks & Bitcoin | Written by GM Chung

Just as the Ethereum ecosystem has grown through this year's the merge, various innovations & changes are taking place on Bitcoin as well. In particular, Stacks is injecting new utility into Bitcoin by introducing a smart contract layer without modifying Bitcoin.

Expected to be at the end of this year, the Stacks 2.1 upgrade is the biggest update since the launch of the Stacks 2.0 mainnet, and will provide the foundation for a stronger relationship between Stacks chain and Bitcoin chain.

In the article below, you can find the major changes and improvements the upcoming upgrade will bring and how it will affect.

https://medium.com/despread-global/stacks-2-1-upgrade-is-approaching-enhanced-connection-between-stacks-bitcoin-bc7e0aa37c67

https://twitter.com/gmchung94/status/1590601841297231872

The Stacks community delivers 👇🚀
✅ @MattySTX Tokenomics guide
✅ @ileanamalacrino @Themintery Cohort 2
✅ @StacksAdvoxDAO Cohort 1 launch
✅ @StacksATX Local Clarity cohort
👀 Much more!

Watch the full Stacks Community Update Call 👇

🚨 Grants Program funding application closing on Monday!

Do you want to add value to the Stacks community? We provide support for developers, designers, community leaders, and more through grants ⤵️

1️⃣ Read the GitHub repository
2️⃣ Apply for a Grant 👈

Grants Cohort 18 & 19 Update
The GitHub board shows you all projects currently active in the Program.
Remember: you can add the Launchpad to your watchlist by clicking on the 👁

View current Grant cohort 18 projects and cohort 19 applications 👈

🔔 Stacks 2.1 Review & Voting 🔔

Watch back all @Stacks Improvement Proposal calls on #Stacks 2.1 ⤵️

1️⃣ Codex reviewing Stacks 2.1
2️⃣ Hero Gamer voting walkthrough
3️⃣ Jude Nelson Stacks 2.1 Q&A

Here 👈

How to Vote?
1️⃣ Go to Website
2️⃣ Click Vote Now
3️⃣ Connect Wallet
4️⃣ Enter the STX amount
5️⃣ Pick Yes or No
6️⃣ Send TX
7️⃣ Claim badge

The Stacks Community helps you find your role in creating a user-owned internet 🚀 with free programs ready for you to join:

1️⃣ Learn to create smart contracts with Clarity Education Camp
2️⃣ Found your Startup with the Startup Lab
3️⃣ Scale & grow your startup with the Stacks Accelerator
4️⃣ Apply for funding to help grow Stacks
5️⃣ Apply for a job in the Stacks ecosystem

📅 This week's event calendar
👀 Starting in 1 hour: Join the Xverse team and the Stacks SIP Resident @Hero Gamer ⚡️ during the Stacks 2.1 Voting walkthrough here 👈

👀 Learn how to integrate NFTs into Web Apps with Stacks Degens Developer "The Deployer" here 👈

👀 How to create, grow and scale your startup with Trevor Owens, Albert Liang and Jake Blockchain here 👈

5 ways Stacks 2.1 will mobilize the Bitcoin economy
⭐️ Continuous Stacking Cycles
⭐️ Receive Stacking Rewards Using Any Bitcoin Address
⭐️ BTC <> STX Swaps
⭐️ Bridges to Other Chains
⭐️ Sending Assets to BTC Addresses

👇 Read the full Xverse article 👇

Moving forward from this week in crypto
(Gamma article An opinion piece by sarah.btc)

🏦 The role of centralized entities in decentralized territory
🔑 Ownership over your assets
⛓ NFTs onboard users to self-custody solutions
🔓 Security best practices

"Ownership in the land of decentralization and Web3.0 doesn’t mean buying and holding crypto. It means having exclusive and secure access to your assets that nobody — especially not a centralized custodian — can take away from you."

Hiro Systems: Release Roundup - October 2022
In October we shipped a number of updates across our products, including API v6, the ability to search by .btc name in the Explorer, a new re-architected VS Code extension, and our team continued to work toward code completion of Stacks 2.1. Let’s jump in. (full Hiro article)

✅ SIP (@Stacks Improvement Proposal) Call 🔎 with
@herogamer21btc

💬 What: Open Discussion
📅 When: TODAY - 11am ET (Starting in 1 hour)

📍Add the SIP call to your calendar
Join the conversation! Help improve #Stacks ✊💜

🚨 Stacks and the Stacks Ecosystem Post-FTX
Published by Stacks Foundation Team on November 21, 2022

"Given the latest market developments and our commitment to transparency, we’re providing an update on the status of the Stacks Foundation and indexing related responses from other organizations operating within the Stacks Ecosystem. We’re disappointed and frustrated by the latest events related to FTX and Alameda, but have not been directly impacted by the fallout or resulting liquidity issues. We hope that through collaboration, we can build a more trustworthy Web3 together."

Read the full article here 👇

Introducing: State of the Chain #1
Published by Babo on November 21, 2022

1️⃣ Introducing Stacks on Chain core features
2️⃣ Network Overview
3️⃣ Decentralized app catalogue

Read the first release here 👇

👁 Learn to implement NFTs into Web Apps

Stacks Degens developer "Deployer" will teach you how to implement an NFT into your Web App during this free workshop 🚀
Will you be the next Stacks Degens or Sigle in the Stacks ecosystem? 🤔

📆 When: November 30, 4PM (EST)
📍 Where: Add the event to your calendar

🚀 Stacks Foundation Grants Program Status

🙋‍♀️ 21 Applications in review for Cohort 19
🟠 7 completing initial deliverable
🟢 6 Completing milestone deliverable
✅ 1 completing final deliverable

View the full dashboard here 👇

🧐 What is Blockchain Naming System?
Published by Xverse on November 21, 2022

During the first week of November 2022, the surge in transaction volume for domain names with .btc reportedly shot up to 260%. Why?

BNS is short for Bitcoin Name Space or Blockchain Naming System, with .btc being a user-owned, blockchain-powered version of Web 2.0’s DNS.

Read the full article 👇

🗳 Reminder: Vote for Stacks 2.1
Every Stacks holder should vote for the new Stacks upgrade 🚀

Stacks 2.1
Stacks 2.1 brings stacking improvements, Smart Contract language improvements, better bridges, decentralized mining pools, Bitcoin native Assets. More on Stacks 2.1

Watch the tutorial video for voting here 👇

Developer Spotlight: Brice Dobry, Hiro
Brice Dobry is a Senior Software Engineer at Hiro Systems. Prior to joining the team at Hiro, Brice had no prior experience with Blockchains. Today, he's 1 year in with the team at Hiro and at the forefront of building on Stacks. In our discussion, he talks about how he got started and how you can too.

Read the full article 👇