The Stacks Foundation is working with InfStones to design an open source Stacking pool manager for businesses and individuals to create and manage their own Stacking pools.

Having recently launched their own Stacking service just a few cycles ago, InfStones is dedicated to making Stacks more accessible to both institutional and retail clients.

https://twitter.com/StacksOrg/status/1410662177346920455

📄 Bitcoin DeFi: "Stacks Explained" by Dan Held

This is a deep dive on Stacks by Dan Held, Head of Growth at Kraken. Check out his thorough analysis on What is Stacks?, Why Bitcoin?, How to get Bitcoin yield thru Stacks, its future, and more.

https://danheld.substack.com/p/bitcoin-defi-stacks-explained

Check this new open source project from Sigle that shows the latest data from the Stacks Blockchain. Stxsats shows the daily amount of transactions on the STX blockchain and STX unique addresses over time. Take a look at the graphs and if you like the project, spread the word! ⭐️ or contribute on Github or send some STX to stxstats.btc.

https://www.stxstats.co/

🛠 Hiro Systems PBC released a new update on the Clarity VScode extension that gives devs important features like autocompletion, syntax highlighting, and in-line error reporting.

Read the full announcement here: https://www.hiro.so/blog/clarity-vscode-extension

Have you been tuning into Stack's Crypto Internet Show "How to Build on Bitcoin" series on Twitter Spaces? If you missed it check this recap by Shannon Voight - it has the takeaways from some of the best sessions covering #DeFionBitcoin and featuring valuable insight from Arkadiko Finance.

https://www.hiro.so/blog/breaking-down-defi-on-bitcoin

Check this conversation between Anthony Pompliano and Patrick Stanley as they talk about CityCoins and its flagship city $MIAMI. In this session, you'll learn what CityCoins is and how it allows you to support your favorite cities while earning yield in Bitcoin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG3Rik84bVA

Hiro partnered with Least Authority to conduct a security audit of the Hiro Stacks Web Wallet. Find the key findings of the results here and the changes made to remedy them.

And just like that Boomboxes went live. 💥

Boomboxes let you create reward-bearing NFTs through delegated STX stacking. The (transferrable) NFT acts as a claim certificate towards its respective % of the total stacking rewards for that pool. Whoever holds the NFT at the time of payout receives the reward.

https://twitter.com/boom_wallet/status/1412469116691128324

For tomorrow's Stacking Meetup, we will touch base with the most popular pools, such as Friedger Pool, Planbetter, and Xverse. Time to go over their progress and see their total TVL since launch, the total number of participating addresses, and future updates that we can expect.

Mark your calendars here: https://evt.to/huaeusgw

Kaitlin Pike joins Hiro Systems PBC as VP of Marketing. Kaitlin previously led Brand and Creative Marketing at 4x unicorn startup Amplitude, directed Brand Marketing at GitHub, and founded the Developer Marketing Department at Stack Overflow.

https://www.hiro.so/blog/kaitlin-pike-joins-hiro-pbc-as-vp-of-marketing

Stacks Foundation is leading the way in transparency as they share their recap from the Q2 Stacks Foundation Board Meeting. In this report, you'll see a complete reflection from last quarter, such as their financials, performance against objectives & key results, and an overall breakdown of ecosystem progress.

https://stacks.org/board-meeting-recap-q2-2021

Stacks just got listed in Staking Rewards. Landing at its top 40 with $ 346 Million USD in locked value. Check out the integration here: https://twitter.com/StakingRewards/status/1413143384370290692

💥 Risidio is back with another NFT giveaway! This time in collaboration Edge of NFT and our favorite artist, Chemical X.

NFT Piece: This collab drop is giving away 25 limited edition #NFTs to celebrate the launch of the world's first #Bitcoin NFT collection, This Is Number One.
Drop Date: July 6th - July 18th
Risidio's Note: Tell us your number one as inspired by Chemical X’s project, This Is Number One.

Participate in the drop now:
✔️Like the post and tag 2 friends
✔️Follow Risidio
✔️Complete your entries via the link below

https://gleam.io/KLKN6/this-is-1-nft-giveaway

Planbetter will soon be releasing a dashboard that details your Stacking data. 🚀

https://twitter.com/planbetter_/status/1413189524625186823

Xverse just released a major update 🛠 v0.5.2 is live.

• New UI/UX
• NFTs support

https://twitter.com/secretkeylabs/status/1413187489817321472

Clarinet was added to MacHomebrew yesterday: brew install clarinet. 💻

https://twitter.com/marvinjanssen/status/1413184343753691141?s=21

Did you know that Hiro's UX Team is the one maintaining our Stacks Wallet to provide a safe and reliable way to manage our STX Holdings. They also make it easier to reference our transaction with the Stacks Explorer.

Learn more about the Hiro UX Team in their June recap, the numerous UX improvements they shipped, their internal team hackathon, and upcoming new features for Q3.

https://www.hiro.so/blog/hiro-ux-team-june-2021-recap

💥 Cara Delevingne’s Bitcoin NFT “Mine”: the first celebrity NFT art on Bitcoin through Stacks was sold for 18000 STX or 24,480 USD.

💡 Fun fact:
✅ The cost to mint & transfer “Mine” was just 0.0007 STX or $0.001
✅ It re-uses energy from Bitcoin's PoW.

Check the transaction here.
Join Risidio's community here.
https://thisisnumberone.com/

🔥Dan Held dropped another video on STX. This time it is a deep dive on Stacks, Bitcoin DeFi projects in the ecosystem, PoX, and Stacking process.

https://twitter.com/danheld/status/1414194013331206149

Hiro's Developer Team is killing it!🔥 Check this new series that they introduced: Hiro Backstage: Infrastructure Series - In this series, they took a deep dive on how they designed infrastructure and deployments at Hiro to meet demands and fluid plans to better support the recently announced Hiro Platform. As a bonus, the DevOps team also gave some tips and tricks about best practices in DevSecOps.

https://www.hiro.so/blog/hiro-backstage-infrastructure-series-introduction