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

Just in: Stacks Surges 12% Overnight While Bitcoin Stagnates. Read more about this article from Decrypt 👇

https://decrypt.co/75695/stacks-surges-12-overnight-while-bitcoin-stagnates

Thomas Osmonson, the creator of Stacking.club just released a new update! We can now check the data for all stacking cycles. 🥮

Time to go in-depth on these metrics!
https://twitter.com/aulneau_/status/1414268318530379781

It's been a year since the Stacks Foundation came to life. As one of the key entities in the ecosystem, it is essential for the Foundation to articulate what others, especially the community and ecosystem entities, can expect from them. This blog post highlights the rationale behind what they focus on and why while using concrete use cases.

Let's take a deep dive into the team's culture, vision, and how they developed a set of values and a functional approach to support the Stacks Ecosystem.
https://stacks.org/stacks-foundation-focus

👀Sneak peek of the new mining monitor from Daemon Technologies. ⛏

https://twitter.com/STXDaemon/status/1414823103184596996

Stackers, we have one more day to get our Boomboxes. Follow the steps here to get one. 💥📦

https://twitter.com/boom_wallet/status/1414997680883965954

Do you want to send STX to more than one STX address? Check out Send Many Application, an open-source web app that uses the smart contract "send-many" and "send-many-memo" with the sole purpose of helping everyone to send and view bulk STX transfers.

https://sendstx.com/

Boom welcomes 96 new members who joined their Boomboxes launch. Together with Friedger Pool, they are Stacking 11,4m STX for Cycle 12.

https://pool.friedger.de/

NEW BLOG POST ALERT! 🔔
Straight from Hiro DevEx Wizkid Alex Graebe. The BNS naming system on Stacks is a powerful identity solution that developers can leverage to get usernames and namespaces into the hands of their users. This latest piece sheds some light on the current status of the BNS support in Hiro tooling, and provides resources for getting started. Still a bit bummed I didn't get bitcoin.btc😆 , but the possibilities are endless!
https://www.hiro.so/blog/getting-started-on-chain-usernames-stacks?utm_source=telegram

MiamiCoin is here 🔥

https://twitter.com/mineCityCoins/status/1415748547253727232