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

The debut of a comprehensive new learning experience for Clarity tops off an exciting week for building on #Bitcoin 🛠

Clarity Universe is a portal and learning experience that brings together everything a developer, project, or company needs to be successful with the Clarity smart contract language. Clarity Universe includes 3 main components:

✅ Clarity Camp offer smart contract and Clarity education
✅ Clarity Starters are ready-to-use audited smart contract templates
✅ Clarity Talent is a job and talent marketplace.

https://stacks.org/clarity-universe

Eggschain, one of the teams from Stacks Accelerator secures first patent for tracking genetic material via Stacks.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eggschain-secures-first-patent-tracking-130100360.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

Sigle announced their first writer for Sigle V2 (coming out soon), a new version of Sigle where readers can support their favorite writers thru Stacking. Is this the future of monetizing content?

What's up out there, Stackers! 👋
It’s Technical Tuesday on the Hiro Blog! We’ve got a new post coming at you by one of our BIG 2021 pickups, Distributed Systems Engineer Pavitthra Pandurangan. She joined in February and hit the ground running with learning all there is to know about Stacks tech. You might even recognize her from hosting the weekly SIP reading rooms where they deep dive on the design, implementation, and governance of the Stacks blockchain. Well she spent some time rigorously researching how the Merkelized Adaptive Radix Forest (or “MARF”) allows us to efficiently query and authenticate blockchain state, and packaged up awesome explainer summarizing how data is stored on Stacks. If you’re nerdy for the crazy computer science parts of blockchain, then this is the blog post for you!
https://www.hiro.so/blog/efficient-storage-for-fork-aware-blockchains?utm_source=telegram

🐦 Retweet for a chance to win a $150 coupon at the Stacks merchandise store.
Help us spread the word about Clarity Universe - A portal and learning experience to help anyone learn how to build smart contracts on #Bitcoin.

https://gleam.io/Eqp12/clarity-universe-retweet-giveaway

Xverse wallet beta v0.5.4 is now available. Get it from their updated site:

https://www.xverse.app/

Setting your STX dollar-cost averaging strategy with RoundlyX means there’s no need to time the market, and there’s no need to choose between Bitcoin and Ethereum for earning interest. With the power of dollar-cost averaging (DCA), you can capitalize on holding Bitcoin and earning interest in Bitcoin with RoundlyX and Okcoin!

check out RoundlyX latest blog post to learn more!

https://twitter.com/RoundlyX/status/1414606324688621572

Shout-out to Stacks Grantee, Jolocom, for launching their new GDPR-compliant blockchain identity management app, SmartWallet 2.0. This app is used for storing digital assets and identification, and users have an easy way to opt out of firms collecting their personally identifiable data.

Users can store their identity info on their device, control who can see it, and understand how their identity is used. Nobody, including Jolocom themselves, can access the data without permission.

Learn more: https://aithority.com/technology/blockchain/jolocom-launches-new-gdpr-compliant-blockchain-identity-management-app-smartwallet-2-0/

CLARITY DEVELOPERS REJOICE! 🙌

Today, Hiro officially announced a tool that greatly streamlines the creation, testing, and deployment of smart contracts on Stacks. Clarinet, developed by engineer Ludo Galabru, is our new go-to utility for local Clarity smart contract development. Its included Clarity REPL and testing harness allow devs to rapidly develop and test a Clarity smart contract, without the need to deploy the contract to a local mocknet or testnet.

Clarinet has truly been Ludo’s labor of love the last few months, and his goal in developing the tool was to make coding smart contracts as streamlined and secure as possible for beginner and experienced Stacks devs alike. Clarinet is so powerful and easy that we’ve even implemented it into tutorials in our docs, like the new Billboard or NFT tutorials. 🛠

A huge thank you to a lot of community members & projects for assisting with the development of Clarinet, using it to build their projects, and giving feedback on desired features. We couldn’t be more thrilled to get this in front of devs, and have them begin incorporating Clarinet while building smart contracts required for their dapp. Don’t be shy! Ludo would love to hear any and all feedback in the tool’s repository on Github.

Now get out there and make sweet sweet smart contract music! 🎷
https://www.hiro.so/blog/clarinet-taking-clarity-development-next-level?utm_source=telegram

ICYMI: We're pleased to announce the Stacks Twitter giveaway following the Clarity Universe launch, a learning portal for the smart contract language.

Take part (until 28th July) for a chance to win a $150 card at the Stacks Merch store!

Participate: https://stacks.org/universe-swag#author

STX price rallied 195% after the introduction of smart contracts enabled the launch of DeFi and NFTs on the Bitcoin network. -Cointelegraph

https://cointelegraph.com/news/stacks-stx-price-rallies-195-after-revealing-plans-to-bring-defi-to-bitcoin

Did you manage to catch the latest Stacker Chat last week? Dr. Muneeb Ali (Co-founder, Stacks and CEO, Hiro) and Gina Abrams (Special Projects, Hiro) talks about the following:

0:41: Can you tell us more about Bitcoin transactions cross-chain on Stacks?
5:42: What are the properties that make Stacks uniquely possible for interacting with the Bitcoin base chain?
7:45: What is your reaction to the TBD Bitcoin DeFi Project that was recently announced by Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO?
11:31: One question that has been coming up in conversations lately is around commitments and contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem, where do you see Stacks fitting into that conversation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFmK-004Gz4

The BTC swap of $MNO, the first meme token based on Stacks, has been successfully completed!

An exchange between BTC and Stacks-based Fungible Token.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kickstarterbtc/status/1419635898329665541

The Ryder Team released their Q22021 Recap. Let's check on all the progress they've made and how their maker community helped unlock their next fundable milestone.

https://twitter.com/Ryder_ID/status/1419743665824706568

Tomorrow's builder session will be featuring back-to-back DeFi projects. The first one is Taral, which eliminates the friction, costs, and time normally associated with trade finance. Second is the crowd's favorite Arkadiko, whose progress we will check after they closed their Regtest. We will discuss the various learnings and improvements they made on the product. This is also the time to ask how we as a community can help in their upcoming Mainnet launch in October.

See you builders on what they call "DeFi Summer" but of course on Bitcoin.

Agenda:
7:00 - 7:05 - Community check-in
7:05 - 7:20 - Taral
7:20 - 7:35 - Arkadiko
7:35 - 8:00 - Open Discussion

☝️ For Q and A join this reddit thread.
✅ Add to your calendar here
✅ Join Arkadiko Community: Discord or Telegram