“First time founders focus on product. Second time founders focus on distribution.” Check this blogpost from Patrick Stanley, founder of Freehold as he talks about why great founders seek investors with reach.

https://www.joinfreehold.com/posts/great-founders-seek-investors-with-reach

💥 New Listing: Tokocrypto just listed STX.

https://twitter.com/Tokocrypto/status/1420655561557757955

Blockchain.com Lists Stacks (STX). The listing is now live and includes STX-USDT, STX-USDC and STX-USD pairs.

As mentioned in the Foundation Q2 Recap, We are still waiting on a major US listing, rapid growth in crypto has everyone's development teams extremely backed up. [Specific information related to exchanges redacted to be courteous of these organizations]

https://twitter.com/blockchain/status/1420791732455759879

At 5pm EST, we'll be chatting with Dan Held (Director of Growth Marketing, Kraken) on 'DeFi on Bitcoin' for our next Crypto Internet session.

Join us here: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1jMJgpLgPgAxL

GoSats, one of the accelerator team just released their chrome extension. Now you can earn Bitcoin cashback while shopping.

https://twitter.com/gosatsapp/status/1420345070511742979

Sypool, a STX Community Mining Pool is coming soon? 👀

https://sypool.co/

💥 Blockchain.com just announced their Stacks (STX) trading competition.

For every Exchange user that purchases $100 of STX or more will be entered for a chance to win pooled Stacking rewards for all STX purchased and held on the Blockchain.com Exchange by Friday August 6th and held through the end of August.

Check the link below for the competition mechanics.👇
https://medium.com/blockchain/announcing-asset-drops-an-stx-trading-competition-6051638959b1

ICYMI: Catch the latest Stacker Chats video featuring special guest Trevor Owens, Managing Partner at Stacks Accelerator, to shares updates from Cohort 1 Teams. Learn why these new projects chose to build on Stacks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBZoyR26OOU

The long wait is over, you can now start mining MiamiCoin ($MIA). Here's how you can participate:
https://www.citycoins.co/post/miamicoin-mining-launch-august-3

Stacks-travaganza this weekend! 🎊

Hiro's own VP of Technology Diwaker Gupta will be giving a presentation on smart contracts for Bitcoin at Chainlink's Smart Contract Summit.

Additionally, we'll be getting the special treat of a technical demo from Marvin Janssen. 🤖

Catch up on all things Stacks this Saturday, August 7th @ ~3:25pm EST. 🔔

You can register now for free on Hopin!
https://hopin.com/events/smart-contract-summit-1

Stacks Foundation just published their goals for Q32021! 🔥 From supporting additional US-based exchange with a Stacks integration all the way to growing Clarity adoption.

Check the various KRs here 👇
https://stacks.org/foundation-objectives-q3

I'm going to be on a South African influencer's Livestream talking about Stacks tomorrow at 7pm UTC +2h. Please join if you can https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGAlWN6NITg

UX can sometimes be an ambiguous buzzword, especially in blockchain! But the UserX team at Hiro literally only has a goal: improving the experience of Stacks users. They’ve been laser focused on designing, restructuring, improving, and incorporating feedback into the suite of Hiro products that developers use to make Web 3 magic happen. 🧙

This July, they certainly didn’t kick their feet up by a swimming pool. Instead, they kicked it into high gear! They held an internal hackathon that drastically increased test coverage, implemented microblocks into the explorer and wallets, prepared Ledger wallet updates, and reimagined onboarding flow.

We’re beginning to see the Stacks dapp ecosystem explode, and products like the web wallet or explorer giver users and devs alike the power to interact with the blockchain in fun and exciting ways. The UserX Team at Hiro is dedicated to streamlining how users join our community and explore Stacks.

You can learn all about the crazy cool projects the UserX team is working on in their latest July recap!
https://www.hiro.so/blog/hiro-ux-team-july-2021-recap?utm_source=telegram

Eggschain, a Stacks Accelerator team, enables patients to track genetic material using the blockchain. Learn more about Eggschain here: https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2021/08/05/the-revolution-is-coming-tracking-sperm-on-bitcoin-with-eggschain

Mining for MiamiCoin ($MIA) has been activated. ⛏ $MIA is the first CityCoin to launch and will enable people to support the city of Miami while earning $BTC and $STX.

Check out the latest coverage of $MIA from FoxBusinessNews👇
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/mayor-suarez-on-miamicoin-launch-says-city-is-focused-on-differentiating-our-economy

Diwaker Gupta (VP of Tech, Hiro) will be presenting at Chainlink's Smart Contract Summit followed by a technical demo with Marvin Janssen (Technical Lead, Stacks Foundation) this Saturday, August 7th.

The talks will start at 3:25pm and run until 4:10pm est.
Register here: https://hopin.com/events/smart-contract-summit-1?ref=9612bdfe2e85

Muneeb Ali, co-founder of Stacks, will participate in the 'Upbit Developer Conference 2021' hosted on September 1st through 2nd and will be presenting in the smart contract session.

UDC 2021: https://udc.upbit.com

Happy Tuesday, Stacks World! 👋

I’ve got an exciting announcement for all the developers out there in our community. Stacks.js Version 2.0 is hot on the scene and ready for you to use! 🆕

Stacks.js is a Github repo that is home to the Stacks.js libraries which provide everything you could need to work with the Stacks blockchain. Authentication, storage, constructing transactions, encryption, you name it! This upgrade to version two brings loads of improvements and feature additions that we know devs are gonna love. There’s new typescript magic to help deserialize Clarity Values, as well as a super useful library to build Stacks wallets.

⚠️ One important note, there are two breaking changes included in this update that devs should be aware of. broadcastTransaction now returns a more consistent response whether it succeeds or fails, and there is no more default anchormode. Included in the blog post are code snippets that show exactly what needs to be modified on the developer’s end.

We’re thrilled about getting this update in front of the community, and know that Stacks.js will be a critical tool for juggling all the components needed to build a fully-fledged, decentralized app. Take a look at the changelog to see details pertaining to the update.

https://www.hiro.so/blog/stack-js-version-2-what-you-should-know?utm_source=telegram