Trust-less BTC swaps on Stacks, loans that repay themselves, and NFTs that earn rewards? Bitcoin DeFi just keeps getting better and better.

More on Bitcoin DeFi + updates from Stacks builders in the latest Stacks Foundation newsletter: https://newsletter.stacks.org/issues/3x-stacking-rewards-trustless-swaps-and-rounding-up-your-change-into-stx-btc-706357

🔥 Let's meet Philip De Smedt, CEO and co-founder of Arkadiko, how we want to make it easy to get access to liquidity and to borrow against your own assets on the Stacks blockchain.

Official Hiro Blog 👉
https://www.hiro.so/blog/philip-de-smedt-on-loans-that-repay-themselves
Spread the word 👉
https://twitter.com/Gina__Abrams/status/1430591396315021321

Arkadiko: Website | Twitter | Telegram | Github | Discord | Medium

Get ready! Wrapped Bitcoin is Coming to Stacks 🚀

https://twitter.com/WrappedFi/status/1430942401602990084

🌴$MIA went live on OKcoin. $MIA is the 1st-ever city-based token, an open-source public utility offering a new kind of civic engagement for the community.
CityCoins are tokens built on the $STX blockchain and allow people to support their cities.

https://twitter.com/okcoin/status/1430566119455313921?s=21

The Ryder team made it their mission to make crypto accessible and inclusive to everyone by creating a hardware wallet through a human-centered design. They focus on its usability w/ the primary goal of integrating it into our daily lives & connecting our on-chain identity w/ our real-life identity. Their team believe in using design to make a complex product more understandable. If you're curious about how their team and maker community approaches Ryder's Product Design, check out their first product blog post here: https://ryder.id/blog/the-human-centered-design-process-of-ryder/

🇰🇷 Stacks Korea just launched their Ambassadors Program.
If you would like to participate in the program, please send a DM to @gmchung.

https://t.me/BlockstackKoreaUpdate/525

A review from Hiro and the next steps about the mempool congestion. 👇

https://forum.stacks.org/t/mempool-congestion-on-stacks-observations-and-next-steps-from-hiro

UDC 2021 NOW LIVE!

Meet Muneeb through here!

Replay link (ENG): https://youtu.be/ZlOci6O-s40?t=6293

Boom's 3rd BoomBox is now available! 💥📦

https://twitter.com/boom_wallet/status/1433243874932240386

Did you know that any SIP-10 token is supported by Catamaran Swaps. Learn how you can Swap STX-FT in this tutorial by @fmdroid.

https://www.catamaranswaps.org/stx-ft/friedger.btc.friedger-token-v1::friedger

Coinbase Custody now supports deposits and withdrawals for Stacks $STX.

https://twitter.com/CoinbaseInsto/status/1433448832293957635

https://custody.coinbase.com/assets

Stacks makes #Bitcoin programmable, enabling apps and #smartcontracts that inherit all of Bitcoin’s powers.

By working together, we can make a better internet, secured by Bitcoin.

Join our new official pages and community. 👇

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1930316660468765/
https://www.facebook.com/stacks.btc

Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/stacks-stx

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/stacks

$STX is coming on WazirX, the biggest Indian exchange. 🚀

https://twitter.com/WazirXIndia/status/1435524601212190720

🇮🇳You can now buy, sell, trade STX in WazirX USDT market.

Stay tuned as STX/INR is coming plus more exciting news about Stacks and WazirX collaboration.

https://twitter.com/WazirXIndia/status/1435587485288091653

⏰ The first ever STX Accelerator Demo Day is happening tomorrow September 9th, 2021 @ 10:00 am (New York/Eastern US Time)

🫂 Tomorrow's cohort focuses on DeFi & Fintech, see the full list of teams below 👇

- ALEX
- Arkadiko
- Bransfer
- GoSats
- Lucidefi
- CryptoMate
- MOON
- Novum Insights
- SBS
- SEEK
- Tontine Trust

**with Guest Speakers**
- Ryan Hoover, Founder at ProductHunt & VC at WeekendFund
- Dan Held, Crypto Writer & Growth at Kraken
- Patrick Stanley, CEO at Freehold

👉 RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demo-day-defi-fintech-tickets-164970550357

Let's celebrate STX listing on WazirX ⚡️

WazirX & Stacks have partnered for a giveaway via a host of activities!

👉 Sept 13: AMA
👉 Sept 14: YouTube Live
👉 Sept 15: Quiz, Trivia 
👉 Sept 21 - 23: Highest Trader Kaun worth $20,000

Spread the word 🙌
https://wazirx.com/blog/stx-listing-giveaway/

Retweet: https://twitter.com/WazirXIndia/status/1435832869272817664?s=20

In case you missed it, here's an explainer video from BTCTurk Business Development Director Salim Karaman on Everything you need to know about Stacks in 10 questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8lWFcoZ0mU&feature=youtu.be

✍️Write-to-earn is coming to STX with Sigle. Their team is releasing a new version of their platform with a unique monetization model where readers can lock up Stacks tokens to support the writer and give you their Bitcoin yield without spending their principle. Learn more about this fantastic update here 👇

https://twitter.com/sigleapp/status/1434915045570383882