🚨 The last winners from the #BTCNFTGiveaway are announced!
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 12 days of Bitcoin NFT giveaway event 🙏

View Twitter thread on who won 👀

💸 Arkadiko Update 💸

xBTC/USDA Liquidity Provision went live! Stackers you can now add your liquidity here 👇
https://app.arkadiko.finance/swap/add/xBTC/USDA

Swapping will be available when xBTC/USDA hits about ~$250K in liquidity.
LP staking rewards are live as well. As usual, the Stake page might take a little to load, but fret not as the team is optimising this next week.

Happy swapping! ♻️😏

ICYMI: The Stacks ecosystem is proud to be supporting Bitcoin development!

The Stacks Open Internet Foundation is working with Brink, Okcoin, Daemon Technologies 地灵科技 , and Hiro Systems to dedicate a portion of rewards from the 24th Stacking cycle to fund talented people contributing to Bitcoin Core.

Learn more about how to get involved 👇
https://stacks.org/giving-back-to-bitcoin

ICYMI: The Stacks community got to vote for their favourite people and projects in the Stacks ecosystem 🗳
Want to see who won? 👀
Check out the reveal video 👈

🔥Stacks Accelerator Update

Deadline to Apply to $STX Accelerator Cohort 2 is extended to Jan 31st!

Applications are open, come join us and accelerate your success!
https://stacks.ac/

🦍 Megapont announced their Megapont Fund 💰

It's the gateway to a grant and/or time from the Megapont team to kickstart your Stacks project. The Megapont Team will help successful applicants in any way we can and aim to provide constructive feedback if we do not push forward with your application.

Apply Now: https://z694nhx5q5a.typeform.com/to/PYDeLNPw

What was the main reason for you to join the Stacks community? 👀

Brief overview of Stacks' ecosystem development in 2021 👉 See video

Thank you to those who have been part of the Stacks community last year. You are the reason this insane development is possible 🙏

Wrong answers only ❌ NFT stands for? 🤔

Stacks accelerator announced a new program track to foster the future of crypto cities Cityscape being built on CityCoins.

✅ Startup funding
✅ Support from top mentors in web3 and Stacks
✅ Product & marketing training, support on design, admin, legal & ops
✅ Pitch coaching, investor matching & demo day

Applications are open ✍️
https://kyleellicott.medium.com/stacks-accelerator-announces-a-three-month-program-to-build-the-future-of-civic-engagement-on-d2ba8b94f14a

🥚 Eggschain X Boston IVF 🥚

Eggschain, a Stacks-based genetic data tracking platform, has signed a partnership with Boston IVF, a famous American infertility clinic.

“Using the blockchain to track biospecimens such as sperm and eggs empowers individuals facing reproductive issues. This pivotal partnership enables greater confidence through the transparency and immutability of the data.”

Read more 👉 Cointelegraph Article

⬇️ Advice needed ⬇️
As part of the loyal Stacks Telegram community, what kind of content would you like to see here more? 🤔

CityCoins: Can it be a Solution for City Government and Local Funding?

[Table of Contents]
- How do CityCoins and MiamiCoin Work?
- What's the Point of CityCoins?
- Potential Pitfalls of CityCoins
- Closing Thoughts
- References and Further Reading

https://www.coingecko.com/buzz/citycoins-can-it-be-a-solution-for-city-government-and-local-funding

Finally, the moment Everyone has been waiting for~ The IDO Details!

Amount to be raised 👉 $100,000
Tokens per IDO Ticket 👉 300 $ALEX
Price per $ALEX 👉 $0.32 (The IDO will be using $STX as base token.)
Vesting 👉 No vesting period.

Time: Jan 10th, 10AM HKT / 11AM KST / 2AM UTC

The IDO Sales page will be here TOMORROW 👉 http://app.alexlab.co/

Tweet: https://twitter.com/alexgoBtc/status/1480177152029040648

As for the Lottery Ticket holders, we wish you great luck! 😉

Stacks (formerly known as Blockstack) is an open-source blockchain network that enables smart contracts and applications on the most decentralized blockchain, Bitcoin.

Stacks provides the foundation for a truly user-owned internet by taking Bitcoin beyond a simple store of value.

Currently, Citycoins, Bitcoin-based DEX, stablecoins, and metaverse games are being built by taking advantage of Stacks, which provides high accessibility to pure Bitcoin.

Let's take a look at the overview of the ecosystem and Stacks-based project from the link below.

https://bit.ly/stacks_ecosystem

⏰ Not much time left ⏰

Lock your $STX for approximately two weeks to support the Bitcoin Core developers at Brink ✊

Thanks to the Xverse team at Secretkeylabs, you can easily do so by using the Xverse mobile wallet 🙏

Check out how to do so by going to this article 👉 Unleashing Bitcoin: Start 2022 by giving back

The WELSH listing governance vote passed with ~95% in support.

This means the STX/WELSH pair was added on the Arkadiko Swap. The pair will be enabled after the Welshcorgi team adds liquidity (45K STX against 250M WELSH). You can get 1 WELSH for 0.00018 STX when trading opens.

Happy swapping!

DeFi on Bitcoin?
@AlexCommunity are the first full service DeFi platform on #Bitcoin via Stacks @StacksIndia!

We'll be going live with Cofounder & CEO Dr. Chiente Hsu in TWO days!

👉🏻Submit questions for her: https://forms.gle/LJXgQaGFKDqmGxCf9

They also have two giveaways for you!

🕹https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fis_MqRKUgM

Support for viewing collectibles is live for Onstacks, go check it out!

https://twitter.com/BeOnStacks/status/1480734397032968192

🔨[Dev] Stack-based DAO, ExecutorDAO

Marvin Janssen, Technical Lead of the Stacks Foundation published a Stacks-based DAO, ExecutorDAO.

ExecutorDAO is written with Clarity, and all proposals are executed through Smart Contracts. It is designed to be completely modular and flexible, leveraging Clarity to the fullest extent. The core tenets of ExecutorDAO that make this possible are:

✅ Proposals are smart contracts.
✅ The core executes, the extensions give form.
✅ Ownership control happens via sending context.

https://twitter.com/MarvinJanssen/status/1480160839525187585