Stacks Updates

2023-01-26 18:02:01 Hiro's Focus Areas for Q1 2023
It’s worth noting that the upcoming Stacks 2.1 upgrade took up a lot of the Hiro team’s bandwidth in Q4, so several of our Q4 projects will continue to be priorities in Q1. Those priorities include:

API Microservices
Subnets
More Bitcoin Support Across Hiro Products
Product R&D
Network Support
Docs

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2023-01-25 07:03:01 Release the StableSwap - Arkadiko X ALEX
(source: Arkadiko Medium)

The fine folks at Alex are bringing Arkadiko the technology to create a new type of liquidity mechanism, a StableSwap pool. Such a pool is fundamental to the Arkadiko Protocol as it allows for low fee and low slippage swaps between USDA, Arkadiko’s Stablecoin and xUSD, a wrapped version of USDC custodied by Anchorage and issued by Tokensoft. The two stablecoins already exist on the Stacks blockchain but are not directly linked to each other. Thanks to the StableSwap pool, we’ll soon be able to swap between the two stablecoins.

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2023-01-24 07:40:12 sBTC Explained with Xverse
Although Stacks has made significant progress, there’s still no way to move BTC in and out of smart contracts in a fully trustless manner. This has been Bitcoin’s evasive “holy grail” issue for almost a decade. Enter sBTC: a non-custodial form of pegged Bitcoin with 100% Bitcoin finality.

The Stacks network's PoX connection to Bitcoin facilitates sBTC’s novel trustless peg design. Soon, users can convert BTC to sBTC for use in applications without involving centralized entities. Furthermore, users don’t pay any fees when converting between BTC and sBTC other than Bitcoin gas fees.

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2023-01-20 07:46:03 ALEX Introducing Trading Pool Introduction

ALEX takes every effort to ensure their AMM protocol stays relevant and is future-proof. The result is the Trading Pool, which implements Generalised Mean Equation and, with a suitable parameterisation, supports both risky pairs (i.e. xy=L), stable pairs (i.e. x+y=L) and any linear combination in-between (i.e. Curve). Read the full article here Open / Comment

2023-01-18 00:36:44 Just in: Stacks Is the #1 Web3 Project on #Bitcoin For Second Year in a Row

The 2023 @ElectricCapital report measured this by developer activity. #Stacks is also a top-30 crypto project (at #28) as measured by total developers.

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2023-01-16 08:47:01 DeSpread Report: sBTC (Stacks Bitcoin) — Unlocking Bitcoin to be a productive asset

[Table of Contents]
- Bitcoin and Financial Market
- Bitcoin Layers and $sBTC
- $sBTC Use Cases & Limitations

Read here: https://medium.com/despread-global/despread-report-sbtc-stacks-bitcoin-8eb11302ce76

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2023-01-15 21:17:02 Clarity Stacks smart contracts are decidable.

It makes analyzing the behavior of the code much more straight forward
It closes off classes of hacks, bugs, and exploits

Hiro Systems' Dev Advocate Max Efremov on Clarity's benefits.
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2023-01-14 17:26:02 What type of Stacks smart contract tutorial do you want our builders to work on?

Last time, BowTiedDeployer taught the Stacks community how to integrate NFTs into a web application or game.
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2023-01-13 17:20:05 ICYMI: The Stacks Monthly Newsletter
The Stacks ecosystem closed out 2022 with one of the biggest quarters yet, officially voting in the Stacks 2.1 upgrade while two new whitepapers were published that outlined a vision for an even more complete Stacks Bitcoin layer.

In Q4, we also watched Clarity smart contracts grow over 100%, the network crossed 7 billion in total STX transferred, and we welcomed 84 new members to the talent pool, a growth of 44% from the previous quarter.

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2023-01-12 22:16:02 "sBTC is the ability to participate in an application ecosystem where you are not leaving the #Bitcoin ecosystem in a way. Ultimately @Stacks is a Bitcoin layer."

Trust Machinesco’s Engineering Partner Igor S. about sBTC

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