Stacks Updates

2023-01-11 21:14:03 Stacks Hackathon Winners
Congratulations to the following three projects for winning prizes during the last Stacks Clarity Smart Contract hackathon.

1st place: Votr
2nd place: Defi-arkadiko-compound
3rd place: All or nothing

Start building on Bitcoin & get funded
Below are the top Stacks Critical Bounties that we’re ready to fund today, should a qualified party apply to work on them.

Clarity Smart-contracts that specifically leverage Stacks 2.1 unlocks (Continuous Stacking, Topping Off, Improved Bridging)
Stacks Libraries, SDKs, and associated documentation for Rust, C, GoLang, Java, Python, Clojure
Stacks integrations for Dune, Nansen, Token Terminal, and/or other multi-chain on-chain analytics platforms

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2023-01-10 21:10:12 Even more builders will soon start building on #Bitcoin
Clarity Stacks smart contract camp starting tomorrow. Join the next cohort or self-paced course here.
Web3startuplab Stacks startups cohort 3 applications opened. Register here.
Stacks Startups accelerator deadline closing soon. Register here Open / Comment

2023-01-07 00:10:10 Step Aside, Ethereum: Blockchain Project Stacks Wants to Bring Smart Contracts to Bitcoin
(source: Coindesk)

"Blockchain project Stacks has published a whitepaper showing how a new digital asset called “Stacks bitcoin” (sBTC) can be used to make Bitcoin fully programmable."

"Unlike Ethereum or Solana where developers can conjure up all manner of algorithmic machinations – think six-figure gorilla avatars – Bitcoin’s simpler scripting language limits what Bitcoin developers can create on the platform. Stacks, an existing smart contract platform, wants to break through those limitations by introducing a new digital asset derived from Bitcoin" Read the full article Open / Comment

2023-01-06 00:06:02 Builder Spotlight: Wow Labz
Advait Danke is the Project Lead for Pirates at Wow Labz, one of India's leading turnkey product development companies. Wow Labz is setting out to create a play-and-earn game based on Stacks. In this discussion, we cover the challenges of building a game on the blockchain based in randomness, how their work will help to shape the Stacks ecosystem, the distinction between Web2 and Web3, and more. Open / Comment

2023-01-05 00:05:19 ICYMI: Xverse Launched its Desktop Browser Extension
"Xverse, the leading self-custodial wallet for Bitcoin Web3, is proud to announce the launch of its new desktop browser extension. Available for Chrome and currently in beta testing, the extension enables more powerful applications in the Bitcoin ecosystem."

Read the full announcement here Open / Comment

2023-01-04 00:03:03 ICYMI: Liquidium DeFi launched on mainnet
Liquidium, the first NFT lending procotol on Stacks, is live on mainnet

View the Twitter announcement here Open / Comment

2023-01-03 01:50:14 Deconstructing sBTC, The Whitepaper
By @wbnns

"Being able to make Bitcoin fully programmable would unlock defi for all holders. It would be a pivotal moment in the cryptosphere, akin to discovering electricity in a dark age. Or something even more remarkable, like nuclear fission."

Read @wbnns' two part deconstruction of the sBTC whitepaper down below
Part one
Part two Open / Comment

2023-01-01 17:56:02 Introducing Zest Protocol at Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022
Zest Protocol is the underlying infrastructure that will make decentralised Bitcoin capital markets possible for the first time. We will use the technical breakthroughs that the Stacks programming layer offers to build decentralised capital markets into the Bitcoin blockchain.

Read Tycho Onnasch's full article here Open / Comment

2022-12-31 17:54:01 Read Bitcoin & Write to Bitcoin - Introducing sBTC With Stacks
With the launch of sBTC, the Stacks layer will be the first Bitcoin layer to enable Bitcoin writes, trustless movement of BTC in and out of the layer, while securing transactions by 100% of Bitcoin hash power.

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2022-12-30 21:52:01 x10 YoY Stacks Smart Contract Growth in 2022

The Bitcoin layer Stacks has seen more than 10x YoY growth in Total Contracts Deployed between January and December of this year!
Over 370 virtual Clarity education program participants
Many successful hackathons

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