Stacks Updates

2022-12-30 01:47:03 The Future of Bitcoin Decentralized Finance With Stacks
Will Bitcoin Decentralized Finance thrive in the future? Here from industry leaders in the world of Finance!

@FransScholten - Investor @FlowTraders
@TychoOnnasch - Co-founder @ZestProtocol
@VictorvanEijk1 - Director Institutional Sales @M11Credit

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2022-12-29 21:46:02 Launch: Liquidium Decentralized Finance
The Mainnet for Liquidium is almost here! Borrow against your NFTs on Stacks.

Tomorrow, Liquidium will launch on Mainnet. MVP will introduce a treasury-based model. Liquidium will offer loans to users who want to borrow against their NFTs.

Read the thread published earlier this month on how Liquidium will launch on Mainnet. Open / Comment

2022-12-26 01:47:03 Unlocking Bitcoin’s Full Potential - With sBTC, the First Trustless Bitcoin Peg
Unlocking Bitcoin to be a fully programmable, productive asset would finally enable Bitcoin to be the backbone of DeFi and a more secure Web3. sBTC solves the problem of trustlessly writing to Bitcoin, enabling easy movement of Bitcoin in and out of Bitcoin layers. This unlocks hundreds of billions of dollars of latent capital into Web3.

But what does this mean? What is a Trustless Peg? Read the full article Open / Comment

2022-12-24 19:36:03 Stacks Merchandise
To celebrate the approval of the Stacks 2.1 upgrade by the community, all Stacks merchandise is 21% off until Sunday midnight.

Find out more about the available Stacks merchandise here Open / Comment

2022-12-24 01:03:02 Updates from the Stacks Ecosystem

BlockSurvey introduced BlockSurvey 4.0 - Create gated forms & surveys with end to end encryption. Read the tweet thread

StackerDAO Labs introduced Team, a multisig tool for the Bitcoin web3 ecosystem. Now live. Read the tweet thread Open / Comment

2022-12-22 01:27:04 ICYMI: Growing the Bitcoin Economy with Bitcoin Layers
Introducing sBTC and the ‘Nakamoto’ Release of Stacks

sBTC: This paper discusses a trustless two-way Bitcoin peg system: sBTC. This peg system can help us fulfill the rest of the original vision of Stacks by enabling trustless writing to Bitcoin.

Stacks Whitepaper: The Nakamoto Release with a Trustless Bitcoin Peg. This paper describes changes to the Stacks Bitcoin layer needed to enable the trustless functioning of the newly proposed sBTC asset described in the first paper as well as faster block times and other improvements.

Read the full introduction article here Open / Comment

2022-12-21 18:07:03 Read about Trust Machine's Tycho Onnasch' Zest Protocol introduction to the Bitcoin audience during Bitcoin 2022
(source: Zest Protocol, Tycho Onnasch)

"Bitcoin Amsterdam was already a little while ago - in October 2022. Yet after the FTX drama, the case for Zest Protocol has only grown stronger. I gave a talk to share Zest Protocol with the wider world for the first time and to educate Bitcoiners about Bitcoin capital markets."

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2022-12-20 01:42:04 ICYMI: It's Official: The #Stacks 2.1 Upgrade is Approved
Strengthening The Connection to #Bitcoin
The community voted in favour of the Stacks 2.1 update proposal

Stacks 2.1 involves
- Stacking Improvements
- New Clarity Functions for Parsing and Validating Data
- Better Bridges
- Decentralized Mining Pools
- Pay-to-Anyone Coinbase
- Mining with Segwit and Taproot
- Bitcoin-native Assets and Smart Contract Control

Find out what you can expect in terms of the remaining rollout process and how to stay up to date Open / Comment

2022-12-16 00:01:24 An exciting week for the Stacks community - Stacks Recap
sBTC Whitepaper release
Stacks (The Nakomoto Release) whitepaper release
Stacks 2.1 voting ending

What an incredible week for the Stacks community!
In case you need a recap:
Find out more on both whitepaper releases on the landing page
Watch Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali explain sBTC on the latest Stacker Chats
Read the introduction blog for the whitepaper releases


Join us in 1 hour for the Twitter spaces recap with Muneeb Ali, Kyle Ellicott & more! Set a reminder here Open / Comment

2022-12-15 17:44:13 Happening today: The '22 Stackies

Industry highlights & looking ahead for '23
Community highlights
Community awards

Best Technical Builder
Best Community Builder
Most Inspiring Thought Leader
Meme Master
Favorite Project
Project to Watch

When: In 1 hour
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