Stacks Updates

The winners for Part 1 of the Clarity Hackathon have been announced! All of the submissions really showcased the power of Clarity, and we are already looking forward to the results of Part 2: Tooling. A huge congrats to all of the prize recipients, especially PSQ’s Trustless Token Exchange project for landing the Best Overall Contract award. Head on over to the Hackathon site to check out descriptions and Github links for all of the submissions. https://community.blockstack.org/clarity-winners

The second phase of the Stacks 2.0 testnet is live!: https://twitter.com/blockstack/status/1268207553080680459

JUST IN: Today, Non-US users will be able to trade STX on KuCoin https://twitter.com/blockstack/status/1265498329234001922

JUST IN: The Stacks Foundation has officially launched today in a major step toward decentralization for the Stacks ecosystem. https://twitter.com/StacksOrg/status/1263544139263561728

To celebrate Bitcoin halving, we released the full PoX paper v1.0. This improves on the earlier draft with a dynamic threshold for consensus participation from STX holders, a native delegate operation to delegate STX to other services for consensus particulation amongst other things. Details in the paper: https://twitter.com/muneeb/status/1260230643117699074?s=20

The May 8th edition of "This Week in Blockstack" covers all the latest technical and community developments within the Blockstack ecosystem: https://twitter.com/blockstackrs/status/1258897932448866304

Blockstack will be part of Consensus Distributed next week. There will be a fireside chat between Muneeb Ali and Nathaniel Whittemore, as well as a multi-part session covering recent ecosystem highlights led by Muneeb, Brittany Laughlin, Xan Ditkoff, and Hank Stoever. Join us on May 12th: https://twitter.com/blockstack/status/1258049603112448001

We’re having a public call to go over Blockstack PBC annual report filed with the SEC and general ecosystem updates at 10am ET today. Registration link: https://community.blockstack.org/sec-annual

Blockstack PBC has filed its annual SEC report, the most comprehensive report since July 2019. The report, which includes audited financials and ecosystem progress since 2019, reflects an unparalleled level of transparency in crypto: https://twitter.com/muneeb/status/1255502779856105480

CoinDesk covered Blockstack PBC's patent pledge and second patent. Blockstack PBC pledges to use all of its existing patents for defensive purposes only: https://www.coindesk.com/blockstack-pledges-to-enforce-patents-for-defensive-purposes-only

Over 200 community members tuned in to today's community town hall. Watch a replay here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/testnet-townhall

ANNOUNCEMENT: Stacks 2.0 testnet just went live! This marks a major milestone in Blockstack’s work towards Stacks 2.0 mainnet launch and Proof of Transfer (PoX) mining https://twitter.com/muneeb/status/1253383409596092417

JUST IN: CoinDesk article on Stacks 2.0 testnet: Blockstack is ready to let people try out its new consensus mechanism https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1253354675589562368

KuCoin enters into agreement to list Stacks (STX) and increase access to the Blockstack network. https://twitter.com/br_ttany/status/1253290571801780224?s=20

Blockstack Q1 2020 updates are online! Learn about Stacks 2.0 progress and testnet launch amongst other updates: https://twitter.com/muneeb/status/1253007426040877057?s=20

Weekly update on the Stacks 2.0 protocol upgrade: https://twitter.com/blockstack/status/1252376155358818305

The April 17th edition of "This Week in Blockstack" covers all the latest technical and community developments within the Blockstack ecosystem: https://twitter.com/blockstackrs/status/1251314412566335489

Check out this thread to get up to speed on all the progress that the Stacks blockchain engineers have been making with regards to the Stacks 2.0 protocol upgrade: https://twitter.com/blockstack/status/1250503990388723712

Muneeb sat down with Forbes contributor, Justin O'Connell to discuss how Bitcoin could end up anchoring Web 3.0. Read more: https://twitter.com/justinofconnell/status/1249720057023705089

The April 10th edition of "This Week in Blockstack" covers all the latest technical and community developments within the Blockstack ecosystem: https://twitter.com/blockstackrs/status/1248762923822067712