Stacks Updates

🚨 Stacks Grants Program Approved Funding Requests - Cohort 18 (Part 2/2) 11 Grant funding requests are approved by the Stacks Grants committee. The last 6 accepted funding requests are displayed below. Be sure to comment & star your favourite Grants to show support for future initiatives. ⭐️  This grant proposal aims to standardize & improve a cross-collections staking experience so that teams can deploy flexible, tested staking experiences. Read more 👈 ⭐️ Unlocking native BTC funded DAOs will open up Stacks to the broader bitcoin holder market who could then use their BTC to fund DAOs, ranging from grant-giving DAOs and investment DAOs, to service DAOs and special purpose DAOs (like ConstitutionDAOs). Read more 👈 ⭐️ The first stableswap DEX live on Stacks. A 'real yield' protocol design that rewards liquidity providers with the same tokens used in the underlying pools Read more 👈 ⭐️ The project aims to build stxmempool.space - an open source implementation of mempool.space for Stacks. Read more 👈 ⭐️ A standalone service continuously extracting all Bitcoin data into PostgreSQL db Read more 👈 ⭐️ NFT2Loan will be launched, >1000 NFT holders have access to NFT loans. Read more 👈 Watch the full workflow of all cohort Grant submissions on the GitHub Repo. Add the GitHub page to your Watchlist & Star the page to get continuous updates on what's going on.

🚨 Stacks listed on Kraken 🚨 A huge win for the Stacks community 💜 Funding is live, and trading will begin on October 21 at approximately 14:30 UTC. View the announcement here 👇

🚨 Stacks Grants Program Approved Funding Requests - Cohort 18 (Part I/2) 11 Grant funding requests have been approved by the Stacks Grants committee. The first 5 Grants are displayed below. Be sure to comment & star your favourite Grants to show support for future initiatives. ⭐️ Trajan creates crypto endorsements to build a comprehensive reputation of merit, which becomes a decentralized identity that generates crypto assets. More here 👈 ⭐️ Metastackdata.com proudly presents the first legally compliant Stacking pool with Lightning payouts. For the first time, Stackers will be able to stack STX and earn BTC at zero-commission with the lowest possible BTC tx fees. More here 👈 ⭐️ Creating an “Advanced mobile games toolset for F2P and P2E merger” will create a bridge between Free to Play Web 2.0 gaming and Play to Earn Web3 gaming allowing non-crypto game dev studios and publishers to easily implement Stacks blockchain to their games. More here 👈 ⭐️ Stacks Commerce (STX-C) is a smart contract system enabling independent buyers, sellers & value add parties to contribute & be rewarded for the exchange of goods & services. More here 👈 ⭐️ This project aims to make the WalletConnect protocol compatible with Stacks apps and wallets. More here 👈 Watch the full workflow of all cohort Grant submissions on the GitHub Repo. Add the GitHub page to your Watchlist & Star the page to get continuous updates on what's going on.

🚨 Priorities from the 2022 Ecosystem Offsite On September 19, 2022 the Stacks Foundation held the first Stacks Offsite with builders from the ecosystem to talk through technical priorities, share opportunities, and discuss the known challenges within the roadmap. The goal was to bring together a diverse group of builders to outline common priorities, and build working groups and a public roadmap to share with the community. As a community, we identified three priorities: ⭐️ Speed and Scalability Improvements ⭐️ Bitcoin Write ⭐️ Bitcoin NFTs Read more about the results 👇

🚨 Live in 10 minutes: ReFi 🚨 There needs to be a holistic approach to sustainability in the blockchain industry. And, finally, the focus seems to be converging on that cross chain collaboration for bolstering ReFi. We talk to builders and advocates across blockchain communities all working towards a better future on Join the conversation Join Host: Kyle Ellicott (@Kyleellicott). Panelists: Brittany Laughlin (@br_ttany), Kevin Owocki (@owocki), Jeanne Bloch (@JeanneBloch) talking about ReFi 👇 Join live here 👇

ICYMI: Codeacademy just launched a free and beginner-friendly course in partner with the Stacks Foundation! 📚 Explore the tech behind Web3, Metaverse, and cryptocurrency with their new intro course and learn about 📙 ⭐ Web2 and Web3 architecture differences ⭐ Decentralization's pros and cons ⭐ What smart contracts are, their uses, and the programming languages behind them ⭐ Metaverse and how to design your own -- and more! Check it out below 👇 https://bit.ly/3LEME8H

Here's another Builder Spotlight with BlockSurvey ☄️ We sat down with Wilson Bright, the co-founder of BlockSurvey, to learn more about their mission, project, and so much more! 💬 They provide users with a stack of tools and audiences for data collection with ownership, privacy, and security at an affordable cost. 🔏 Read the full feature below 🔻 https://stacks.org/spotlight-blocksurvey

Did you know that Second Cohort applications are now open for the pre-accelerator? ℹ️ A 2-month step-by-step Bootcamp for startups with one-on-one mentorship offering everything founders need to build their team and solid Web3 startup core to get fast-tracked to Stacks Ventures for growth and raising funds. What You Get ⏬ ✨ Mentorship ✨ Community ✨ Knowledge ✨ Workshops Application Deadline: Nov 9th, 2022! We're building the best startup community in the crypto space, join us and accelerate your success! 🚀 Apply here 👇 https://web3startuplab.io/

Hey everyone, it’s time for Zesty Giveaway📢🍊 To juice things up for the coming Testnet, we are giving away a total of $1,000 in $BTC + $STX to 50 winners! Do this to win: ✅Complete this👉 https://bit.ly/3TiwEMo ✅Follow @ZestProtocol + RT this tweet ( https://twitter.com/zestprotocol/status/1580898717959303168?s=46&t=Tbmt_n13H4L-YyUb36aMEA ) + Join Discord ✅Tag 3 friends on Twitter on that tweet

We'd like to congratulate Unbanked 🎉 They recently won the Start Engine pitch competition and $25,000 from Kevin O'Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful 🏆 Unbanked is a global fintech solution built on blockchain, and they support our network enabling Stacks holders to use $STX in real-time while also earning 8 to 10% bitcoin yield on their balance by Stacking! 🌐 Check out their pitch here 📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD7Rz3UYAhA&t=2278s

Zesty Announcement 📢🍊 After months of development, Zest Protocol is soon to be ready for the world. Participate in our Official Testnet on Oct 20th to be an OG. Learn more by: ✅Follow @ZestProtocol on Twitter + RT this ✅Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/dvHY4ERatv

🔥Introducing: STXDX & its token $XDX STXDX (Stacks-DEX) is the first order book DEX built on Bitcoin via Stacks. STXDX will be powered by $XDX token. ALEX & atALEX holders will be airdropped $XDX and participate in revenue share subject to governance. Read more⬇️ https://medium.com/alexgobtc/introducing-stxdx-and-its-token-xdx-3f1c864ad1ca

Tune in on our monthly webinar as we tackle Regenerative Finance 💱 We'll talk to builders and advocates across blockchain communities, all working towards a better future on blockchain. ⚒️ 🗓️ October 18 🕰️ 11:00 AM PT 📍 Hopin We'll hear from: ⚬ Brittany Laughlin, Executive Director, Stacks Foundation ⚬ Kyle Ellicott, Partner, Stacks Ventures ⚬ Kevin Owocki, Founder, Gitcoin ⚬ Jeanne Bloch, Seed Gardener, DEB for innovative Value Flow Register below 👇 https://hopin.com/events/making-sure-crypto-really-does-save-the-world-a-conversation-on-refi

📺 Watch Back: Bitcoin Unleashed: Builders 📺 Muneeb Ali (Stacks Founder), Dan Held, Brittany Laughlin, Trevor Owen, Hadan Esperidiao (ALEX Lab), Tycho Onnasch (Zest Protocol), Ken Liao (Xverse), Mark Mckenzie (Megapont Founder) and many more amazing builders discussed Stacks growth during last week's event 🚀 Watch back all talks on YouTube (timestamps available in the comments) 👇

We've all heard the buzz for Stacks 2.1 -- an exciting major network upgrade for the Stacks Blockchain ⚡ And the developers might be wondering how it will affect their experience and Hiro developer tooling. 🤔 Hiro got us covered! 🧡 They created a guide, and you check it out here 🔽 https://www.hiro.so/blog/a-developers-guide-to-stacks-2-1

In the past year, DeFi has exploded in popularity. Developers are expanding its possibilities to new use cases and ecosystems, including bringing DeFi to the original blockchain itself: Bitcoin. 📈 Let's dive deeply into DeFi on Bitcoin; learn the challenges it faces and how Stacks help address them. 🔑 Read the full article below ⬇️ https://www.hiro.so/blog/bitcoin-economy-the-challenges-of-bitcoin-defi

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Bitcoin Unleashed: Builders Edition Starting NOW! We're live with the 1-day Stacks builders event 🚀 Kicking things off with Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali talking about the new exciting update: Stacks 2.1 🌐 Come join us 👈 See schedule 👈

At Bitcoin Unleashed: Builders Edition, we'll explore new frontiers on making NFTs more than digital collectibles! 🖼️ We've got an exciting panel that consists of Brian Laughlan of Satoshibles, Jamil Dhanani of Gamma.io, Jessica Greenwalt of Unum, Louise Ivan of Ryder, and Mark McKenzie of Megapont 👥 You don't want to miss this! Tune in tomorrow ☄️ There's still time, sign-up below 🔽 https://bitcoinunleashed.org/builders

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