Gamma and Hungry Artist, a Stacks artist and trailblazer in the contemporary art scene, invites you to witness The Dreamers' Gallery—an exhibition that challenges artistic norms and defies expectations. This is the world's first-ever digital art gallery dedicated to Bitcoin NFTs!

While Bitcoin is already the largest, most valuable, and most durable decentralized asset, Layer 2 technologies can further enhance its utility and enable new use cases and applications. By leveraging Layer 2 technologies, developers and users can enjoy increased flexibility, functionality, and innovation on the Bitcoin network – in other words, fully programmable BTC.

Q1 2023 was another productive quarter which saw the successful rollout of Stacks 2.1 and overall growth

We’re introducing the Stacks Foundation objectives for Q2 2023

Hear that? That’s the sound of AI-enhanced learning empowering new Bitcoin builders with zero time spent on setup. Replit, a quickly growing developer platform powered by AI and an interactive in-browser learning framework, now features the Stacks layer for Bitcoin. This means developers (or those looking to become developers) can learn to build and deploy applications that serve the Bitcoin economy using Replit templates and tutorials.

The Stacks Foundation's Chapters Program is a community-driven initiative designed to support the growth of local Stacks communities around the world. This blog post outlines the benefits of joining the Chapters Program, such as funding, community support, marketing and promotion, access to resources, and recognition and awards. Anyone interested in the Stacks blockchain can apply to start a local Stacks Chapter and help promote its growth and adoption with the support of the Stacks Foundation and a global network of enthusiasts, developers, and thought leaders.

Stacks is built on Bitcoin because Bitcoin is the most secure, reliable and decentralized blockchain. Bitcoin layers extend Bitcoin’s functionality without changing Bitcoin itself and compromising its security or decentralization. sBTC, the upcoming 1:1 Bitcoin backed asset, enables Stacks smart contracts to write to Bitcoin – unlocking the value of Bitcoin and enabling previously dormant use cases. Here’s a quick look at 10 ways that sBTC will unlock the power of Bitcoin.

At the Stacks Foundation, Q1 has been a whirlwind of exciting conferences, hackathons, workshops, meetups and we’re just getting started - let the Spring event season and beyond begin! Check out what we’ve been up to and find out how you can join us at future events this year.

Grants are a key building block of the Stacks ecosystem. In addition to providing ongoing support to critical public goods, grants fund what builders need most. With the upcoming network upgrade (Nakamoto, which brings us Bitcoin write capabilities via sBTC), the grants program has the opportunity to leverage Critical Bounties, or RFP-style grants, to help get the highest priority tools/technologies into the hands of builders and users eager to take advantage of sBTC. Read on to learn more about the kinds of projects and teams that are suitable for critical bounties and how you can contribute to the list of critical bounties for Q2 and beyond.

There is a buzz in the air around building on Bitcoin. The rapid rise of Ordinals and Inscriptions has catalyzed a Bitcoin renaissance and is beginning to give rise to a new generation of Bitcoin builders. In this edition of the Building on Bitcoin Hackathon, we saw some of the first versions of applications embracing and utilizing emerging tooling like ordinals and Stacks to build cool things and make Bitcoin fun again. While we had several interesting and compelling projects, three stood out due to their exceptional creativity, code design, and secure testing coverage.

Ordinals seemingly came out of nowhere, utilizing BTC in a way we hadn't really seen before. In short, Ordinals is a protocol developed by Casey Rodarmor that manages to count individual satoshis; ordering them, from the first one in the genesis block. This somewhat novel way of looking at Bitcoin sparked a wave of tools, products, and debate. As you might imagine, counting satoshis back that far gives another meaning to these sats. Collectors are proving this in the volume they're being traded for.

We’re introducing the Stacks Foundation objectives for Q1 2023

In Q4, the Stacks community delivered a host of massive technical upgrades as well as an exciting look ahead at the networks future.

Bitcoin-backed DeFi: one of the many big unlocks coming with sBTC. In this post, we introduce a few key use cases in DeFi and Tycho from Zest Protocol shares more about his team's work in DeFi.

Will Binns is the founder of Wrapped, a cross-chain bridge designed for high-performance and speed. Will is also the former maintainer of Bitcoin.org and current editor of Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum. His focuses are protocol, smart contracts, and web3 development.

One of the core tenets of the Stacks community has always been transparency and open dialogue between the great contributors, experts, and builders who are working to grow and elevate the network. Messari leverages their industry-leading crypto market intelligence to bring the same transparency and discussion we believe in to the entire crypto industry. We are excited to share some of the key takeaways from their State of Stacks Q4 2022 report that was just released.

Researching protocols? Don't let hype and market cap distract you from what counts. As a developer, you didn't select the language you first learned without consideration, and you shouldn't do that with protocols, either. Protocols are more than just a modular part of your application or business, they’re fundamental to the value you're going to provide users.

The Clarity Holiday hackathon brought quite a few interesting submissions that highlight unique and useful use cases for building decentralized software with Stacks. All the submissions were great this round, but there were three that were selected as the top projects for their combination of creativity, excellent testing, quality code design, and documentation.

Votes are in and it’s official: the Stacks 2.1 upgrade is approved! This upgrade includes new functions and improvements that make the Stacks Bitcoin layer more powerful and more useful. Below, we've recapped what you can expect in terms of the remaining rollout process, a breakdown of the voting results, and resources to help you stay up to date.

Growing the Bitcoin Economy with Bitcoin Layers.

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.

Ultimately, we are not awarding grants to the latest cohort of applicants because we need to allocate funds and resources to projects that address the ecosystem’s most pressing needs. The proposals from this batch didn’t align with or address the flagged priorities from the community, so we are not moving forward with funding at this time.

Brice Dobry is a Senior Software Engineer at Hiro Systems. Prior to joining the team at Hiro, Brice had no prior experience with Blockchains. Today, he's 1 year in with the team at Hiro and at the forefront of building on Stacks. In our discussion, he talks about how he got started and how you can too. You can follow Brice on Twitter: @obycode.

Given the latest market developments and our commitment to transparency, we’re providing an update on the status of the Stacks Foundation and indexing related responses from other organizations operating within the Stacks Ecosystem.

Stacks 2.1 is right around the corner. All network upgrades are implemented only with approval through a community-wide vote, where STX holders can participate in deciding the future of the network. In this post, you'll find a guide to all-things voting for 2.1.

The winners of the Bitcoin Unleashed: Builders Edition hackathon have been announced! The three top projects include Options Vault, Synths on Stacks, and Deeds. Each project showcases unique and innovative uses for blockchain technology.

Phillip De Smedt is the co-founder of Arkadiko, a decentralized, non-custodial liquidity protocol where users can collaterize their STX tokens and borrow a stablecoin called USDA. In our discussion below, we learn more about how Phillip became a builder in the Stacks ecosystem, his belief in "building in the open," what Arkadiko unlocks for users, and more.

Consideration Advisory Boards (CABs) are part of an ongoing effort to further expand and refine the Stacks Improvement Proposal (SIP) process. For every SIP consideration, there is a CAB. The duty of the CAB is to utilize their expertise to judge the merit of a SIP.

Web3 Startup Lab's second cohort is now accepting applications. Join the Web3 Startup Lab community and accelerate your startup with guidance from industry experts and access to top investors in the space. As a bonus, we're also sharing some exciting updates from cohort 1 teams!

Mohamed Abdou is the founder of Pravica, a Stacks company that provides private, secure, end-to-end encrypted communications tools. All Pravica products are based on decentralized identities that are secure on the Bitcoin network - ensuring that identity is owned and controlled only by the user.

We’re introducing the Stacks Foundation objectives for Q4. The work we did in Q3 in combination with feedback from the community survey helped us set clear priorities for Q4.

Despite the challenges of building in a bear market, the Stacks ecosystem has continued to grow. Below we’ve outlined our performance against the our Q3 Objective and Key Results (OKRs).

On October 7th, Stacks Foundation hosted Bitcoin Unleashed: Builders Edition, a virtual event bringing together founders and developers to discuss all things building on Bitcoin. Attendees learned form industry leaders, built alongside the best developers in the space, and connected with fellow Bitcoiners form across the globe. All in, over 1,100 attendees tuned in between Hopin and YouTube.

At the Stacks Foundation, we work to surface and highlight these needs as well as point our own programming and resources at them. To do so, we surveyed the most active founders, employees, and developers from over 50 companies building on Stacks. We asked them about everything, from the most pressing technical improvements to their ideas for new resources.

On September 19, 2022 we 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.

In light of recent security reports via our Immunefi program, as well as congestion issues related to .BTC registrations, we took the opportunity to revisit our processes around detecting and communicating about the status of the Stacks blockchain.

Wilson Bright is the founder of BlockSurvey, a privacy-first platform (free of ads and trackers). Built on Stacks, BlockSurveys providers users with a stack of tools and audiences for data collection with ownership, privacy, and security at an affordable cost.

In partnership with Codecademy, we’re proudly revealing a new, completely free course for blockchain beginners: “An Introduction to Blockchain and Crypto.” The course will offer their over 45 million users (and anyone else that’s interested) a clear path to learning the basics about blockchain–no oaths or commitments to a specific protocol required!

In advance of the launch of Stacks 2.1, we will be releasing posts that provide a closer look at each of the key updates for the network. For a quicker breakdown of what’s coming, check out our first post about 2.1 updates. To kick off our deeper dive into the new updates, we’ll be talking more about the upcoming Stacking improvements in this post.

Chiente Hsu is the founder and CEO of ALEX, a DeFi platform on Bitcoin (via Stacks). ALEX provides liquidity bootstrapping for emerging token launches and aims to pave the way as a DeFi innovation that rewrites finance for Web 3. In our discussion, we learn more about what ALEX unlocks for users, how Chiente first got involved with crypto and the Stacks ecosystem, and more.

Today, QuickNode, the leading Web3 cloud platform for building blockchain-powered applications, has announced beta support for Stacks.

Ragnar Lifthrasir is the Founder of Trajan, a professional community for Web3. When Ragnar was increasingly frustrated with professional sites like LinkedIn and Glassdoor, he started brainstorming how professional representation could be different on Web3. In our conversation below, we talk about the vision and philosophy behind Trajan, the different problems that the project aims to solve, and the future of social capital and identity.

Orlando Cosme is the Founder of StackerDAO Labs and part of the 2nd Stacks Accelerator Cohort. StackerDAO Labs is a one-stop shop to create and manages DAOs secured by Bitcoin. In the below conversation, we learn more about his vision for the project, his experience in the Accelerator, and what's next for StackerDAO Labs.

We see the incredible potential of Bitcoin and are committed to building the best tools to make it more useful. Stacks is the top Web3 project on Bitcoin today, and this is just the beginning. We’re excited to introduce the latest tools and upgrades coming to the network in the Stacks 2.1 upgrade — updates that will strengthen the Stacks connection to Bitcoin.

We're working to raise the data the Stacks Ecosystem needs to prioritize upgrades and features in the near future.

John Ennis is a PhD Mathematician, former founder of an AI services company, and current founder/CEO of NeoSwap. In the below discussion with John, we learn about his vision for NeoSwap, an NFT liquidity platform that hosts "parties" enabling NFT trades and sales.

Dan Trevino is the Founder of Boom, a Stacks Residents Program project that became the first NFT platform on Stacks. In our discussion with Dan, we learn more about what inspired him to create Boom, what's coming soon for their team, and his journey as a leader and builder in the Stacks ecosystem.

The Stacks Web3 Startup Lab is a venture that includes a 2-month “bootcamp-style” pre-accelerator for Web3 startups. On Sunday, July 31st, 9 teams finally presented their learnings and work at the pre-accelerator's Demo Day. Meet the 9 teams below and learn a bit about each of their projects.

In our discussion with Aki, we learn more about how Discreet Log Contracts work and why they’re so important in bringing crypto into the mainstream, how he and his team got started working on this project, their vision, what they’ve learned, and what’s coming up next.

Albert Liang is the Founder of the Stacks Web3 Startup Lab, a venture that includes a 2-month “bootcamp-style” pre-accelerator for Web3 startups. In our discussion below, we talk about Albert’s vision for the pre-accelerator program, hear about his observations coming off of the first cohort’s 9-week immersion (and upcoming Demo Day), starting a company as a Web3 founder versus a Web2 founder, and more.

Audience and stakeholders of all different types need to know where the network is headed, so we set out to create one place where ‘roadmap’-related content can be collected and displayed. At a glance, you should be able to tell what major improvements are coming up as well as get a sense for smaller tooling, team, or other more specific updates.

It has been long known that crypto can be used in tandem with philanthropy to provide financial aid to marginalized groups. The Stacks Foundation has taken this a step further and created an innovative social good program that leverages yield from cryptocurrency, specifically STX, to fund thousands of women in Afghanistan seeking financial relief.

In a bear market, the Stacks Ecosystem is thriving while Stacks Foundation programming expands.

At the Stacks Foundation, June has been a whirlwind of exciting conferences, hackathons, workshops and meetups. Check out what we’ve been up to and find out how you can join us at future events.

The Mintery helps artists thrive with Bitcoin powered NFTs, to their mints are coming!

Today, we’re excited to announce that Blockchain.com, the world’s most popular crypto wallet, has added Wallet support for STX.With STX support already available on Blockchain.com’s Exchange, users will be able to toggle between the Wallet and Exchange to buy, sell, and earn STX rewards.

Now, Stacks community members have access to the flagship EmpireDAO location in NYC as an in-person resource. EmpireDAO serves as a co-working space but will also offer unique amenities like a recording studio, making it a welcoming space for artists and creators as well.

Today, thanks to the Stacks community, it gets an updated look and feel that better reflects the importance of the language and will serve it well as adoption continues to grow.

STX holders can now use STX tokens on the world’s largest eCommerce sites, including Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Home Depot.

Our first cohort of residents is focused on key areas of the ecosystem, including governance, DAOs, token community management, NFTs, and Stacking. Below is an update from each resident and their respective projects.

Decentralized Perpetual contracts and expiry futures markets have arrived in the Stacks network.

Upon community acceptance and launch of the next Stacks network upgrade, users can expect to bridge assets in and out of STX from 11 well-known projects such as Ethereum, Avalanche, Fantom, Celo, BNB, Polygon, Orbit, Klaytn, HECO, Icon, OEC, Polygon and xDAI.

Today, we’re happy to share they’ve listed Stacks application including ALEX, STXNFT, Megapont, Stackswap, Arkadiko, CityCoins, and HeyLayer.

STX is now available for withdrawal and deposit on the Liquid exchange, and trading will officially go live on Wednesday, April 28 at 3:00 PM JST.

Developers building on Bitcoin via Stacks can now integrate secure data feeds since RedStone has added support for the Stacks network! By integrating with RedStone, Stacks applications will be able to pair smart contracts with real-world data including price information such as volatility, order books, trading volumes, and events in the physical world.

With Stacks supported, developers can access raw data from a wide variety of KYVE-supported blockchains via an API to build out more diverse applications.

With our new Grants Dashboard up and running, we are excited to formally introduce the lynchpins for the program going forward, the Grants Ambassadors.

What was once a simple Github repo is now a fully supported program complete with ambassadors, docs and resources, and a revitalized application and payment system.

Stacks holders will be able to spend Stacks’ native token, STX, in real-time in nearly 60 countries including the USA, UK, 26 countries in Europe, and 29 countries in Latin America with more to be announced soon.

Immunefi, the leading bug bounty and security services platform for DeFi projects and decentralized networks, has opened its bug bounty program on Stacks. Up to $1,000,000 per bounty can be earned for eligible bugs.

MoonPay, the leading fiat onramp for crypto is now supporting Stacks.

Popular Korea-based D’CENT wallet, which features robust mobile apps, as well as biometric and hardware support, has rolled out support for Stacking.

By integrating Stacks with Creditcoin, a whole new pool of users in Africa will be able to leverage Bitcoin DeFi, giving them direct exposure to Stacking. Integration is expected to go live in Q3 2022.

Stackers, we’re back with another release of the Stacks Foundation quarterly board report and breakdown of our performance against the goals we set.

The #1 Web 3.0 project on Bitcoin has a nearly unquenchable thirst for new talent, this new portal will help builders bolster their teams.

Learn about where you can find Clarity smart contract auditing resources

Since the launch one year ago, seven chapters have launched across the globe in countries including Korea, Turkey, China, Pakistan, Japan, Russia, and India.

At the Stacks Foundation, we’re planning an exciting year of events to keep you connected and informed on all the pressing topics including DeFi, NFTs, GameFi, scalability, sustainability, interoperability, the future of Stacks, and so much more.

We're exploring paths for the next evolution of the Stacks Foundation Grants Program and need community leaders to help drive the process.

We're exploring the next evolution of the Stacks Foundation Grants Program, starting with how it might be well-suited for a DAO.

Stacking is now available on Binance, the largest exchange in the world in terms of the daily trading volume of cryptocurrencies.

We've updated it to reflect Stacks branding for consistency and simplicity.

Join the Stacks Ecosystem in supporting Bitcoin Core development via Brink

Learn how the Stacks Ecosystem is giving back to Bitcoin development this holiday season and beyond, plus, how you can get involved

Miners have adopted Stacks 2.05 to increase network capacity as Bitcoin DeFi and NFTs grow.

The end of the first Clarity Camp is upon us. Recently, nearly 100 students graduated from the first Clarity Camp cohort, ushering in a new batch of Bitcoin builders.

Connect with the Stacks Ecosystem during DCentral Miami and Art Basel

Bitcoin DeFi and Bitcoin NFTs continue to blossom thanks to the builders leveraging Stacks and the Clarity smart contract language.

This post offers visibility into the latest Stacks Foundation goals and priorities.

An important update on the highly-anticipated integration of Chainlink on Stacks, plus other oracle updates from the ecosystem

Open Art Source is one of the first startups to bridge real-world art and the digital NFT ecosystem. By tokenizing physical art, OAS will allow underrepresented artists and art collectors of all calibers to participate in a system that is currently inaccessible to them. At the same time, they are providing a platform that helps individuals secure their ownership of art onto the blockchain.

Take a look at some of the upcoming work to make stacks.co into a community managed property

Bitcoin DeFi continues rising as the Stacks Ecosystem sees Arkadiko (DIKO) quickly amass over $30M TVL within 24 hours of launch and now sits at 50m$. The launch was one of the community's most anticipated as Arkadiko leverages the unique relationship between Stacks and Bitcoin to deliver core Bitcoin DeFi building blocks as well as a novel new product to its users: self-repaying loans.

The strength, skill, and diversity of the ecosystem are the most important factors in Stacks’ long-term success. The Stacks Residence program recognizes this critical truth and officially launches today to create more opportunity for experts and leaders to explore and build out key aspects of the Stacks Ecosystem.

Last week in Clarity Universe, we took a look at some of the most promising NFT and metaverse use cases within the Stacks ecosystem. To follow it up this week we then dove deep into Bitcoin DeFi as Arkadiko’s massive launch ($50M TVL) had Clarity students are wondering how they can put their skills to the test in the quickly growing DeFi world.

The Stacks network could be upgraded to increase capacity by 2x -10x

This week, we’re excited to share that BitGo has added support for Stacks, creating the opportunity for larger token holders such as institutions to engage in Bitcoin DeFi via Stacking.

Spooky greetings as we're back to one of our favorite events of the year. Stackers, get your NFTs ready for our very first Stacks Halloween NFT Contest where creators of all kinds will be minting their spookiest NFT’s on Boom.

Stacks Korea is excited to announce that Stacks has been rated ‘AA-’ by Xangle

Seasons of the Bitcoin Metaverse

Stackers, another epic quarter is now in the books! This post offers visibility into the latest Stacks Foundation board meeting and provides you with our team’s performance against Q3 OKRs.

The sponsorship is the first of its kind, being paid directly with the bitcoin yield generated via Stacking on the Stacks blockchain.

What might be ahead for Stacks builders in the coming weeks and months?

This is a very special edition of the quarterly ecosystem updates as it comes after one of the most monumental stretches in Stacks history: a period that saw the community successfully launch Stacks 2.0 and start a new era of innovation for Bitcoin.

The Orbit Chain team will integrate the Stacks blockchain and turn their attention to creating bridges between Stacks’ Bitcoin-connected blockchain and Orbit Chain’s growing ecosystem of public blockchains.

You know an ecosystem is truly blossoming when it’s actually hard to compile quarterly updates and make them fit in a single email. It’s always amazing to see just how much gets done toward our mission of building a user-owned internet on Bitcoin every 3 months. I’m thankful for the many long days and late nights I see from the PBC team and from community members throughout the world as we collectively push toward the launch of Stacks 2.0. It will be an incredible moment for the Stacks ecosystem as well the crypto industry, as we bring a world of new possibilities to Bitcoin via apps and smart contracts.

Enter the Stacks Foundation 1st NFT giveaway where we raffle off 3 (three) Limited Edition Boomboxes NFTs each locked with 100K STX tokens.

As the world continues to grapple with the effects of Covid-19 and the United States battles racial injustice, I’ve been encouraged by our community’s dedication to building a more just and equitable society. These are difficult and uncertain times, but we remain committed to building a user-owned internet at a time it is more needed than ever. This work continued during the past quarter, highlighted by Stacks 2.0 development and continued decentralization efforts.

Being headquartered in the heart of NYC and with team and community spread globally, we’ve shared the concerns and uncertainty surrounding Covid-19. We started working from home in early March and worked with evangelists to keep community efforts safe. Blockstack PBC was fortunate to have raised $23M just six months ago and we continue to execute against our roadmap. Our mission of building a user owned internet is truly more relevant than ever.

Welcome to 2020! I’m really excited about what’s ahead for the Blockstack ecosystem this year. We can’t wait to share big updates in the coming weeks this January. First though, I wanted to take a minute to reflect on the previous year. 2019 was the year of growth for Blockstack. Apps built on Blockstack went from 46 to 300+, and awareness for Blockstack increased by 30x over 2019. We opened up our network to a broad audience, Stacks holders increased to 5000+ from ~800, and we introduced liquidity for Stacks.

Stacks and The City, Field Trip Edition

Q3 2019 continued Blockstack's momentum, resulting in more than 100 new apps being built during the quarter, making over 270 live today. Fundraising: More than 4,500 individuals and entities participated in Blockstack token offerings. We raised $23M+ in these offerings. Awareness: Blockstack awareness continued to grow, increasing by nearly 3x. We went from 125.9 million reach in Q2, to 341.9 million in Q3 (as measured by Awario).

Highlighting Some Of The Most Common Smart Contract Vulnerabilities And How Clarity Is Designed to Prevent Them

It's been a historic quarter for the Blockstack ecosystem: The Blockstack token offering became the first in US history to receive SEC qualification. We're proud to lead the industry toward regulatory clarity for crypto assets. The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Fox Business, and Yahoo! Finance shared more of the details. Q2 was one of our strongest quarters of growth. The total number of independent apps/startups built on Blockstack went from 86 to 165.

A new era of innovation on Bitcoin is upon us.

100+ Developers Are Learning To Write Smart Contracts For Bitcoin

Apps built on Blockstack grew from 46 at the beginning of Q1 to a total of 86 by the end (63 took part in the App Mining program). As we focus on spreading our message to developers, we improved the reach of our online mentions (as measured by Awario) from 3.7 million (Q3) and 11.9 million (Q4) to 43.1 million in Q1. We publicly filed our $50M token offering with the SEC and much more...

The Stacks blockchain has some major proposed upgrades, but the path forward relies on community stakeholders to push it through.

This is the first of many quarterly community updates. We’ll cover the last few months of developments across the Blockstack ecosystem and provide a lookahead for the months to come. For the longtime Blockstack enthusiasts, we hope you enjoy this new tradition. For the newcomers, including many who participated in our token sale, we welcome you. See the full community update below.

Today, the Stacks Korea Chapter is pleased to share that popular South Korean wallet provider, D'CENT, has added support for Stacks (STX).

Daemon Technologies partners with faculty at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to bring students a 6-week pilot course on Clarity.

The past few months have been seminal to the growth of Blockstack’s decentralized app ecosystem and community of open source developers. We’re excited to share updates on what we’ve accomplished in the last few months.

Over the last 5 months, the Stacks Foundation has invested heavily in growing the global Stacks community via the Stacks Chapters Program. The Chapters Program supports community leaders around the world in onboarding more builders and developers to the Stacks network, increasing access to STX tokens, and educating local communities on our mission of delivering a user-owned internet.

Q4 2018 was marked by the launch of our Stacks blockchain, unlocking $25M in capital upon reaching Milestone 1 and delivering on the technology we outlined in our 2017 token offering. Blockstack apps more than doubled last quarter, going from 17 to 46 - a trend we’re seeing continue into Q1. Please find the detailed updates...

Much of the work the Stacks Foundation does revolves around supporting builders in the Stacks Ecosystem, today I want to focus on how we help amplify their story.

I’m excited to share some of what we’ve been working on for the past few months at Blockstack. I’ve included an overview of some recent developments, an update on our hiring needs, and a look at the landscape of our technology and ecosystem. I hope you find this update valuable. As always, if you have any questions or feedback, I’d love to hear it.

We’re heavily focused on Clarity usage & education, expanding governance efforts, and growing the global community of Stacks builders & token holders

Today, we’re excited to share that Blockchain.com will continue its support for Stacks by listing the asset on their Exchange. The listing is now live and the initial listing includes STX-USDT, STX-USDC and STX-USD pairs.

Win a $150 Stacks store credit

Clarity Universe brings together everything you need to be successful with Clarity smart contracts and makes it easier and faster for you to learn the language

As one player in a decentralized ecosystem, it’s important for us to articulate what others, especially the community and other entities, can expect from us.

In our ongoing efforts to remain transparent and open, I’m excited to share a recap of the most recent Stacks Foundation Board Meeting and the communication right before and after it.

InfStones provides services to institutions such as Binance, imToken, BitGo, Circle, and many other leading enterprises around the globe.

Blockchain.com is one of the most established and long running crypto companies that has helped build the foundations of crypto access since the beginning.

A layer for Bitcoin

DeFi for Bitcoin takes another step into the limelight today as Injective Protocol announces they’ll be integrating with Stacks to give users access to new Bitcoin-based derivatives.

An internet where you own your creations and your connections is coming soon.

With over one million users and 70,000 merchants already onboard, Paycoin is a rapidly growing player in the Korean market with designs on further expansion.

As the Grants Program continues to grow, we recognize how important it is provide grantees with an application interface that is simple and easy to use. Over the last two quarters, we've invested in improving our backend operations, as well as enabling grant payments in STX tokens. Today, we're thrilled to debut the new Stacks Grants App, which streamlines grant payments and distribution (in both $STX and USD!).

Last quarter, we took a closer look at Ryder, Risidio, Gaideo, and the STX Mining Bot—Stacks grantees tackling key issues within the Stacks ecosystem, such as decentralized identity, decentralized video streaming, NFTs, and accessible mining.

As I was reflecting on this milestone and Stacking in general, I wanted to zoom in a bit on a partner to Stacks (and Stacking) that deserves a lot of credit for the rise of these new entrants to the ecosystem: OKCoin.

Joining Stacks MENA and Stacks Pakistan are 3 new chapters that we're proud to introduce: Stacks Turkey, Stacks Korea, and Stacks China. Each of these chapters is committed to building a better internet on Bitcoin in their own unique ways and providing new opportunities for both individuals and organizations to get further involved.

We're thrilled to announce the launch of the Stacks Accelerator, an intensive, three-month program aimed at supporting teams building on Bitcoin via the Stacks blockchain. The program is led by Trevor Owens (entrepreneur and author, whose startups have raised over $100M in venture funding) and backed by the Stacks Foundation, Hiro Systems, Daemon Technologies, and Freehold. The accelerator has raised an initial fund of $4M USD to support over 100 early-stage startup teams.

STX have been listed on the Upbit KRW market, a top digital asset exchange in Korea. This news comes at an opportune time with the Stacks Korea chapter also launching this week.

Thanks to the Stacks Grants community's cooperation and feedback over various 1:1 calls, roundtables, and webinars, we were able to make several improvements to the Stacks Grants Program. This post will break down our progress thus far, as well as provide updated policies and processes designed to make the Grants experience as fair and as seamless as possible.

Stacking is a super power for the Stacks Ecosystem

We’re excited to continue expanding the Stacks Foundation team to work collectively towards our mission of building a user owned internet. We’re delighted to introduce Meltem Demirors, the latest addition to the Stacks Foundation Board. She joins current board directors Zavain Dar, Rodolfo Gonzalez, and Brittany Laughlin.

Apps and smart contracts on Bitcoin

Apps and smart contracts on Bitcoin

This week, we’re welcoming three new additions to the Stacks Foundation team! Say hello to: Ecosystem Development Lead, Jenny Mith, Communications Associate, Emily Patel, and Growth Lead, Louise Payawal. Our new team members come to us from a wide range of backgrounds, from linguistics and philosophy to growing developer and crypto communities.

OKEx’s move further expands the number of locations around the world where people and institutions can easily purchase STX.

In our second Stacks Grants Demo Day, we watched grantees present a range of projects, from community growth initiatives to DeFi opportunities on Stacks. We learned about Stacks Turkey’s plans to expand its rapidly growing community and Scogé, a digital fashion brand. We also learned about new governance tools (a bot for decentralized Discord moderation, a Code of Conduct for the Stacks ecosystem, and a voting mechanism for the community) as well as ‘Wish List’ grants for a fungible token standard, a DEX, and a collateralized BTC asset on Stacks. Read this blog and watch the demo below to learn more.

The Stacks Foundation is working to realize our mission of delivering a user owned internet. Through the work of the community, the support of our board, and our team, we are able to make that vision a reality.

Welcome to the second blog of this series, dedicated to getting to know some of the grantees from the Stacks Grant Program.

The Stacks Grant program has gotten off to a strong start with 18 grantees in over 13 countries building for the Stacks ecosystem.

Blockchain.com is one of the most established and long running crypto companies that has helped build the foundations of crypto access since the beginning.

The Stacks Foundation is pleased to announce that Upbit, the largest digital asset exchange in Korea, will be listing the STX token.

Today, the Stacks 2.0 Mainnet goes is live!

We’re excited to announce the launch of Stacks Grants using Grant.io!

Our mission is to build a user owned internet powered by the Stacks Blockchain. Today we’re excited to introduce a new visual identity that unites our work with others in the ecosystem building towards that future. Our new logo and branding now reflects a more colorful future and the foundations on the Stacks blockchain.

We’re pleased to share the highlights from the first Stacks Foundation Meet the Board call, featuring Foundation Capital partner Rodolfo Gonzalez. On December 4th, we hosted a live chat with Rodolfo to answer questions from the community about what he sees as the vision for Stacks in the future, the role of the board, and his take on what’s next in crypto. We’ve pulled out the highlights here but recommend the best place to hear it all is in the video recording

The Stacks Grants beta is in full swing with over $36,000 of approved funding in USD across 13 proposals!

Our mission is to build a user owned internet powered by the Stacks Blockchain. Today we’re excited to introduce a new visual identity that unites our work with others in the ecosystem building towards that future. Our new logo and branding now reflects a more colorful future and the foundations on the Stacks blockchain.

Earn regular bitcoin rewards by supporting Stacks 2.0 consensus

The Stacks Grants Program launched in Beta on September 3rd, 2020. We will host monthly retrospectives to share updates and share progress. This it the update for September, the first month of the program.

We’re excited to welcome Ryan Arndt and Raffi Sapire as new team members at the Stacks Open Internet Foundation.

Today, we're excited to announce the launch of Stacks Grants, a new program to fund ecosystem development to build a user owned internet powered by the Stacks Blockchain. Initiatives that are the right fit for Stacks Grants include development of infrastructure, tools and services, community resources, research, and education.

We’re excited to share our participation in the Flipside Data Cooperative, an initiative for partner networks to publicly share on-chain activity. Our community can now easily explore token flows, watch network activity, and track benchmarks to peers in the ecosystem.

The Blockstack Governance Working Group is a community run organization supporting governance upgrades.

Learn more about the FCAS score Flipside Crypto has given STX for the health of the ecosystem.

Today, the Stacks Foundation, a Delaware nonprofit, is kicking off independent operations, announcing key team and board members, and initial funding.

For the second year in a row, the Electric Capital Report shows that Stacks is the #1 Web3 project on Bitcoin as measured by developer activity, and is a top-30 crypto project (at #28) as measured by total developers.