Result
Achieved. You can use stacks-dump or status.sh to inspect the chain history to see for yourself that there were no periods of inactivity or periods of competing deep forks.
Rollover. Stacks 2.1 issue board is here if you want to follow along
Partial rollover. Code is available here for anyone who wants to deploy it themselves, Foundation still has plans to host or resource an easy subdomain registrar.
The Stacks Accelerator officially launched on April 13th, with the first cohort having kicked off on May 24th.
Result
Since the start of Q2, at least 30 new teams have begun building on Stacks, with 25 going through the Accelerator and several others working on grants.
We saw 40 new contributors per repository over core Stacks repositories. These are: stacks-blockchain, stacks-blockchain-api, stacks/connect, stacks-wallet, stacks-wallet-web, stacks.js, docs, explorer, gaia, clarity-repl, clarinet.
Great progress by several teams, we expect a full-featured DEX to launch in Q3!
An early solution is now available thanks to Pascal and work to integrate Chainlink began in earnest.
Content and new tools have already been created for Clarity and are being tested by a group of students in Hong Kong and by invited technology partners.
Grant issues #52, #61, #121, #139, and #167 are just some of the dev tools that were either funded or worked on this past quarter.
We’re thrilled to have longtime community member, Marvin Janssen, join the team!
Result
Rollover. TVL currently sits at $385M, we’ll continue to make Stacking more accessible through key integrations, partnerships, and support of builders.
4 added in Q2. InfStones, OKEx, PlanBetter, XVerse
South Korean e-commerce protocol, Paycoin is enabling STX payments at major retailers and music experience collective, Brownies & Lemonade is working on a Stacking-based membership model for their community.
Rollover. There is progress here and we may broaden the KR in Q3 slightly to securing a deal for STX to appear in a mainstream app, but this or similar is still a goal.
Rollover. 354,222 STX holders - may adjust metric over time to ‘active’ wallets or similar.
1,162,624 - A 30% increase from Q12021. This is the overall reach of STX mentions on Telegram.
Rollover. We’ll be publishing deep-dive case studies on both the Stacks Grants Program and Stacks Accelerator Program this quarter, as well as end-to-end material covering the advantages of Clarity.
Result
This quarter, we officially welcomed Stacks Korea, Stacks China, and Stacks Turkey.
Two chapters have deployed their own Stacking pools so far. The remaining Chapters are brainstorming new solutions in light of more complicated regulations in their regions.
Stacks Advocates will be getting their first payout by July 11th!
The Stacking APY is the result of many variables - we decided to deprioritize this effort after seeing mining was healthy. Going forward, we'll primarily focus on increasing smart contract usage on the network as a way to boost Stacking rewards.
Much foundational work has been laid through work by Hozz and Harold on integrating tools like SourceCred and PolicyKit to help community members come to a fair and equitable consensus on group decisions.
Rollover. The high-level design discussion is here, but the implementation is still in progress.
Longtime community leader, Juliet Oberding, attended the most recent board meeting and reported her observations to the community at the last Stacks Town Hall. We are now collaborating to flesh out a more structured process for ratifying the Community Board Seat and will share a draft with the community in Q3. Also see Juliet’s work on a community Code of Conduct.
Several community representatives have volunteered to lead Consideration Advisory working groups and will be kicking off their first public meetings soon.