by Louise Ivan on February 17, 2022

TL;DR Stacks Chapters were introduced in 2021. We have 7 chapters total, all of which have helped promote Stacks in their respective communities. This blog post breaks down the accomplishments of each chapter and introduces three new chapters to the ecosystem.

• Stacks Korea brought long-lasting ecosystem partnerships
• Stacks Turkey increased STX access with various local exchange listings
• Stacks China increased awareness through various publications
• Stacks Pakistan brought in new smart contract developers
• New Chapters sprouted in Japan, Russia, and India

It's been almost a year since we introduced the launch of Stacks Chapters, where life-long community members become leaders to accelerate the Stacks ecosystem’s local community growth and development efforts. Since the launch, seven chapters have launched across the globe in countries including Korea, Turkey, China, Pakistan, Japan, Russia, and India. Our official Chapters effectively mobilized their local communities around the Stacks north star metric and helped increase STX access worldwide. To celebrate, we compiled a few of the most interesting highlights to recap the remarkable year.

We've said this before and will say this again, excitement in the Stacks Korean community is at an all-time high. This is in thanks to Stacks Korea and its continuous efforts of providing new ways to learn and share the promise of Stacks in extending Bitcoin's technology within the local community. Since its inception, Korea has grown its community to nearly 6,000 dedicated Stackers.

Stacks Turkey has proven itself as the leading exchange partnership community in the ecosystem through its coordinated efforts that led to two successful local exchange listings with Bitexen and BTCTurk Pro. Currently, Stacks Turkey is one the biggest crypto communities in the region along with AVAX and LINK.

This year Stacks China laid down Stacks fundamentals in the region by translating Stacks documentation and media into Mandarin and making key appearances on major Chinese forums and publications.

As the developer talent portal in the ecosystem, Stacks Pakistan proved to be an influential community in rallying a pool of new Clarity developers. For the past few months, Stacks Pakistan has gathered 400 dedicated community members and secured jobs for more than ten developers for various entities in the ecosystem such as Tontine Trust.

Coming into 2022, we have three new chapters joining that we are proud to introduce: Stacks Japan, Stacks Russia, and Stacks India. Each of these chapters are committed to finding new ways to make the full utility of Bitcoin available and accessible in their local community and we are excited to introduce you to some of the new chapter leaders in each region.

D is a crypto enthusiast and DeFi fan who took on the initiative to lead Stacks Japan at the beginning of October 2021. While the community is still a new frontier for Stacks, t has quickly amassed a strong and dedicated community. The chapter seeks to localize the Stacks ecosystem with the help of its growing community. By tailoring content to various ecosystem stakeholders such as investors, developers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and artists, D believes the chapter can create a self-sustainable community with the ultimate goal of becoming a DAO.

Long-time community members Aleksei and MadAdm join the Chapter program as the new leads of Stacks Russia. The chapter has already managed to start the organic growth of its local investor community by holding several AMAs with famous crypto exchanges including Gate.io and OKEX.com. They encouraged new community members to get involved in order to work towards the project's collective success.

India chapter leads, Saurabh and Abhijoy started their journey as passionate community members. Abhijoy was an avid Stacks follower since 2017 after watching Muneeb’s TEDx talk “Welcome to the New Internet.” He later introduced his good friend Saurabh to the community in 2020. After the Stacks mainnet launch last February, both took the initiative to build the local Chapter being ardent believers of a user-owned internet. Together they are driving the localization of Stacks in the region.

The Stacks India Chapter is focused on nurturing developers and creating a collaborative atmosphere for its community members. They have already engaged influencers, developers, entrepreneurs, exchanges, and investors with deep-dive discussions about Stacks. They frequently push Hindi updates through their local channels and as a result, their investor channel has started to see organic growth and their first-ever AMA gathered many participants.

Interested in building a Chapter in your local region? Get in touch with the community that's building a user-owned internet on Bitcoin at community@stacks.org.