Big news for Bitcoin builders! This week highlights the launch of N21, a go-to-market prep program supporting startups with everything from technology to fundraising. Meanwhile, other builders celebrate successful pre-seed funding rounds, TVL milestones, and technical improvements.
🍿 Stacks Snacks
Bitcoin DEX Bitflow raises $1.3M in pre-seed funding to continue building critical infrastructure for Bitcoin DeFi.
Stacks Foundation Executive Director Mitchell Cuevas announces N21, a “launch readiness” program for teams preparing for the Stacks Nakamoto release.
Arkadiko teases the launch of Arkadiko 2.0.
OKX shares Bitcoin 2024 Outlook, featuring Stacks as scaling solution and ALEX as finance layer for Bitcoin.
StackingDAO celebrates $20M in TVL.
Hiro Systems reports to have reduced block ingestion time for the Stacks API by 85-95%.
😋 Other tasty content
Blockworks highlights that DeFi is Bitcoin’s missing ingredient.
ALEX Founder Chiente Hsu gives her thoughts on the latest Bitcoin L2 report by Spartan, as well as the OKX report.
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Hermetica Finance highlights the Stacks L2 developer statistics with established devs up 51% YoY.
sBTC Product Lead Andre Serrano published The Opportunity for Stacks via the Bowtied Bull newsletter.
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