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😋 Stacks Snacks
Anchorage Digital is building Bitcoin Staking support on Stacks. Institutions can fund a BTC Bond from their Anchorage account, earn weekly BTC rewards, and reclaim principal at maturity, with Bitcoin held in Anchorage's institutional custody at a federally chartered bank ⚓︎
Zest's Bitcoin Collateral Vaults are now live: deposit native BTC into a self-custodial vault on Bitcoin L1 and borrow Ethereum USDC against it, with your Bitcoin under your custody. Even WallStreetBets noticed 👀
📆 Coming Up
Alex Miller joins the Bitcoin Treasuries Conference panel "When DATs and DeFi Collide" with Jeff Park (ParaFi Capital) and Bill Barhydt (Abra).
Stacks is at Korea Blockchain Week. Muneeb will keynote "Bitcoin's Next Frontier: From Store of Value to Productive Capital" on the BitGo stage.
Set a reminder for next week’s Stacks Monthly Ecosystem Update.
👀 Other Tasty Content
Whale activity is climbing on Zest's Stacks market. One position added $490,000 in borrows while earning 0.82% APY net 🍊
BoostX is bringing Bitcoin Tags to X, tags like STX₿, sBTC₿, and ZEST₿ that surface a live Bitflow swap quote on hover. The team is joining a space today where you can learn more 🚀
Rand Group makes the case for Stacks as the leading Bitcoin L2.
Happy staking 🟠
Stacks is a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts. It enables decentralized applications to use Bitcoin as an asset and settle transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Stacks exists to unlock Bitcoin’s full potential as the largest, most valuable, durable, and decentralized asset. Learn more here.