🍿 Block Rewards Proposal Discussion & De-Grants Cohort Submissions Closing

As the community prepares for the Nakamoto release, builders are ramping up their efforts to release sBTC on testnet. This is all happening while Hiro Hacks and the Decentralized Grants program keep the builders building. Let’s dive into this week’s Stacks snacks!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Governance Resident announces 45+ submissions for Decentralized Grants program.

• Stacking DAO teases the release of liquid stacking for Stacks with stSTX.

• The Stacks Foundation shares date to discuss the proposal to increase block rewards for STX miners.

• Submissions for the Startup Lab Accelerator Program are closing within the next few days.

• Hiro System announces the Hiro Hacks for Bitcoin builders, starting December 1st.

😋 Other tasty content

• Hiro Systems shares comparison between sBTC and wBTC.

• Hermetica Finance highlights Outlier Ventures Bitcoin thesis.

• Bitcoin Decentralized Finance protocol Bitflow teases the integration of sBTC.

• Stacks Foundation Director of Activation Mitchell publishes article on why the Stacks layer sometimes skip Bitcoin blocks?