Another big week for the Stacks community! This week’s Stacks Snacks highlights the Spartan Group Bitcoin L2 report, diving deep into the layers of Bitcoin's blossoming ecosystem, and Electric Capitals highly anticipated yearly crypto developers report, showing more experienced crypto developers taking an interest in Stacks.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• CoinDesk announces the release of The Spartan Group’s Bitcoin Layers report.

• Electric Capital publishes the yearly crypto developers report with Stacks established developers being up 51%.

• Hiro Systems releases A Developer’s Guide to Bitcoin DeFi.

• STX20 celebrates one million transactions on STX20 since launch, with sOrdinals closing in on 200,000 inscriptions.

• The largest DeFi protocol on Stacks, ALEX, celebrates its 2 year anniversary.

• Liquid Stacking provider StackingDAO announces integration with Xverse.

• ALEX DeFi reveals Liquid Stacking on Stacks with LISA, in partnership with Xverse and Ryder.

• Megapont announces the MegaDAO, a fully on-chain DAO built on Stacks.

😋 Other tasty content

• Pantera Capital releases letter named “The Year Ahead” with the resurgence of Bitcoin due to the rise of L2s as prediction for 2024.

• Binance Research lists Stacks as notable Bitcoin project with their upcoming sBTC solution to create a decentralized, non-custodial, Bitcoin L2.

• Leather integrates native SIP10 token swaps in the app powered by ALEX.

• Xverse integrates STX, STX20, and SIP-10 token multisig Asigna.

• Check out the updated Bankless guide to Stacks.