🍿 Institutional sBTC Investors Revealed & New DeFai Features

After a big week for Stacks, with a quarter of a billion in Bitcoin now deployed via sBTC, the Stacks ecosystem builders are picking up steam once again. New community efforts, decentralized finance AI features, and… STX lands on the moon? It seems as though everything is happening on Stacks. Let’s dive in!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Decrypt shares latest institutional sBTC investors, including Jump Crypto, Asymmetric Research, SNZ and many others. The Stacks Asia Foundation and leading DeFi voices such as Chase, Stacy Muur, Ndidi, and many others weigh in on the news.

• Velar reports on six new community-deployed sBTC pools now active on Velar within six days of launch.

• LunarCrush successfully launches Nakamoto 1 treasury hunt, with over $250,000 in BTC, sBTC, and STX now on the actual moon for someone to collect.

• ALEX introduces new ALEX AI tool to onboard new users to Bitcoin DeFi.

• Leading universal blockchain explorer Blockchair integrates Stacks.

• Bitcoin Liquidity Protocol Granite is rewarding early users with a sBTC Pioneer NFT, teasing more early user rewards.

😋 Other Tasty Content

• The Stacks ecosystem shares orange sticky note covering why Stacks is the leading Bitcoin L2.

• Stacks Asia Foundation executive director Kyle Ellicott joined Anthony Pompliano on stage at New York Bitcoin Investor Week.

• ALEX DEX reports on ongoing incentivized growth campaign “Surge 3”.

• Bitflow shares first winners of ongoing "DOG Go To Bitflow” Runes contest.