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😋 Stacks Snacks
A reminder for every staker: you need to restake your STX after the PoX-5 hard fork to keep earning BTC rewards. If you haven't yet, now's the time.
Community DeGrants Cohort 4 is here. The program drew more than 200 applications (largest response to date) and Community Stewards selected six projects to share in funding. Meet the cohort.
Stacks trended on X this week after activating the PoX-5 hardfork.
Castle Labs on The Birth of Bitcoin-Native Finance. Bitcoin keeps getting treated as a reserve asset, yet it still earns nothing, and they lay out how to change that.
👀 Other Tasty Content
A good thread on how Stacks is building the capital market for Bitcoin.
Bitfinex looks at where Bitcoin yield actually comes from, now that the question has shifted from whether BTC can earn yield to how.
Stacks Labs CEO Alex Miller joined Fireblocks to discuss building onchain capital markets at the Block House virtual event hosted by Wrapped.
Muneeb’s quick thoughts on the vision for Stacks 👀
Happy staking, Stakers 😉
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.