As Stacks Core Engineers focus on boosting throughput for Bitcoin's leading L2 post-Nakamoto upgrade, a new initiative, Bitcoin L2 Labs, emerges with a mission to onboard more Core Developers. At the same time, the Stacks developer community gears up to build the next DeFi powerhouse app at Harvard University. Let’s dive in!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Head of Product Andre Serrano announces Bitcoin L2 Labs to advance core development for the leading Bitcoin L2 Stacks.

• Muneeb shares excitement regarding $20M new Stacks entity Bitcoin L2 Labs.

• EasyA introduces the speakers of the upcoming EasyA Stacks Harvard Hack, starting this weekend.

• Stacks Asia Foundation celebrates its latest partnership with Hex Trust.

• Velar amplifies continuation of boosted VELAR rewards for several pools.

😋 Other tasty content

• Decentralized Finance educator Stacy Muur weighs in on the Stacks Nakamoto Upgrade.

• Velar announces to sponsor Building on Bitcoin Bangkok with the Stacks Foundation.

• Hermetica shares latest statistics on APY for stablecoin USDh including tutorial on how to do so.

• Grayscale shares additional information on this year’s released Stacks Trust.