🍿 Onboarding Entrepreneurs to Bitcoin With Bitcoin Frontier Fund & Bitcoin Startup Lab

This Week: Bitcoin startup and accelerator programs are gearing up for their next cohorts, while large developer communities are getting onboarded to building with Bitcoin on Layer 2 Stacks.

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Former Stacks Foundation Grantee DLC Link announces $2 Million pre-seed funding round.

• Bitcoin Frontier Fund announces last month to apply for the Bitcoin startup accelerator program.

• Bitcoin Startup Lab announces new cohort submissions now open, calling out all Stacks builders to join.

• Stacks Improvement Proposal community call host announces series on sBTC education starting today at 12PM EST.

• 500K+ developer community EasyA releases “building with Stacks” challenges in mobile application.

😋 Other tasty content

• ALEX, recently rebranded to the finance layer for Bitcoin, teases use cases that are build on the ALEX layer: cross-chain bridge between Ethereum, Bitcoin and Stacks and cross-chain swap, Liquid Stacking and more.

• Xverse shares Stacking cycle #69 started this Friday.

• sBTC Product Lead Andre Serrano discusses what’s ahead for sBTC during the latest Stacks X spaces.

• 👉 Are you a developer or user that wants to try out sBTC? Sign up for the testnet program here.