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.
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