With the successful Instantiation step of the Nakamoto upgrade behind us (congratulations to all once more!) the Stacks Foundation released changes to Nakamoto's Activation timeline.
Despite these changes, rollout has started, which means that all locked STX is now unstacked. So, make sure to restack your STX before Monday to continue earning BTC rewards! Let’s dive into this week’s Stacks Snacks.
🍿 Stacks Snacks
The Stacks Foundation shared changes in the Nakamoto Activation timeline, with 8 weeks of additional development time expected.
3 days left on the (re)Stacking Day giveaway Stacking campaign and before the new stacking cycle starts. Are you stacking STX to earn BTC yield? Register here and win prizes!
Stacks hits record high in active users as interest in Bitcoin DeFi grows, reported by Cointelegraph.
ALEX introduces Bitcoin L1 to L2 Cross Chain SIP10 & Runes Bridge for the number one meme token on Stacks, Welsh.
Liquid Stacking Provider LISA is listed on DeFi Llama with now $15M in TVL.
Stacks Educator Tim shares StackingDao peaking at 16M+ deposits against 2M withdrawals in April.
StackingDAO announces partnership with Hermetica, where the stSTX earn vault by Hermetica means new yield sources and point opportunities.
Hermetica teases Monday 6th as reveal date for their next release.
Stacks Bitcoin L2 DEX Bitflow opens up Rune AMM Waitlist.
😋 Other tasty content
In light of (re)Stacking day, multiple Stacks content creators broke down Stacking STX, such as WalP|Ξ|k, Sly Odogwu, Roman K, DeKaDub, and others!
The Stacks Latin America Community hosted multiple events in Buenos Aires, San Salvador, Santiago, and other cities!
Stacks Australia held a Bitcoin builders meetup in Brisbane.
Figment is organizing a Stacks webinar called “Staking on Stacks L2: A New Era for Bitcoin” on May 14th with Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali.
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