🍿 ALEX Bitcoin DEX Launch & Stacks Apps Set 2025 Goals

Happy new year stackers 🧡🥂 

With 2024 behind us, leading Stacks startups are reflecting on a year of growth and innovation while gearing up for 2025 with ambitious new goals. From enhancing Bitcoin trading experiences to launching a Stacks L2 perpetual futures DEX, and enabling sBTC to be used as collateral for borrowing and staking stablecoins, their plans are set to energize believers in activating the Bitcoin economy through Stacks. Let’s take a closer look!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• ALEX releases the Bitcoin DEX, including Bitcoin asset swaps.

• Stacks DEX ALEX releases Surge 2 Voting & Staking with 2M in ALEX Surge Rewards.

• Hermetica releases multi-chain connections for Stacks and Bitcoin.

• Hermetica reports on 18% APY for the first week of 2025 on USDh.

• Bitflow Founder Dylan shares his goals and plans for Bitlfow in 2025.

😋 Other Tasty Content

• Zest Protocol highlights their decision to build on Stacks and reflects on its success.

• Hermetica recaps the year 2024, including releasing stablecoin USDh on Stacks.

• Stacking DAO recaps the year 2024 and looks ahead at 2025, including stSTXbtc, earning BTC streamed directly to your wallet.

• ALEX shares a full 2024 review and preview of 2025, including BTC/Stable Liquidity.

• Velar rounds up the year 2024 with a thread on X.