🍿 Nakamoto Testnet v.2 Now Code Complete

The Stacks core engineers proudly share that the Nakamoto Testnet Release (branded as Neon) is now code complete! Moreover, an in-depth article on the technical milestones and release strategy for Nakamoto & sBTC was released, as the Stacks community prepares for an exciting end of 2023!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali reveals Stacks Nakamoto testnet (Neon) to be code-complete with an expected testnet launch end of December.

• Mitchell Cuevas shares technical milestones & release strategy updates for Nakamoto & sBTC

• Bitcoin DeFi Protocol ALEX launches its ALEX Launchpad Beta Testing program.

• The Stacks community votes for their favorite community members and best projects in the ecosystem. Listen back to the 2023 Stackies.

• Stacks nominated for Milk Road Altcoin of the year. Vote now!

• Web3 Venture Studio “Thesis” shares thesis on Bitcoin & Bitcoin layers.

• Bitcoin L2 DeFi protocol Velar reveals H1 2024 Roadmap.

😋 Other tasty content

• Oracle Network Pyth’s Price Feeds are now fully supported on Stacks.

• Nakamoto and sBTC launch communications and events planning for 2024

• Investment Firm VanEck publishes 15 Crypto Predictions for 2024, including Stacks.

• Bitget Wallet announces support for Bitcoin Decentralized Finance project ALEX.

• Flagship Analyst publishes an article on the top DeFi projects on Stacks.

• Bitcoin L2 DeFi protocol Hermetica publishes an article on “the Turkey problem” for DeFi and how Hermetica fixes this.