🍿 The Stacks Nakamoto Release Rollout Has Begun

Last Monday, the first of two hard forks that will bring the Stacks layer the Nakamoto upgrade went live thanks to miners, node operators, exchanges, Signers, and more. This means there’s only one step left before Nakamoto’s fast blocks, Bitcoin finality, and other improvements are available to everyone!

Nakamoto is following a two-step rollout plan, the next major step being “activation,” slated for May 15-29. 🟧

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• The Stacks Foundation releases a surprise commemorative NFT collection to celebrate the Nakamoto rollout and Bitcoin halving.

• The Stacks ecosystem hosted the Building on Bitcoin Virtual Halving Event. Watch back the full recording on YouTube.

• EasyA is hosting a Stacks hackathon this weekend, listed as one of Harvard’s top career advancement opportunities for students.

• Zest relaunches on Stacks Mainnet with a new points system.

• LearnWeb3 releases Stacks Bitcoin Developer Degree.

• Yala announces a strategic partnership with the Stacks Foundation.

• Stacks takes a 1.25% of all social activity across all cryptocurrencies.

😋 Other tasty content

• The community celebrates the Nakamoto rollout start with Ignas, Louise, Roman K, Yanshu, Jack Binswitch, DeKaDub, Bitflow, Blockdaemon, George Grant, Defi.btc, Walpek, Reubs, House of Chimera, Jake Pahor, and many others!

• Bitcoin builders all over the world celebrate the Bitcoin halving, with Cusco, Lisbon, Santiago, Nairobi, and many other countries!

• Stacks gets featured on Cointelegraph with Stacks Foundation product lead Andre Serrano.

• Muneeb speaks to CoinDesk about the Stacks Nakamoto Release and building on Bitcoin.

• Blockworks releases article about the Stacks Nakamoto Upgrade unfolding a new era for the Bitcoin L2.