Exciting times for the Stacks ecosystem! Users of Stacks see multiple new use cases move to Stacks, while builders now get a chance to continue their journey toward becoming pioneers in the Stacks ecosystem with a newly introduced Stacks builder program. Let’s dive into this week’s Stacks Snacks.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Velar launches its perpetual futures decentralized exchange on Stacks.

• The Stacks Foundation launches its builder program called “Stacks Ascent”, where you can turn your code into a company.

• The Stacks Developers X account announces all the Buidl Battle builder competition winners.

• Leading DeFi Educator and key opinion leader DeFi Edge weighs in on the success of Stacks.

• Stacks Foundation announces Bitcoin Las Vegas side event.

😋 Other Tasty Content

• STX stacked reaches an all-time-high in TVL, reported by Signal21.

• Attend the upcoming Stacks virtual event where leaders in the ecosystem discuss the future roadmap and plans.

• Hermetica shares it’s the first trading pair for Velar’s Bitocin-native PerpDEX on Stacks.

• Buidl Battle winner Rozar shares his Blaze protocol on the Leather Lounge livestream.