This Week: Decentralized Finance protocols on Bitcoin share exciting news and a recently released Bitcoin ecosystem map shows the impact the Stacks ecosystem has had on the Bitcoin economy.
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Trust Machines shares Sora Ventures Bitcoin utility map, with Stacks entities like ALEX, Bitflow, Zest, Stackswap, Gamma, and others taking up most of builders ecosystem.
ALEX Lab rebrands to the Finance Layer on Bitcoin, launching Bitcoin Lab ecosystem fund.
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol on L2 Stacks surpasses 17.5K waitlist milestone for BTC swaps.
DeFi protocol Velar integrates the Xverse app on both web and mobile.
Layer 1 Foundation reports ALEX Lab proposing BRC-20 Oracle integration framework
😋 Other tasty content
>500K developer community EasyA announces 60 days of Stacks developer challenge to be released next Tuesday.
Physical Wallet Ryder announces Co-Founder Louise to be speaking at Bitcoin Unleashed in London.
The Stacks London community shares appreciation for everyone attending the developer sessions, focused on onboarding more developers to Stacks.
Hero Gamer publishes application form for De-Grant pilot, a program designed by the community for the community to receive support.
Publius.btc shares ideas for sBTC startups.
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