🍿 Stacks Builders Put Bitcoin on the Map & Bitcoin DeFi News

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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🍿 Stacks Snacks

• 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.