Stacks Snacks - A Bitcoin Summer

Happy Friday, snackers! This week we bring you the latest news from Xverse, ALEX, the world of sBTC, and a roundup of thought leadership pieces spanning Bitcoin DeFi, rollups, Ordinals and NFTs, and more. Got a story for next week’s issue? Submit a link here.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• The Path for Bitcoin Innovation: Rollups & Stacks

• This week in sBTC: Bitcoin Summer is Here

• OxResearch with Muneeb Ali: Is Bitcoin DeFi overhyped or just getting started?

• ZestProtocol’s Tycho Onnasch explains key DeFi use cases

• ALEX’s exciting journey with Bitcoin and the path forward

• Xverse + OKX: stack $STX and earn BTC right from the OKX wallet

• Chain Debrief: How Stacks is Scaling Bitcoin with Smart Contracts

• Trust Machines: Witnessing the Rise of Bitcoin Ordinals & NFTs

😋 Other tasty content

• The Stacks mini course available now on LearnWeb3

• $STX makes CoinMarketCap’s list of trending tokens

• Altcoin Buzz: 3 Coins that Grew 40% in the Last Week

• CoinDesk: BTC Crosses $30K and Bitcoin Layer 2 Stacks Gains 15%

_{This newsletter is curated by the Stacks Ecosystem Comms Working Group.}