Stacks Snacks - This Week's News & Stories

We’re back with more to snack on this week! Check out the week’s big stories and ecosystem news below, plus some extra recommended reading.

Until next week!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Stacks reached 100,000 block height

• …and has now officially deployed over 60,000 smart contracts

• The Hiro platform is officially live and their wallet extension now allows for easier pooling and Stacking right in your browser.

• ALEXLabBTC announces $ALEX is set to be listed on MEXC

• The Bitcoin Olympics Hackathon submissions open today!

• …and the Building on Bitcoin virtual event is right around the corner. Register here.

Speaking of Stacking… the new Stacks 2.1 continuous stacking rules go live for the next cycle starting in roughly three days. Make sure to re-stack your $STX to earn $BTC!

😋 Other tasty content

• Coindesk: Bitcoin Layer 2 Stacks' Token a Top Performer in March

• Pintu (the large exchange in Indonesia) listed STX

• EmblemVault now supports the Stacks NFT token standard

• Trust Machines: The Future of Bitcoin Rollups: A Q&A With John Light

• Trust Machines: 5 Notable Ordinals NFT Inscriptions that Drove Bitcoin Ordinals

• Executive Director @br_ttany on why Ordinals have naturally brought more people to Bitcoin layers like Stacks

🛠️ Updates from the Ecosystem Comms Working Group

• Narrative team: Rough drafts of the ecosystem FAQ and marketing one-pager are completed and will be reviewed early next week. The technical one-pager can be viewed here.

• sBTC team: The team is connected to the sBTC project leads and will begin reviewing brand efforts, the sBTC glossary, and begin to tee up initial plans for the launch coming later this year.

• PR team: Compiling a media audit for outlets and channels with outdated Stacks information.

_{Further updates and discussions available on the Working Group’s Github page.}

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