Stacks Snacks - This Week's News & Stories

We’re back this week with a few tasty articles about L2 and the growth of Bitcoin use cases, info on the latest Stacks release, updates from the ecosystem, a look at the past bullish month for STX, and more. Feel free to drop a tip if you have a story for next week!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Stacks Foundation: Making BTC Fully Programmable with Layer 2 Technology

• Lunar Crush: A bullish month for Stacks in numbers

• A new release that addresses recent bug now ready (related SIP here)

• Xverse: How to Earn Interest on Bitcoin

• There’s a Bitcoin layer you’re not paying attention to…

• Ryder's Exciting Q1 2023 Progress Report

• Bitcoin Writes: This week in sBTC

• Hiro announces wallet support for Bitcoin stamps

• CoinDesk: Bitcoin Use Cases Are Seeing ‘Explosive Growth,' Trust Machines Says

😋 Other tasty content

• Decrypt: Bitcoin Daily Transactions Hit All-Time High With 3 Million Ordinals Inscriptions

• Amb Crypto: Binance supports Stacks upgrade: Bitcoin L2 scaling takes a step forward

• Hiro: From Early Adopters to the Mass Market: Tracking Blockchain Adoption Through the Hype Cycle

• Trust Machines: Consensus 2023 and the Revival of Bitcoin Building

• KimchiBlock/MatrixPort: Ordinals Can Make STX a Multibillion Dollar Token

📅 Coming up quick: Bitcoin Builders conference in Miami - register now!

👋New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

Stacks is a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts; it enables smart contracts and decentralized applications to use Bitcoin as an asset and settle transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Stacks exists to unlock Bitcoin’s full potential as the largest, most valuable, durable, decentralized asset. Learn more here.

🛠️ Ecosystem Comms Working Group Updates

• sBTC team: Ongoing persona research + amplification research repository actively begging added to

• Comms team: Meeting the week of 5-8 to develop a thematic roadmap for content and outline topics for H2

• PR team: Submitted outreach to public channels with new Stacks materials

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

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