Stacks Snacks - This Week's News & Stories

Grab the popcorn, Stacks Snacks is back this week with more news and exciting ecosystem updates - plus a few updates from the comms working group!

See you next week!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• 10 Ways sBTC unlocks the power of Bitcoin

• Xverse weighs in on Bitcoin’s impact on the environment 

• Trust Machines: How Bitcoin Layer 2 Creates Incentives for Bitcoin’s Future

• ClarityTools 2.1 - the browser-based workbench for Clarity smart contracts - has been activated 

• Check out this week’s quarterly recap newsletter 

P.S. 📅 Mark your calendars

• Join Hiro on May 17th in Miami at the Bitcoin Builders Conference

• Check out the April 19th Building on Bitcoin Virtual Event 

😋 Other tasty content

• Space.com covers Nakamoto1 Stacks NFT project

• sBTC 🧵: Get ready for a paradigm shift in the crypto space via Flagship

• 21Shares launches ETP for Bitcoin L2 network Stacks via CryptoSlate

• Investor weighs in on the power of Stacks + Bitcoin

• Is the STX price headed for a rally? via CoinRepublic

• $STX listed as new perpetual on Kraken

• $STX hits the LunarCrush top 10 list again

🛠️ Updates from the Ecosystem Comms Working Group

• Narrative team updates: The team worked async this week to review and edit the marketing one-pager and FAQ document. These deliverables will be circulated with ecosystem leaders as a next step. As a reminder, the finalized technical one-pager can be viewed here.

• sBTC team updates: The sBTC team kicked off efforts officially this week by meeting with key sBTC leads and identifying early needs for the launch of sBTC later this year. Initial projects over the next few weeks include: researching and developing a menu of launch amplification options and ideas, surveying sBTC stakeholders and developing ideal outcomes and metrics for launch, and outlining important content topics and educational materials to support the launch.

• PR team updates: The team is currently developing the master list for all public-facing channels that will be monitored and maintained for up-to-date Stacks information. The team will also meet today (4/7) to establish initial projects.

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

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