Stacks Snacks - This Week's News & Stories

Happy Friday! This week, we’re coming off of big energy from two ecosystem events: Building on Bitcoin and Bitcoin Olympics. As usual, plenty of other fun updates from Stacks projects and some good reads on Bitcoin below.

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Building Bitcoin virtual event wraps - with a lot of ground covered

• The ALEX Mainnet Bridge has launched!

• Stacks Force (now Force prime) launched their platform in Alpha

• BTC StartupLab celebrates the end of Bitcoin Olympics

• Check out HeyLayer’s plans to better serve Bitcoiners

• Stacks stablecoin UWU protocol launches 

😋 Other tasty content

• The cultural shift towards building on Bitcoin

• The Evolution of Money: From Bartering to Banknotes to Bitcoin

• From Bitcoin Layer 2 to Ordinals - Building on the Bitcoin Blockchain

• Investor speculation: A bull cycle with Stacks and Bitcoin?

📅 Don’t forget…the Bitcoin Builders conference in Miami is coming up quick!

👋 New here? New to Stacks? Welcome!

If you’re curious or need a refresher, Stacks is a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts and decentralized applications. Stacks exists to unlock Bitcoin’s full potential as the largest, most valuable, durable, decentralized asset. Learn more here.

🛠️ Updates from the Ecosystem Comms Working Group

• sBTC team: Each team member has been assigned priority tasks and is executing on the research phase of the project.

• Narrative team: Finalizing FAQ and marketing resources for ecosystem use. Meeting next week to brainstorm and outline content for H2 2023.

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

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