Stacks Snacks - This Week's News & Stories

Happy Friday! We’re wrapping up another exciting week in the Stacks ecosystem with big milestones, partnerships, new critical bounty grants, big events on the horizon, and much more.

See you next week!

🍿 Stacks Snacks

• Xverse hit 120K installs, and Hiro's 250K milestone is imminent!

• Check out Hiro’s March release roundup

• Introducing Replit for Stacks

• Muneeb shares recent updates from the Stacks ecosystem

• Gamma partners with Bitcoin Magazine for Bitcoin auctions! 🚀

• The Stacks Foundation awarded Critical Bounties grants

• NFT.NYC Stackers were all over events, like Nolcha at Art District Live, Pubkey Bitcoin Builders Happy Hour, and the Ordinals co-working event

• Learn about the Chapters program - a grassroots approach to building on Bitcoin

• 📅 Join Hiro in Miami this May for the Bitcoin Builders Conference!

• Last chance: sign up for the Virtual Bitcoin Builders event on 4/19

😋 Other tasty content

• Seeking Alpha: Stacks Bitcoin Layer 2 Could Be Huge

• Crypto Economy: Why Stacks Emerged as a Popular Layer 2 for Bitcoin

• Crypto investor: An update on my 900% ROI

• Crypto Potato: Stacks (STX) Soars 7% Daily

• Modern Diplomacy: Stacks Cryptocurrency and its Connection with Bitcoin

• Crypto News: Best Crypto to Buy Now (4/10)

👋 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: Outlining our priority deliverables based on phases of a launch workback. Key projects include stakeholder surveys, persona research and alignment with existing research, mapping out educational sBTC materials, and developing a full menu of options for amplification during launch.

• Narrative team: FAQ and Marketing one pager are under review this week and feedback will be discussed next week. The team is also opening a new effort to build out a content strategy for H2.

• PR team: Meeting set next week to review compiled list of media monitoring items and sites that have outdated Stacks references.

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

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