Stacks Snacks - This Week's News & Stories

Stacks Snacks is back with your roundup of the latest ecosystem news, events, insights and more. Have a timely story that should be included in next week’s list? Drop a tip here.

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• Consensus ‘23 is happening now. Check out the agenda here.

• Missed Building on Bitcoin? Check out the full event recording here

• Hiro: Subnets Alpha is live on Testnet

• Via @QuentinSaubadu: A map of active Stacks startups

• The ALEX Bridge Mainnet has launched

• Updates 🧵 on the stacking bug and related release

• Introducing the Indexer Startup Program for Stacks developers!

😋 Other tasty content

• Navigating the Bitcoin Startup Ecosystem: A Q&A with Dan Held

• Milestone: 2 million Ordinals have been inscribed

• CoinDesk: Looking for your dream job in crypto? 

• [New] Stacks docs: Clarity being decidable is a very good thing

• Navigating the tension between Web3 privacy and data transparency

• Gamma: Why do humans like collecting NFTs?

📅 Right around the corner: the Bitcoin Builders conference in Miami

👋 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: Strike team assignments are underway with individuals focused on research, persona development, amplification options, and more.

• Narrative team: Meets next week to finalize a new brainstorm of H2 content and set strategy for key pieces for this quarter and beyond.

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

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