Stacks Snacks - This Week's News & Stories

This week’s roundup includes big news from ecosystem projects and artists, what you can expect at the upcoming Miami Bitcoin events, and more.

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

• ALEXBridge, connecting Binance Smart Chain + Stacks, launches Sunday

• Trust Machines: What to expect this year at Bitcoin Miami

• Gamma is transforming how auctions work on Bitcoin

• Exploring BRC-20s: New Opportunities for sBTC via Bitcoin Writes

• The Q3 Critical Bounties are here → check them out!

• Stacks Artist Mary Lai kicks off residency with the W Hotel in L.A.

• Gear up for #BRC20 trading on #B20ByAlex!

• Check out the stacked (pun intended) roundup of speakers at #BitcoinBuilders

• Launching in June: Ordinal Lending on Stacks with Liquidium

• 2.3.0.0.1 is out (address a DoS vulnerability related to Clarity type-checking tuples) via @StacksStatus

• Progress update on PoX-3 (SIP -022) - testing will go into Cycle 59

😋 Other tasty content

• Altcoin Buzz: The Top 3 NFT Collections in Stacks

• 🧵House of Chimera’s take on what makes Stacks unique

• Trust Machines: Lightning Dev Kit’s Impact on the Bitcoin Lightning Network

📅 The Bitcoin Builders conference is next week!

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🛠️ Ecosystem Comms Working Group Updates

• sBTC team: Team members are working independently on their projects and will reconvene after Miami events.

• Narrative team: The narrative team met today to flesh out a roadmap for 2023 H2 content. The initial quarterly themes are mapped out through Q2 2024, with next steps including content development based on sBTC use cases.

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

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