🍿 Introducing the sBTC Developer Release

This Week: we’re at the start of exciting times for the Stacks community, with the sBTC Developer Release officially announced and submissions for the testnet program now open.

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🍿 Stacks Snacks

• The official announcement of the sBTC Developer Release! The sBTC working group expects to deliver the developer release the week of October 18th.

• Are you a developer or decentralized application user? Apply for the closed sBTC testnet program.

• Paul Veradittakit publishes a deep dive on Stacks, addressing Bitcoin scalability and more!

• Stacks smart contract language Clarity expert Marvin Janssen highlights achievements of the Clarity working group.

• Learnweb3 Decentralized Intelligence hackathon officially starts with a grand prize to build with Stacks & AI.

😋 Other tasty content

• Are you in London on October 19-20? Make sure to join the Bitcoin Unleashed event!

• Decentralized Finance Protocol ALEX shares first newsletter discussing the On-chain Indexer & Liquidity Pool Migration.

• Bitcoin Wallet CEO Ken Liao names Stacks as his favorite scaling option for the Bitcoin economy.

• Bitcoin L2 DeFi protocol Velar shares educational post on DeFi perpetual markets.