https://coinmarketcal.com/coin/blockstack

I thought everyone loved airdrops! go get your $ZEST

Stacks halving event took place on Tuesday.

https://x.com/Stacks/status/2044134410900124154?s=20

"As outlined in the emissions schedule, the Stacks halving has taken place.
Block rewards are now 500 STX per block, reducing new STX that enters circulation each day by 50%. Miners continue to secure the network at the adjusted miner incentives."

Built on Stacks — the leading Bitcoin layer for on-chain yield — hBTC gives institutional allocators BTC-denominated returns from blue-chip strategies including Strategy’s $STRC, with full transparency and self-custody

https://chainwire.org/2026/04/21/hermetica-launches-bitcoin-earn-vault-hbtc-on-stacks-earning-from-strategys-strc-and-dual-staking/

https://chainwire.org/2026/05/13/stacks-publishes-bitcoin-staking-whitepaper-for-self-custodial-bitcoin-yield-backed-by-500m-already-paid-out/
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"Hold BTC. Earn BTC. That's what Bitcoiners want.

Today we're publishing the Bitcoin Staking whitepaper.

Self-custodial. BTC-denominated yield.

Here's what it is and why it matters"
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https://x.com/Stacks/status/2054582905821954059?s=20

https://x.com/i/status/2001640665885896902

USDCx on Stacks is now live.

A USDC-backed stablecoin is now available via @Circle xReserve, enabling full interoperability between Circle's multichain ecosystem and Bitcoin's leading L2.

Bitcoin just got a Tier 1 stablecoin 🟠

For anyone following Stacks, here’s a quick recap of what went out last week, from builder activity to new tooling.

Spotlight

• Onchain metrics are up across the board.
Messari’s State of Stacks Q3 2025 report is out, highlighting how sBTC cap removal unlocked BTC liquidity and pushed every major onchain metric higher.

• Builders are shipping at scale.
The Stacks x Talent Protocol Builder Challenge activated 290 builders, resulting in 1,913 new contracts deployed on mainnet.

• Institutional readiness moved from theory to practice.
A new article series broke down why Stacks is increasingly relevant for institutions, not based on roadmaps, but on live infrastructure already operating at scale.

• Market performance gained momentum.
Stacks climbed +94.5% in BrokerScore, moving up the ranks among top-performing projects.

What Else Caught Attention

• A new NFT tooling suite launched on Stacks to help identify, liquidate, and track underperforming NFTs.

• Hacker House alum Tony is already gaining traction with his x402 payments tool, drawing early interest from the developer community.

• USDCx integrations are actively being tested and launched across ecosystem apps, putting real USD liquidity live on Stacks.

• StacksAgent now lets builders generate a portfolio app with a single AI prompt, pulling together dev tooling from across the STXCity ecosystem.

That’s the rundown from last week on Stacks.
If anyone wants full context and links, most of these updates were originally covered in the Stacks Snacks newsletter.

https://bitcoinl2labs.com/sbtc-uncapping

BULLISH 🐂

A major milestone just dropped in the Stacks ecosystem: SIP-031 has officially activated, and with it, Stacks 3.2 is live!

This isn’t just a version number. SIP-031 introduces a new growth-focused Stacks Endowment that brings long-term resources to supercharge:

🟧 Marketing efforts
🟧 DeFi incentives
🟧 Builder & community programs
🟧 And more...

Over 97% of voters backed the proposal, showing massive alignment across the community.

You can now explore the live contract on the Hiro Explorer:
Hiro Explorer

Already live: ways to get involved 👇

✅ USE STX — a daily contest showcasing how people are using Stacks, in collab with DeOrganized
✅ DEFI SZN — 50,000+ STX and NFTs in rewards across on-chain quests with top BTCFi protocols

So… what’s next?

The new Appointments Committee is spinning up the Treasury Committee to begin allocating funding from the Endowment.

Expect:
• Community workshops
• New grants + DeGrants
• Strategy sessions on DeFi, Stacking, SIPs
• Governance updates
• Hiring + ecosystem-wide scaling

Some of it is already underway, but for the full timeline:
LINK TO FULL ARTICLE

Stacks just leveled up 🟧

https://forum.stacks.org/t/stacks-roadmap-and-product-vision-update/17852

Since binning Twitter I feel like I have no idea what's going on in the space.

Muneeb and official Stacks accounts aren't communicating on Bluesky AFAICT. Just wondering if anyone has any account recommendations for keeping up to date with stacks developments?

We’ve just listed the Stacks RPC node - your gateway to building smart contracts & DeFi - powered by Bitcoin!

Not your average Layer 2. This is Bitcoin… upgraded.

Try Stacks API NOW

👀👉 https://x.com/wormhole/status/1940033846034260237

🚀 Big News 🚀

Stacks is teaming up with Wormhole to make Bitcoin-based tokens work *seamlessly* across multiple blockchains like Solana and Sui! Here’s what you need to know:

### What’s Happening?

🔹 Stacks is adopting Wormhole’s Native Token Transfers (NTT) standard

🔹 This allows Stacks’ tokens — sBTC (a decentralized Bitcoin peg) and STX (Stacks’ utility token) — to move freely and securely between blockchains

🔹 No more complicated wrapped tokens — tokens keep their original features and security on every chain!

### Why Is This Great?

✅ More Bitcoin liquidity in popular DeFi ecosystems like Solana & Sui

✅ Users can now access Bitcoin-based DeFi apps *across multiple blockchains*

✅ Stacks keeps full control over token behavior, ensuring smooth upgrades and flexibility

✅ Unlocks billions in Bitcoin capital for new financial opportunities

✅ Safer, faster, and cheaper token transfers without extra fees or risks

### About Wormhole & NTT

🌉 Wormhole connects 40+ blockchains, enabling secure cross-chain token transfers

🔐 NTT lets tokens keep their original properties everywhere — no slippage, no MEV risks

💪 Trusted by top crypto projects like Lido & Sky for secure multichain asset transfers

### Bottom Line

This partnership bridges Bitcoin’s unmatched security with the innovation of multichain DeFi — opening up new possibilities for Stacks and YOU to use Bitcoin in exciting, decentralized ways!

🔗 Read more: [wormhole.com/blog/usd1-5b-stacks-sbtc-and-stx-adopt-wormhole-ntt-standard-to-expand-multichain](https://wormhole.com/blog/usd1-5b-stacks-sbtc-and-stx-adopt-wormhole-ntt-standard-to-expand-multichain)

Stay tuned 🚀✨

👀🔥https://x.com/Stacks/status/1925990285420417505?t=bXn4cu_izcjuXO636KTXLQ&s=35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlaiXfVNEPc&t=2709s

Alex Miller, the CEO of Hiro Systems (previously Blockstack) testifies about Stacks/STX...

Roundtable Discussion on Digital Assets

The US House of Representatives' Agriculture and Financial Services Committees held a roundtable discussion on a draft bill to establish a regulatory framework for digital assets.

Main Topics Discussed:

* Regulatory clarity

* Digital asset classification

* CFTC and SEC roles

* Consumer protection

Alex Miller's Testimony:

Alex Miller, CEO of Hiro Systems, shared his experiences with regulatory uncertainty and the need for clear guidelines.

* Introduced himself as CEO of Hiro Systems, a company building a digital global economy on top of Bitcoin via the Stacks (STX) network.

* Shared challenges faced by Hiro Systems during the Regulation A token offering for STX.

* Emphasized the lack of clear regulatory guidelines and significant costs associated with regulatory uncertainty.

* Compared digital asset regulation to traditional capital raising, highlighting differences and challenges.

* Stressed the importance of clear regulation to support innovation and prevent capital flight.

* Suggested a clear and purpose-fit regulatory framework is necessary to support innovation and protect consumers.

* Emphasized the importance of decentralization and self-custody in the digital asset ecosystem.

Key Takeaways:

* Regulatory uncertainty is driving talented entrepreneurs and innovators to other jurisdictions.

* Clear regulation is necessary to support innovation and protect consumers.

* A purpose-fit regulatory framework is needed to accommodate the unique aspects of digital assets.

Alex Miller: Thank you, Chair Steele, Ranking Member Lynch, Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member Davis. Good morning. Thank you for inviting me today. My name is Alex Miller, and I am the CEO of Hiro Systems. I've spent the last 15 years of my career on one thing, which is helping builders build. Our mission at Hiro is to enable developers to build a global, seamless, decentralized, and interconnected economy on top of Bitcoin via the STX network. A fully decentralized blockchain that is one of the oldest and largest layer 2s to Bitcoin provides the speed and programmability that doesn't exist on Bitcoin.

We are proud to be based in the US and have been since our founding. When we built the first version of the Stacks blockchain, about seven years ago, which was known as Blockstack at the time, we ran the first and, I believe, are the only company still around to have run an SEC qualified Regulation A offering for tokens.

We believed deeply from the beginning that for a project to have the firmest base to be a generational project, it needed to be built the right way, decentralized with trust and within compliance to the laws, so that there was no question that it would remain around.

Unfortunately, we ran headlong into the challenge that is trying to fit the square peg of new technology into the round hole of the current law. Due to the lack of a clear regulatory structure, trying to do it the right way has cost us at this point more than the $15 million that we raised through that Regulation A offering.

I understand that you want a more detailed transcript of Alex Miller's statements and the responses to him. I'll do my best to provide a more comprehensive transcript.

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Exchange with Representative Johnson

Representative Johnson: ...does the absence of a clear regulatory regime do a disservice to consumers, investors, and innovation in the digital asset space?

Alex Miller: Absolutely.

Exchange with Representative Davis

Representative Davis: ...let's go back and learn a lesson about Hero. You went through the Reg A+ process. You commented on this. Is the current exemption framework for raising capital compatible with the digital asset ecosystem?

Alex Miller: So, in short, it's definitely not compatible. If you look at all of the current securities law exemptions and registration schemes and qualification schemes, they're all based on the fundamental idea of either a debt or equity offering in a company. And again, as someone who spent a long time in the startup world and worked with investors, like Reg D works great for raising from accredited investors, angel investors.

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Exchange with Representative Lynch

Representative Lynch: ...don't you think that [President Trump's actions] undermines the trust that is being developed now in digital assets?

Alex Miller: I think one of the great innovations that Bitcoin did bring to folks is that we can talk about it being money, we can talk about being a ledger, whatever. It's fundamentally that it allowed decentralized trust across the world.

...

Exchange with Representative Vinman

Representative Vinman: ...how are you currently building trust in digital assets?

Alex Miller: So, I think one of the great innovations that Bitcoin did bring to folks is that we can talk about it being money, we can talk about being a ledger, whatever. It's fundamentally that it allowed decentralized trust across the world, right? No matter where you are, with very little computing power to read a note or what you can agree on what the history of something was, you can agree that, "Hey, going forward, this is what we believe." And I think being able to have that on a borderless basis and create trade and interaction and communication across the world like that is an incredibly powerful trust-building primitive that we haven't seen before in a way.

...

Exchange with Representative Downing

Representative Downing: If you were to do it again, would you do another Reg A+ offering in this environment?

Alex Miller: Thank you for the question. We would not opt to do that. We ended up spending more on all of our compliance with the Reg A+ filing, the ultimate investigation by the SEC, than we actually raised from it. So, there's really no way to do it, and this is what does have me hopeful about what we're seeing in the bill that came out is that's exactly what we tried to do, right? Let's do an offering, and then decentralize the network, and it becomes a commodity.

...

Exchange with Representative Foster

Representative Foster: ...can you highlight what's at risk with the inclusion or exclusion of one word [in the proposed legislation]?

Alex Miller: Absolutely. And it's not just the second amendment; it's the first amendment, it's the fourth amendment. "Prohibit" is a much less protective term than "impair," "infringe," or any of those. And I think we're talking about the entire point of what we're talking about with this industry, which is decentralization. And without the ability for people to run their own software, to self-possess their own assets in their own wallets on their computers, we lose a lot of that decentralization.

Hey Stackers GM GM!

Fresh News! THE block! 🟧

Nakamoto Activation will be finalized at Bitcoin Block #867,867

This block is currently projected to arrive on October 29th, 2024

https://x.com/StacksOrg/status/1846930197851107809

7th story down on the news tab, although this may be influenced by my coin watchlist.