Dec 29•7 min read
Namaste Stackers! 🙏
Hope you have been enjoying the holidays, It has been the week of giveaways and Christmas celebrations. The notion that Bitcoin is more than a store of value is clearly catching on fast!
Bitcoin DeFi and Bitcoin NFTs continue to blossom thanks to the builders leveraging Stacks and the Clarity smart contract language. Top Smart Contract Audit Agencies Embrace Clarity To Meet Demand Of Bitcoin Builders. We are happy to share that major audit agencies such as NCC, Least Authority, and Coinfabrik have completed training facilitated by the Stacks Foundation and begun providing Clarity smart contract audit services to Stacks projects.
Here are the major updates from last week:
As the language, and the momentum around building on Bitcoin continues to grow, more products and services are rapidly hitting the market. There is an increased need to ensure the safest, most secure experience possible. No matter how well-designed a smart contract language is or how skilled the developer using it, Audits play a pivotal role in the Stacks journey. Earlier this month major audit agencies such as NCC, Least Authority, and Coinfabrik completed training facilitated by the Stacks Foundation and began providing Clarity smart contract audit services to Stacks projects.
Read more here: https://stacks.org/smart-contracts-for-bitcoin-audits-clarity
ALEX is an open-source DeFi protocol on Bitcoin via Stacks’ smart contracts. The vision of ALEX is to contribute towards the financial infrastructure needed to realize Web3.
Excited to share two major announcements:
Project Philosophy:
ALEX token, noted as $ALEX, is a medium for the exchange of time value and risk/return preferences. $ALEX is the participation token of the platform and protocol that provides protocol & platform governance benefits to a governance participant who holds $ALEX.
$ALEX is also the medium by which participants of platform activities — namely provision of liquidity on the DEX and staking — are incentivized. $ALEX can be acquired through our DEX, LP participation and staking.
ALEXnomics - ALEX’s Tokenomics
The Issuer Co issues a total initial supply of 1,000,000,000 (one billion) ALEX governance tokens, $ALEX. The total initial supply is allocated as the following:
https://alexgo.io/ Token Distribution
Read more here: ALEXnomics Token Distribution
$1000 $STX Community Giveaway
Leading up to the Mainnet Launch, 50 lucky winners will be randomly selected to receive a total of $1,000 in $STX. Enter before Jan 20th 12PM GMT+8.
Participate here: Alex Community Giveaway, participate before Jan 20th 12pm GMT+8
Participate in IDO here: Alex IDO from 10th Jan’22
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Arkadiko Finance successfully added the STX/xBTC pair to Arkadiko Swap. Community can add liquidity to the pool on https://app.arkadiko.finance/swap/add/STX/xBTC.
$DIKO emissions are also enabled (by staking LP tokens on the Stake page).
Arkadiko is a decentralized, non-custodial liquidity protocol where users can collateralize their assets and mint a stablecoin called USDA. This enables depositors to gain increased liquidity in the form of a soft-pegged US Dollar stablecoin, while maintaining original asset exposure.
Made possible by Boombox NFTs, the concept behind the campaign is to showcase how we as a community can crowdfund for NPOs/projects/artists using Stacks unique consensus mechanism, Proof-of-Transfer. This year, Stacking proceeds will go toward The Surfer Kids.
The Surfer Kids
The Surfer Kids NPO founded in 2010, focuses on empowering marginalized and impoverished youth through surfing. The Non-profit runs a surf camp in Mossel Bay, South Africa where they teach commitment and dedication through surfing five days a week.
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Boom will stack 100,000 STX for the campaign, which nearly guarantees that the pool will reach the minimum amount required (110,000 STX).
There are 2,500 unique Stacks Charity Cracker NFTs in total as part of the collection. If there are any NFTs leftover at the end of cycle 23, they will be burned.
Read more here: The Stacks Charity Cracker
The Stackies honor and celebrate our fellow Stacks community members! Awards included "Most Innovative" and "Favorite Project of 2021" to folks nominated by the community.
Winners received awards in the form of Stacks NFTs, swag, and more.
Starting on Monday the 20th, and ending on New Years Eve, come join the Stacks community on Byzantion each day to enter for a chance to win a Bitcoin NFT. Each day there will be a new NFT you can win, all you have to do is open the square corresponding to the day! It's a 12 Day event, with 100+ NFT & 20k STX as rewards. On the first day of the Bitcoin NFT giveaway event, 2 lucky people won a Bitcoin Monkey and there is a bonus 25k Boombox giveaway as well.
We're so proud of what the Stacks community has done to bring about Bitcoin and we hope you'll celebrate these great projects with us and the entire Stacks fam.
How to Enter:
Swag Bonus:
Just in case you don't win an NFT, you also have a shot at some sweet Stacks swag. Just tweet about the #BTCNFTGiveaway for a chance to win a Stacks Merch Pack each day.
The Stacks Pack includes:
Read more: https://stx.is/stacks-holiday
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2500 apes minting via: STX/MIA/NYC coins.
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This weekly update is a repost of StacksScan's Stacks Weekly Update #2
StacksScan provides ecosystem updates of Stacks, a global community working together to build a user owned internet. #STX enables DeFi, NFTs, & Web3 on #Bitcoin. Authors: Saurabh
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