Hey Stackers! The Nakamoto release has been sent to Signers, exchanges, & other node operators! This is the 1st step of the 2 part launch process and is highlighted by the instantiation of the pox-4 contract. This release will activate on ~April 22 at Bitcoin block 840,360! 🟧

A new onboarding flow in the Hiro Platform, faster testing in the Clarinet SDK, the release of the Nakamoto-ready Stacks Blockchain API, and much more. See what we shipped in April in our monthly release roundup: hiro.so/blog/release-r…

Our new docs site is now live 🎉 Check it out: docs.hiro.so/stacks

Sometimes you just want to open up a tab, write a bit of code, and see if it runs. That’s why we built Clarity Playground, an online REPL environment where you can write and run Clarity code in the browser 👇.

It's demo time at Bitcoin Builders Conference 📍 Nashville ! In blockchains, you don’t want to “move fast, break things” when your dealing with smart contracts and immutable code. Devs need to test their contracts all the time. But manual testing is time consuming and error prone. Unit testing gives

The latest Clarinet release introduces beta support for Nakamoto in simnet and devnet. That means you can experiment with epoch 3.0 and start writing Clarity 3 contracts today. Check out the new Clarity 3 keywords 👀

Lots of people saying Telegram's founder was arrested to get access to messages Telegram has never been secure - the company has always been able to read your messages (they have a copy of the encryption key). Use Signal for anything you care about being secure

I’m excited to be speaking at Bitcoin Unleashed Amsterdam on October 11th. Register at bitcoinunleashed.org #BitcoinAmsterdam

🚀 Introducing Txtx (β): The ultimate companion for anchor/clarinet/foundry/hardhat (more soon). When these tools are great for writing and testing contracts/programs, Txtx is pushing the envelope on deployment & ops We need 50⭐️ to make it on brew, help: github.com/txtx/txtx

the stacks nakamoto binary is released today on github and shipped to known network operators and exchanges. the bitcoin block 867,867 for hardfork is coded in this release. all systems are a go and bitcoin block countdown starts!

NEWS: the stacks nakamoto upgrade is successfully live! - 100% bitcoin finality for stacks l2 transactions. the tx ordering and reversal protected by full bitcoin hashpower. satoshi’s idea from 13 years ago. - fast blocks give latency of seconds instead of 10-40 mins of

The sBTC Mainnet Release is Live with Bitcoin Deposits! 🟧 Today is an exciting day for stacks.btc and the broader Bitcoin ecosystem - the first version of sBTC is here, enabling users to mint sBTC on the Stacks layer! 🧵 This thread covers the nuts and bolts. 1/6

sBTC is live! 🔥🚀 You can now put your Bitcoin to work in DeFi apps, whether you want to take out a stablecoin loan against your Bitcoin, deposit sBTC into a liquidity pool to earn yield, and more. With programmable BTC, everything in Bitcoin DeFi becomes possible.

stacks network completes a 500% increase in network bandwidth. the tenure-extend feature of nakamoto that increases network capacity has been live on mainnet. core devs plan to work on several other optimizations in 2025 but it’s great to see this one live already!

New Hiro cookbook is 🔥 Excited to see this grow and have a library of composable code snippets for Stacks devs

You can now test your code with mainnet data in Clarinet simnet. Building on top of other Stacks contracts just got a whole lot easier. 🧵

For Stacks to be a generational product, it needed to be build the right way. Now, Stacks is leading the charge for broader crypto adoption. - STX Hiro CEO Alex Miller testifying in Washington DC on how Congress can deliver for clear, modern rules for crypto.

Dev N' Tell | Brady | Formatting the Clarity Formatter x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

sBTC Cap-3: Full. We reached the 5,000 sBTC cap in less than 2.5 hours. BTCFI is inevitable.

Ok, office hours space is happening! Kicking it off next Monday at 10:30am ET Initial format is an hour - start with a guest (eg a Hiro employee or someone from eco) talking about what they're working on and then just a bunch of community Q&A time. x.com/i/spaces/1yoKM…