NEWS

Phase 1 of the Stacks 2.0 Public Testnet is well on its way to launching next week! The Stacks engineering team has made tremendous progress, completing over 100 action items to date, with 11 in progress and only 6 more to go.

→ Check out their progress in detail on GitHub.

Forbes Crypto contributor, Justin O'Connell's interview with Muneeb Ali on How Bitcoin Could Anchor Web 3.0 has become his most viewed piece of all time.

→ Read the full piece on Forbes.

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COMMUNITY

The Blocksurvey team recently closed a 3-year deal with an enterprise client! An official announcement is soon to come, but in the meantime, be sure to congratulate the team on Discord.

→ See their unofficial announcement on Discord.

The Pravica team also closed a pre-seed investment round worth $500,000! An official announcement will be posted to their blog but you can congratulate them on Discord in the meantime.

→ See their unofficial announcement on Discord.

CoronaTracker, a decentralized and open-source web application built with Blockstack, was featured on Decrypt for its work on reducing hospital overload amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

→ Read more on Decrypt.

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DEV

The first version of the latest Clarity documentation is now live.

→ Go through the docs.

→ Send feedback to [email protected].

New features that you can expect on the Stacks 2.0 testnet include the ability to transfer tokens to another smart contract as well as the ability to broadcast transactions to the network.

→ See all updates on GitHub.

The react-blockstack package now supports Blockstack Connect authentication, facilitating integration into Blockstack apps using React.

→ Take a look on npm.

Blockstack evangelist and app developer, Friedger Müffke, hosted a livestream on how to use the Stacks Transactions library on the local testnet.

→ Watch the full stream.

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EVENTS

→ Blockstack evangelist, Friedger Müffke will be hosting a virtual meetup (specifically for the Blockstack EU community) focused on Proof of Transfer (PoX) on April 21st.

→ Blockstack evangelist, Alex Vinyas will be hosting a virtual meetup (specifically for the Blockstack Spain community) focused on PoX on April 22nd.

→ The next Blockstack Evangelists and community updates call will take place on April 23rd.

→ Blockstack evangelist, Georgina Mauriño will be partnering with Codemotion to host a virtual meetup specifically for the Blockstack Madrid community on April 23rd.

→ The next Blockstack Community Town Hall, covering the upcoming Stacks 2.0 public testnet, will be taking place on April 24th.

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WATCH, LISTEN, READ

→ Watch this livestream by evangelist and app developer, Dan Trevino, on how to set up the Stacks local testnet on raspberry pi.

→ Revisit episode 12 of the Stacks Podcast and listen to Blockstack's Muneeb Ali and Multicoin Capital's Kyle Samani discuss everything from the Web 3.0 stack and whether Ethereum can evolve, to Bitcoin finality and more.

→ Read this comprehensive recap of episode 11 of the Stacks Podcast with Blockstack's Patrick Stanley and Placeholder VC's Joel Monegro, in which they discuss user staking and business model innovation, among other thought-provoking ideas.

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GET INVOLVED

→ Send feedback on the latest Clarity documentation to [email protected].

→ Join the effort to develop a governance model for the Blockstack ecosystem by filling out this survey.

→ Sign up to be a Testnet Ambassador.

→ Sign up to be matched with a Blockstack Buddy.

→ Sign up to learn more about PoX and STX Mining on Stacks 2.0.

→ See what the working groups have been up to.

→ Join the Governance Working Group.

→ Join the Business Model Working Group.

→ Join the PoX Working Group.

>> Read the previous newsletter.