NEWS

Blockstack was featured in prominent textbook Computer Networks: A System Approach.

→ Read more about the feature.

→ See the full section on GitHub.

Alex Graebe recently joined Blockstack as PBC's Product Lead focused on the developer experience.

→ Catch Alex on Discord from time to time at @agraebe.

Blockstack is one of many New York crypto companies taking special precautions amid the rising COVID-19 threat.

→ Read the CoinDesk report.

→ Read the Cointelegraph report.

***

COMMUNITY

Georgina "Mirlo" Mauriño is a Blockstack evangelist making waves in the Madrid community.

→ Learn more about Mirlo from Blockstack's Evangelist Spotlight.

Dan Trevino, creator of popular Blockstack app, NoteRiot, has just released a decentralized video player called VidRiot.

→ Check out VidRiot.

Blocksurvey is now mobile friendly!

→ See the new UI.

The latest release of TimeStack includes a Kanban-style board.

→ Try out TimeStack's new features.

***

DEV

The Stacks 2.0 public testnet is tentatively scheduled to launch the week of March 30th!

→ View the high-level testnet plan.

PBC Engineering Partner, Jude Nelson breaks down how Clarity prevents common smart contract vulnerabilities.

→ Read the full blog.

Blockstacker @shakeib98 published a guide on writing your first Clarity smart contract.

→ Work through the guide.

Pravica (formerly Dmails) is launching a beta SDK that will help Blockstack developers navigate challenges like React Native mobile development, decentralized real-time push notifications, and payment gateways for fiat and STX tokens.

→ Learn more about what's in store.

***

EVENTS

→ Blockstack China evangelist, Gavin will be teaching a live Zero-to-Dapp workshop on March 15th.

→ Join a Discord AMA with PBC Engineering Partner, Jude Nelson on March 17th at 10:00am EST.

→ Blockstack evangelist, Shankar Ganesh will be representing Blockstack at the 3rd World Enterprise Blockchain Conclave in Bangalore from March 20th–21st.

→ Join a Discord AMA with PBC Head of Engineering, Diwaker Gupta on March 20th at 10:00am EST.

→ Blockstack will be participating as a sponsor at the Hack TJ Hackathon as well as the Los Altos Hacks Hackathon from March 21st–22nd.

***

WATCH, LISTEN, READ

→ Re-watch the fireside chat between Balaji Srinivasan and Patrick Stanley and share your thoughts on "Proof of Hodl".

→ Listen to Muneeb address common questions for STX miners on the Hashr8 podcast.

→ In honor of all the work that the Governance Working Group has been doing, read legal scholar and internet activist, Primavera De Filippi's hot take on decentralized governance.

***

GET INVOLVED

→ 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.