NEWS

Blockstack has partnered with Hack Quarantine, an online hackathon bringing over 1,500 people together to combat issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

→ Register for the hackathon.

Due to the unprecedented situation with COVID-19, the Stacks 2.0 public testnet launch has been postponed to the week of April 20th.

→ See further details on the forum.

Blockstack is one of many crypto projects that have taken special measures to take care of team members and maintain operations in the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic.

→ Read more on Cryptonews.

Many Blockstack apps were recognized as the top Web 3.0 alternatives to the essential software and tools for working from home.

→ Check them out on Decrypt.

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COMMUNITY

Congratulations to Blockstack evangelist, Anthony Albertorio and the CoronaTracker team for placing 20th out of 306 projects and 3,000 participants from 80 countries in the CodeVsCovid19 hackathon!

→ Try out CoronaTracker.

Blockstackers recently kicked off the first ever Blockstack meme contest. The creator of the best meme (according to community votes) will win an awesome Blockstack backpack.

→ Submit a meme on Discord.

Blockstackers celebrated new evangelist, Jason Schrader, who has played a huge role in engaging and pushing Blockstack's working groups forward.

→ Learn more about Jason.

Despite the interruption to in-person meetups (due to COVID-19), Blockstackers were able to adapt by making their meetups virtual. The first Blockstack Chile meetup was led by Phillip Roe over Zoom, and an educational session on Web 3.0 was taught by Mirlo Mauriño from Madrid, over Crowdcast.

→ Watch a replay of the Chile meetup.

→ Check out the Web 3.0 session.

Blockstack's Product team recently took a trip through the Metaverse...

→ See for yourself.

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DEV

Blockstack Engineer, Hank Stoever released an unofficial guide to building apps with Clarity smart contracts.

→ Start building your own app.

The Stacks blockchain engineers have made significant progress on the Stacks 2.0 protocol upgrade with features like a transaction page for the Stacks explorer.

→ See all of this week's Stacks 2.0 and PoX updates.

The fourth lesson of a comprehensive Blockstack Chinese dev course on data authorization and Gaia has been released.

→ Take the course.

Blocksurvey has successfully integrated Blockstack Connect.

→ Check out the new login.

Pravica (formerly known as Dmails) has released a React Native mobile development SDK for Blockstack apps.

→ Read the guide.

Blockstack evangelist, Alex Lee, recently hosted a livestream on integrating Blockstack Connect.

→ Watch the stream.

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EVENTS

→ Cdot CTO and Assistant Professor, Wu Yifei, will be giving a remote lecture on decentralized identity and Blockstack to the Blockstack China community on April 5th.

→ Blockstack evangelist, Allen Joseph, will be hosting a virtual meetup for the Blockstack India community on April 10th.

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WATCH, LISTEN, READ

→ Watch Balaji Srinivasan talk about novel concept, Proof-of-Hodl, at the Blockstack x Nakamoto meetup in Austin.

→ Listen to Muneeb Ali talk to Knotel Co-founder, Amol Sarva, about Blockstack's journey, Bitcoin, and internet ownership on the In the Know podcast.

→ Listen to Patrick Stanley talk to writer and CoinDesk report, Leigh Cuen, about everything from the ongoing impact of COVID-19 and navigating crypto media, to Bitcoin memes and truth seeking on episode 10 the Stacks Podcast.

→ Listen to Patrick talk to Joel Monegro of Placeholder VC about an investment thesis that spans Joel's career, the evolution of business models in crypto, and the concept of user-staking on episode 11 of the Stacks Podcast.

→ Listen to Andreas Antonopoulos discuss interoperability and revisit his talk from Blockstack Summit 2019, "One Network, Many Chains" on episode 23 of the Unscrypted podcast.

→ Listen to Muneeb and Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital tackle big questions like, "What is crypto good for?" and nerd out about the Web 3.0 stack, whether Ethereum can evolve, DeFi vs. centralized finance, the polarization of exchanges, native chain communication, Bitcoin finality, scaling Layer 1, and more on episode 12 of the Stacks Podcast.

→ Read Muneeb Ali's op-ed in Bitcoin Magazine on how Bitcoin can become the foundation for Web 3.0.

→ Read the recap of the community AMA session with Blockstack Head of Engineering, Diwaker Gupta.

→ Read Founder of New Internet Labs and former Blockstack Core Engineer, Larry Salibra's blog examining the way that user intent is treated in today's web climate, and how creating a new "Can't Be Evil" terms of service could change everything.

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GET INVOLVED

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

→ 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.

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