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How does Bitcoin get pegged into a smart contract on L2? Rafico.btc walks through a live BTC deposit into stacks.btc. No wrappers, no bridges, just Clarity verifying a BTC tx and triggering a satoshi unlock on L2. Full demo from the Hiro livestream 🔽

Formatting your Clarity code to be prettier is now doable. We'll chat with Hiro's Senior Engineer, brady, on the research and process that went into formulating standard syntax formats for Clarity. 🗓️ 5/9 🕐 1pm EST 📍 Twitter Livestream

Heading to Consensus 2025? Take a break from the conference hustle and join Hiro for a laid-back dinner with fellow devs. Good food, cold drinks, great company. 🗓️ May 15th 🕖 7:00pm EST 📍 Approved registrants will receive venue information lu.ma/i8wqyquh

“It gets exhausting reading a contract where every function is formatted differently.” Brady, Hiro That’s why the new Clarity formatter in Clarinet exists. Consistent, readable code. Especially when teams grow. Here’s the thinking behind it 👇

Devs building on Bitcoin are built different. If you’re writing Clarity, you’re already ahead of the curve. Respect the craft 🟧

Tipping, rewarding, even airdropping. Directly on X. BoostX makes it happen. Built by cryptodude.btc 🟧🟪🟦, it lets you send STX, sBTC, and CC on-chain, right from your feed. LEO | Stacks Chain used it in a stacks.btc live space to drop $LEO to .btc holders. Stacks devs stay shipping 🟧

- New API account tiers to access higher rate limits 🚀 - Introduced human-readable Clarity values to Clarinet unit tests 🔤 - Increased the maximum code body length for contract deploys using stacks.js 📏 Discover the rest of what we shipped in our monthly release roundup:

What are you building with Clarity lately? Still sketching ideas? Already shipping? Doesn’t matter. Drop it below. We might spotlight a few 🟧 Real devs devving on stacks.btc

r u a dev/builder? r u in Vegas this week? r u into bitcoin? r u down for dinner?

Miners on the stacks.btc network spend BTC to earn STX. Stackers stack STX to earn BTC. As part of the PoX consensus, these BTC transactions, from miners, not only payout the BTC yield to stackers, but also help to anchor the L2 on the L1 with chain state data.

Wow! Nearly 50 stacks.btc submissions at the Bitcoin 2025 Las Vegas hackathon. The STX devs really are everywhere. Bullish on the incredible Stacks developer ecosystem.

Back from Vegas 🟧 The booth was packed. Devs asked the right questions and left ready to build. New SIP proposal. Roadmap buzz. Builder energy all around. stacks.btc is heating up 🔥 Missed it? You’ll see it in the commits

New to building on Bitcoin? Code for STX is your on-ramp 🟧 Build anything. Learn by doing. Ship every month. Get rewarded just for writing code. kennyrogers.btc 🟧 & Adam Haun 🟧 break down how this low-pressure, high-reward program helps devs start fast

A new bootcamp just kicked off in India powered by ✨ Rise In and stacks.btc 🟧 🔸40+ builders joined online 🔸75+ showed up in person at SITM Getting familiar with Clarity and what it means to build on Bitcoin.