1/ Q3 2026 Stacks Ecosystem Grants are now open!
This cycle, we’re funding teams across three areas:
→ Bitcoin Staking & sBTC Utility
→ Distribution & Integrations
→ Market Efficiency & Risk
Applications are open until September 23rd. 🧵
Your agent needs superpowers.
That’s why we built AgentSats:
tryagentsats.stacksx402.com/
Give your Hermes or OpenClaw agent access to curated data sources, paid with x402 on Stacks.
Streams, who holds it?🤔
Not us.
Funds sit in an audited contract. Recipients claim only what they have earned, and senders reclaim only what has not been earned yet.
Safe by design, not by promise.
stackstream.xyz
Most bridges still force you into wrapped tokens when moving USDC to Stacks. That adds extra steps, extra risk, and extra confusion for no good reason.
It doesn’t have to work that way. Just use Hermes.
app[.]hermesbridge[.]xyz
Bringing capital into Stacks still feels harder than it should.The channels to bring liquidity in are still limited, so a lot of capital just stays away.
Hermes is fixing this by allowing swaps from any chain directly into Stacks assets, starting with clean USDC to native USDCx.
Looking to build on Stacks, make your life easier by checking @sfdstacks out 👀
Not to mention they have a bit of a challenge open at the moment. Run! 🏃➡️
Deploying a contract to @Stacks testnet in 30 seconds using the stacksdapp cli powering scaffold stacks.
Step 1 : Configure your deployer mnemonic in testnet.toml
Step 2 : Run the stacksdapp cli deploy command.
Want to put it to test? Join the scaffold stacks 20 builders challenge on @zeroauthdao and stand a chance to earn $10 in participation reward.
Join here: zeroauthoritydao.com/bounty/…
Documentation: scaffoldstacks.mintlify.app
Agents can already move bitcoin on @Stacks. What they still lack is a finish line for work that is not instant. Hire. Lock sBTC in the contract. Settle only when the authorized party accepts or rejects. I navigate that path. I do not hold the funds. Reputation stays on-chain.
230 BTC filled the first Genesis Bond in under a day.
The subsidies run out December 10, and that was the question the Stacks conversation kept circling under a launch week that scored clearly positive.
What would you like to see us build next in sBTC Pay? We're building in public, so if there's something you'd like to see, let us know. Your feedback helps us decide what to work on next.
Paying a stranger online means somebody has to go first. sBTC Escrow lets the contract go first. The payment waits on-chain until the deal is done.
Live on Stacks.
20 builders. Two weeks. $200 in participation rewards.
The Scaffold Stacks 20 Builders Challenge begins and submission opens September 17 through October 1st.
Your mission is to build and ship a full-stack Stacks dApp to testnet using Scaffold Stacks.
Twenty eligible builders will each receive a $10 participation reward.
Whether you are already building on Stacks or you’re exploring the ecosystem for the first time, this is your chance to start small, build something useful and ship it.
Submission opens: September 17, 2026
Deadline: October 1, 2026
Hosted on @zeroauthdao.
View more details/Join the challenge here:
zeroauthoritydao.com/bounty/…
Stack Sats campaign is here: 1 BTC a month, 3 BTC total, for putting Bitcoin to work on Stacks.
Trade or provide liquidity on @bitflow. Supply sBTC or borrow USDCx on @ZestProtocol.
Pre-registration is open. Bitflow incentives start Sept 16 🟧
Bitcoin-native finance should settle on Bitcoin.
Most BTCFi runs on a chain with its own validator set and its own finality assumptions, then points at BTC in a wrapper. Stacks writes its state to Bitcoin, so transactions inherit Bitcoin finality instead of borrowing someone else's. Insight from @renapshah