Stacks Devs - Monthly 10,000 STX Program & New Course Material

Hey there, Stacks developer 👋

If you’re reading this, it means you’ve either crushed it in a Stacks developer course, registered for a workshop, participated in a hackathon, or connected with us somewhere in the wild—however it happened, we’re glad to be in touch! This is a new monthly newsletter just for Stacks developers looking to build on Bitcoin with the leading Bitcoin L2.

On a ~monthly basis, you’ll receive key news and resources for developers, such as the newly introduced Code for Stacks program with 10,000 STX (nearly $20,000) in monthly prizes! You can also count on:

• Newsletter takeovers from the top builders in the ecosystem

• Breaking news for developers

• Special offers, before others get them

• Exclusive content from leading developer communities like EasyA, LearnWeb3, and many more!

Alright, enough chit-chat. Let’s dive into the good stuff!

Rick & Kenny

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👨‍💻 News & Programs

• Code for Stacks: The deadline to submit code and win from a 10,000 STX prize pool is August 31st. All you have to do is work on a project, yep, pretty much any project. And if the August deadline is too soon, don’t stress, the program runs every month.

• Winner: Congrats to July’s Code for Stacks winner, Gecko Security, for winning 2,500 STX!

• The Bitcoin Olympics: submit your project to win one Stacks prize of $5,000 for the best hackathon project build on Stacks.

📃 New Available Resources

• New docs: The Stacks docs recently went through a major upgrade, adding more content and making it easier to find the information you need.

• New tutorial: Kenny Rogers teaches you how to use the Hiro platform to create a basic lending protocol contracts with Clarity.

• Educational watch: Eric Choy’s smart contract of the month, a semi-fungible token.

• Educational watch: Jing. Cash Founder Rapha does a Code & Tell episode.

☘️ Evergreen Clarity Courses

• Stacks Primer: five emails to fully brush up on your Clarity skills

• LearnWeb3 Stacks Developer Degree: get an official Clarity LW3 developer degree.

⭐ Builder be buildin’

• The Community Approves Non-sequential Multisig Transactions Stacks Improvement Proposal (SIP) created by Asigna Founder Vlad.

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