Stacks Devs - New $90,000 Startup Competition & 10,000 STX Monthly Program

Hey there, Stacks developer 👋

sBTC hit its cap-2 in less than a day! To celebrate, we’re excited to announce that Buidl Battle has officially started! Buidl Battle is the latest Stacks startup competition including $90,000 in prizes, an opportunity to get selected for the new Stacks builders program, and interviews with leading VCs and accelerators attending the pitch days.

Let’s dive into this month’s Stacks dev news 👇️ 

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👨‍💻 News & Programs

• Buidl Battle: The startup competition has started today. You can still take part by going to the Dora Hacks page and join the official Telegram group.

• Stacks Ascent: Part of the Buidl Battle opportunities includes getting scouted by Stacks Ascent, the new Stacks builder program to receive financial and technical resources that help you succeed with your Stacks startup.

• Code for STX: A new month with more opportunities to earn from a 10,000 STX monthly prize pool for submitting new Stacks smart contract code.

📃 New Available Resources

• New Full Stack Stacks App Course: LearnWeb3, in partnership with the Stacks Foundation, released a new course to build full stack Stacks apps.

• Expanded sBTC testing support: You can now easily test sBTC in all of your development environments.

• Hiro Stacks Connect Release: Hiro shipped a major release of Stacks Connect, which streamlines your app code and makes it much easier for wallets to add new functionality.

☘️ 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.

🐦 Awesome Builder Post

Larry Salibra built a wallet app that sends sBTC using bitcoin addresses instead of Stacks addresses. Cool! 🔥Check it out below 👇️