It was another eventful and fruitful quarter for the Blockstack ecosystem. As we do quarterly, we recently shared some high-level updates about the ecosystem. In this post, we’ll dive deeper into developer experience specific updates...
Late in 2018, Blockstack PBC launched App Mining, a unique pilot program designed to incentivize developers to build apps on Blockstack and accelerate the growth of a user-owned internet. Throughout 2019, App Mining has been...
→View the full Proof of Transfer draft whitepaper We’ve seen a lot of innovation in the crypto industry in the last 10 years. Bitcoin gives us a store of value and digital reserve cryptocurrency. Smart...
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On Wed Jan 29th, Blockstack PBC announced that we successfully met Milestone 2 for initial network growth. There have been some questions regarding username registrations vs. active users. In this post I will shed more light on the initial network growth and measurement limitations on the network. Per our announcement,...
We’re happy to announce that Blockstack PBC has successfully achieved Milestone 2, unlocking approximately $6.8 million, net of expenses and cryptocurrency value adjustments, in additional funding from our December 2017 token offering. We structured the 2017 Blockstack token offering such that the majority of the capital would only be unlocked...
Blockstack PBC has been focused on developer traction since the launch of Stacks blockchain 1.0 in late 2018. As a result of that work, 2019 saw the number of apps built on the Blockstack network grow from 46 to more than 360. In the second half of 2019, we also...
In October 2019, we announced that Blockstack PBC partnered with Blockchain.com, a leading provider of cryptocurrency products and creator of one of the most popular crypto wallets, to bring Stacks tokens (STX) and Blockstack apps to their users. We’ve successfully completed the first phase of this partnership. In the most...
It’s been a long-standing tradition for Blockstack PBC to release an annual hard fork update. The latest, which completed on January 17th, materialized the Blockchain.com Stacks (STX) distribution. In the process, the full set of addresses from the Blockchain.com distribution were granted Stacks tokens, bringing the approximate number of Stacks...
Today, we’re proposing a potential major improvement to the Stacks consensus algorithm. Stacks 2.0 is expected to launch in Q2 this year. Stacks 2.0 is a major upgrade of the Stacks blockchain with a new Rust implementation, native Stacks mining, Clarity smart contract language, and other significant improvements. The current implementation...
Thank you to everyone that participated in the third Can't Be Evil contest and built apps that can't abuse their users. It's our honor to introduce the winners of Part 3 below. A reminder that 1st Prize Winners are receiving $5,000 in cash, plus other prizes and experiences. 2nd Prize...
At Blockstack’s 4th Annual Summit, held on October 23 in San Francisco, angel investor and entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan defined pseudonymity and explained why we should consider a pseudonymous economy. What is Pseudonymity? First things first: what, exactly, is pseudonymity? Srinivasan started by comparing 3 forms of online...
At Blockstack’s 4th Annual Summit in October, entrepreneur and angel investor Naval Ravikant sat down for a fireside chat with one of his heroes, speculative fiction writer and tech consultant Neal Stephenson. The two touched discussed Stephenson’s new novel, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, in which the...
