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...
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...
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...
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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...
In case you missed it, you can now view the Blockstack Q3 Community Call led by Muneeb Ali, CEO of Blockstack PBC. Muneeb presents Blockstack’s Q3 highlights and answer investor questions live, moderated by Brittany Laughlin, Head of Investor Relations at Blockstack. Some of the topics covered...
We’re pleased to partner with HashKey, Blockstack’s lead investor from Hong Kong, to educate new institutional investors about Blockstack and Web 3 apps and to invest in the future of a user-controlled internet. This partnership contributes to Blockstack’s priority to build a diverse ecosystem of developers, investors, and community members....
At the beginning of May we announced the start of a new movement to take a stand against the broken promises and anti-user practices of big tech companies in the form of the Can’t Be Evil Contest series. We challenged developers to use Blockstack’s decentralized network and developer toolkit to...
Blockstack has partnered with GSR Markets Limited, a Hong Kong limited company, on providing overseas liquidity for the Stacks token (STX). The agreement is filed with the SEC in a Form 1-U. Last week STX began trading on Binance, the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, and Hashkey Pro, Hong Kong’s premiere...
We are pleased to release the Stacks Token Economics Whitepaper v2.0. The paper presents the Stacks token economics and incentive mechanisms. It summarizes the distribution of Stacks tokens in the genesis block, including distributions to early backers, the 2017 accredited offering, and the 2019 SEC-qualified offering, among others. We outline...
Step 1: Log in to your Stacks wallet. Step 2: Click on the gear icon in the top right corner. The Settings dialog appears. To cover the cost of transaction fees, you’ll need to provide BTC for gas. Step 3: Click Add BTC to add Bitcoin for your transaction. The...
San Francisco, Blockstack Summit — After the successful completion of our SEC-qualified offering, we’re now excited to announce the first international (non-US) listings for the Stacks token. Blockstack PBC has partnered with Binance and Hashkey Pro (institutional) exchange for the first listings of the Stacks (STX) token. Binance is the...
