“The history of smart contracts is really the history of smart contract bugs.” - Aaron Blankstein, Blockstack PBC If you’ve heard of smart contracts, you’ve...

It’s time for the annual hard fork of 2019. This is something we’ve done every year since 2015 to release backward-incompatible protocol fixes and upgrades....

How an open blockchain arrives at consensus over the state of its ledger is a key element not just for security of the system but...

Today, we're excited to announce details for the hard fork that will introduce the genesis block of the Stacks blockchain. The launch of the Stacks...

We’re pleased to announce the successful execution of the third annual hard fork of Blockstack Core. The upgrades are released in Blockstack Core version 0.17....

This is the largest release of Blockstack Core since the initial release in September 2015 and is a major update. Version 0.14 is a hard...

We are pleased to announce that our work on the open-source Virtualchain library has been published at the first workshop on Distributed Cryptocurrencies and Consensus...