Mission DeFi EP 65 - DeFi on Bitcoin?!? - The Stacks ecosystem is growing fast & our guests are the foundations of it - Kyle Ellicott, Albert Liang, & Will Corcoran
Really enjoyed this interview with the Stacks funding ecosystem team. Amazing path forward for Stacks and the massive opportunity for DeFi on Bitcoin.
Project Name: Stacks
Project URL(see more below): https://stacks.co
Guests:
- Will Corcoran - Grants at the Stacks Foundation - https://twitter.com/corcoranwill
- Kyle Ellicott of Stacks Ventures - https://twitter.com/kyleellicott
- Albert Liang of the BTC Startup Lab - https://twitter.com/btc_albert
What we covered:
- What Stacks is and how it functions
- All about the funding, grant, and accelerator ecosystem around Stacks
- How they plan to plan and build a massive environment
- What money is available and how to get it to build on Stacks
- How to learn the language Clarity that powers smart contracts on Stacks
- Why they believe Clarity is a safer, more secure and better language
Resources
- Stacks.org - Foundation and grants - https://Stacks.org
- Stacks.co - Tech and development resources - https://stacks.co
- Stacks Ventures - https://stacksventures.io/
- Stacks Accelerator - https://stacks.ac/
- CityCoins.co - CityCoins protocol information - https://CityCoins.co
- Hiro - Tech tools and resources - https://www.hiro.so/
- Clarity Universe - https://clarity-lang.org/universe
- Clarity of Mind - Book on how to write smart contracts in Clarity - https://book.clarity-lang.org/title-page.html
- NFT marketplace and data on Stacks - https://byzantion.xyz/
- DAO tools on Stacks - https://www.console.xyz/ - twitter.com/consoledao
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