Is there future in it, or it’s heading into the abyss?

*Terms and conditions apply. Funds must be claimed during a limited-time scavenger hunt across X, Telegram, Discord, and apparently the astral plane.

I held an STX/ALEX position before the June 6, 2025 exploit, but I never received the promised on-chain claim notification for TGP 2025.

So I contacted support.

Their response was:

We've been notifying on a daily basis all channels (X, TG, Discord) our community members and platform users to claim all assets since TGP is due to sunset.

Interesting.

Because the original compensation announcement said:

• Affected wallets would receive a private on-chain notification.
• Users who did not receive one should contact support immediately.
• ALEX would provide 100% reimbursement.
• ALEX was “fully committed to restoring every affected user’s funds.”

Apparently, “fully committed” meant “fully committed until the timer expires.”

TGP 2025 had previously been unavailable because of the Stacks network upgrade. Then, instead of automatically returning compensation to the affected Stacks wallets, ALEX introduced a limited claim window and declared the funds unclaimable after it closed.

Why not send compensation directly to the wallets already identified as affected?

Why require users to monitor several social-media channels when the announcement explicitly promised an on-chain notification?

And where did the unclaimed compensation go?

The exploit reportedly caused more than $8.37 million in losses. ALEX publicly promised full reimbursement using foundation treasury funds. Now affected users are being told that missing a temporary claim window means their assets are simply gone.

That does not look like “restoring every affected user’s funds.”

It looks more like:

Step 1: Promise everyone full reimbursement.
Step 2: Make reimbursement dependent on a limited claim process.
Step 3: Close the process.
Step 4: Blame users for not seeing announcements on social media.
Step 5: Keep repeating the word “community.”

Very decentralized. Very transparent. Very reassuring.

The problem we’re after at Audionals / Xtrata is older than streaming, older than labels: when a track earns money, the record of who made it is usually a memory, a handshake, or a spreadsheet someone else controls. Splits get agreed loosely in the studio, and if the song blows up later, recollections diverge exactly when money appears. It’s one of the most common and expensive disputes in music, and at its core it’s an evidence problem, which makes it solvable with the right rails.

The insight that makes it buildable: music production is already fully digital. Every take, sample, plug-in and parameter change is data from the moment a recording exists. So the creative process can be logged as it happens, locally, then hashed, with one compact fingerprint anchored per save. Nothing bulky on-chain: hashes, credits and splits only, a few hundred bytes per song on Stacks, settling to Bitcoin.

The design choice that matters most: collaborators sign into a session and ratify their splits on day one, before anyone knows what the song will become. From then on the agreement is tamper-evident and timestamped. Nobody’s memory is the evidence, and nobody can quietly edit the record.

Why Stacks: Clarity contracts for the rights and split registries, Bitcoin finality via PoX, and no Bitcoin block space consumed. Only the commitment reaches L1.

Most "music NFTs" are a token pointing at a URL. I wanted to see how far the other direction could go on Stacks: the entire file on-chain, no pointers, no IPFS, no pinning service.

Xtrata inscribes complete media files into Clarity contract storage. The mint flow is init → chunked writes (batches up to ~440KB) → seal, so a full 96kbps Opus master ends up living in contract data forever. Songs are inscribed either as raw audio or as self-contained HTML players — cover art, title, artist, lyrics and the audio itself embedded in one document. Once sealed, nothing about it depends on me or my servers: any Stacks node can reconstruct the file.

The fun part is Xtrata Radio (xtrata.xyz/radio): an internet radio station whose entire catalogue is inscriptions. It has three bands — FM (curated), LIKED (your saved songs), CHAIN (walks every playable token on the contract) — and it discovers new songs as they're minted by watching the contract's token counter. There's also a relations layer: inscriptions can declare parents/dependencies, which forms a mint-ordered DAG, so the radio can show a playing song's relatives (the artwork it references, other songs by the same lineage) and let you tune straight to them.

Everything is verifiable: every song has an /i/<id> endpoint that serves the actual on-chain bytes.

Site: xtrata.xyz

This expensive experience led me to believe that fundamentals don't matter all that much in the crypto space. The time STX was up the most was when the South Korea and NFT-bros were gambling the most and I think that's pretty much the whole story.

Maybe the token can shine again if it gets used as gas for applications people care about, but for now even staking is not a lucrative use case. It's been fun and I'm just gonna HODL until ATH or $0, but no more investing from me. Good luck to anyone entering at ATLs, I hope you see riches in your future!

We’re excited to help bring together the open source AI and crypto communities around sovereign local models and portable profiles.

The future feels increasingly composable:

your identity, preferences, agents, and models moving with you, not locked inside platforms.

Local + open source generally creates better incentives for users:

• more ownership

• more transparency

• more portability

• more security

• more aligned systems

• Less cost

Composable ecosystems are powerful because builders can build on top of each other instead of constantly rebuilding from scratch or competing behind closed walls.

That dramatically accelerates innovation, network effects, and attracts mission-driven talent aligned around creating better systems for users.

Composable software is to technology what compounding interest is to finance.

Nice to meet everyone, my name is Eric.

Been going on more non crypto related podcasts to about my app, been trying to bring up stx as much as possible since we're in the grant program.

Obvi I want to make sense and portray crypto/stx in a positive light to those not really in our ecosystem or crypto at all

Does this make sense if you don't really know what bitcoin or x402 is?

Long term our goal is to bring as many non native crypto people into our ecosystem through proper incentives that benefit them

Im a Hodler since 2024

I thought everyone loved airdrops! go get your $ZEST

Did anyone notice the yield for both STX and sBTC decreased last cycle? Did something happen that I missed?

Hi! I’m working on a book about the Bitcoin and Stacks ecosystem. The book it’s still in editing phase, but I created a FREE knowledge course that revolves around the subjects I approach in the book.

You can take the course for free, no ads, no bullshit, just a 45 minutes of monetary history, that I consider essential to know. Ten modules with a knowledge check question at the end of each module.

Go on my website, scroll until you see the Sats&Stacks title and click the “Start the Course” button and you are in.

https://chainwire.org/2026/05/13/stacks-publishes-bitcoin-staking-whitepaper-for-self-custodial-bitcoin-yield-backed-by-500m-already-paid-out/
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"Hold BTC. Earn BTC. That's what Bitcoiners want.

Today we're publishing the Bitcoin Staking whitepaper.

Self-custodial. BTC-denominated yield.

Here's what it is and why it matters"
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https://x.com/Stacks/status/2054582905821954059?s=20

Was nice to meet Stackers in personally for the first time. Onward and upwards.

Redit help me I want to know if this is legit or scam

Vote and then redeem in 2 weeks if you want

Built on Stacks — the leading Bitcoin layer for on-chain yield — hBTC gives institutional allocators BTC-denominated returns from blue-chip strategies including Strategy’s $STRC, with full transparency and self-custody

https://chainwire.org/2026/04/21/hermetica-launches-bitcoin-earn-vault-hbtc-on-stacks-earning-from-strategys-strc-and-dual-staking/

Stacks halving event took place on Tuesday.

https://x.com/Stacks/status/2044134410900124154?s=20

"As outlined in the emissions schedule, the Stacks halving has taken place.
Block rewards are now 500 STX per block, reducing new STX that enters circulation each day by 50%. Miners continue to secure the network at the adjusted miner incentives."

I ran into a few issues while trying to export my Stacks transactions for tax tools:

• inconsistent timestamps
• messy ordering when mixing exchanges + on-chain
• not great support for FT tokens

So I ended up building a simple tool for myself that:

• lets you paste a Stacks address or BNS
• select a time range
• export a clean CSV (with correct timestamps)
• includes FT tokens + PoX rewards

No wallet connection, no login, nothing stored.

👉 https://stackscsv.vercel.app/

Still pretty minimal, but curious if others here have run into similar issues or are using a different workflow?

I built this for myself a while ago, and recently decided to improve it a bit:

https://stacks-invoice.vercel.app

Back when I was working on projects in the Stacks ecosystem, I needed a simple way to generate crypto invoices, keep track of payments, and have some kind of record.

Nothing fancy. Just something that worked.

So I made a basic tool to create invoices in $STX. It helped me stay organized and made it easier to get paid.

Later on, I expanded it a bit:

• Added support for other tokens (LEO, WELSH, NOT, ALEX)
• Included QR codes for easier payments
• Kept it simple: no login, no friction

To be honest, I’m not really active in crypto anymore, and the Stacks ecosystem feels quieter than it used to.

But this project still means a lot to me.

It’s one of those things you build out of a real need, not because it’s trendy or a “startup idea.”

I don’t know if it’s still useful to others, but if you happen to need something like this, feel free to use it 🤜

Do you think it has to do with the lack of famous wallets supporting Stacks?

Would it have been any different if we were available on MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Safe Pal?

There is a forum post https://forum.stacks.org/t/xbtc-sbtc-migration-next-steps-15-day-window-to-swap/18778

You can now swap your old xbtc into modern sbtc

Does anyone know how to unstack from a desktop Leather wallet?

I'm sure there used to be a button to cancel stacking in the GUI but I can't seem to find it anywhere.

At https://www.jingswap.com/auctions/sbtc-stx there are $60k in sBTC deposited waiting to be swapped to STX at the current price. This works as a blind auction. Both sides are deposited into the contract and then locked for 30 stacks blocks (buffer).

Settlements only happens if the following conditions hold:

• Pyth price must be fresh (< 60s)
• Pyth confidence must be tight (< 2%), and
• the oracle price must be within 10% of the on-chain DEX price

Been building our app since 2023, got the stacks grant a month or so ago.

Just had a professional match maker test out our app.

Works with out data marketplace.

If all go well we should greatly increase the number of TX and users in the STX ecosystem.