Web3 | Bitcoin | Building @VelumXProtocol - Gasless infrastructure on Stacks | Retired Shitcoiner
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Most teams blame marketing when users ghost them. But the real killer is the onboarding marathon.
At @VelumXProtocol, we’re building gasless infra for Stacks to change that. Let's build stuff people actually finish.
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- STX staked +25% since PoX-5
- >750 BTC bonded in 2 cycles
- 1K+ BTC supplied on Zest
- DEX volume at yearly highs
- sBTC holders at ATH
- Network revenue at yearly high
- 21Shares, HashKey Cloud & UTXO Management in the first institutional BTC staking product with BTC yield
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392M STX restaked after the PoX 5 fork. That's 88% of last cycle's total.
Stacks is growing Bitcoin.
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Stacks DeFi TVL:
@ZestProtocol $64M
@GraniteBTC $7.5M
@HermeticaFi $5.3M
@bitflow $2.6M
Lending holds 90% of it. BTC holders don't want to trade their bitcoin, they want to earn on it without selling. Latest from @castle_labs 👇
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If you understand finance, you want your capital working. If you understand Bitcoin, you want to hold custody.
Stacks is the overlap.
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More than 200 applications were submitted for the Stacks Community DeGrants Cohort 4.
Six projects have been selected to share a combined $25,000 in funding.
Read more about the 6 projects selected to strengthen the Stacks ecosystem.
stacksendowment.co/blog/degr…
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There are less than 5 days left to vote for SIP-044 (Clarity 6) and SIP-045 (Bitcoin Staking).
Make sure to contribute to @Stacks governance system and vote for both SIPs.
ballot.gg/group/752208a9-99b…
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Only 1% of Bitcoin earns yield. Its staking moment is what turns that idle $1.3T into productive capital. From @randgroup 👇
I don't want people to use VelumX.
I want people to use great Bitcoin apps without ever realizing VelumX is working in the background.
That's what great infrastructure looks like.
Invisible to users.
Indispensable to builders.
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Voting on the SIPs for Bitcoin staking and Clarity 6 is ongoing.
It's now time for the Stacks community to vote on both proposals.
Here is a step by step voting guide from a Stacks community leader:
xitter.cf/godfred_xcuz/status/20…
How do I vote on SIP44-45?
Watch me👇 easily approve Bitcoin Staking and Clarity 6 proposals with my blockstack:native
Note that it's a double-vote:
1. Go to ballot.gg/group/752208a9-99b…
2. Connect wallet and sign authentication message
3. Scroll down and select YES (or NO) for first proposal
4. Click Vote now and Approve in your wallet, then click Done
5. Scroll down and select YES (or NO) for second proposal
6. Click Vote now and Approve in your wallet, then click Done
✅ You’re all done 🎉
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1/ Announcing the Q2 2026 Stacks Endowment grantees.
This cycle, we selected 10 teams building across Bitcoin-native finance, liquidity, privacy, and agentic applications. The goal was not to fund the largest number of projects, but to back high-signal teams building work that can compound alongside sBTC, Bitcoin Staking, and Stacks adoption.
Moving toward gasless infrastructure is the right pivot. If we want Web3 to compete with Web2, the cryptoness of the backend needs to be completely abstracted away until the user is already hooked on the value proposition.
Most Web3 teams blame bad marketing when users ghost them. But honestly? The real killer is onboarding.
Wallet install, seed phrase, buy some STX, figure out gas… every extra step is another chance for people to nope out. The best apps let you feel the value first, without forcing you to learn crypto just to try it.
That’s why we’re building gasless infrastructure for Stacks, so users can actually show up and stay. Build stuff people finish, not onboarding marathons.
What’s the biggest onboarding headache you’ve seen (or dealt with) in Web3?
Leprof.stx retweeted
Most Web3 teams blame bad marketing when users ghost them. But honestly? The real killer is onboarding.
Wallet install, seed phrase, buy some STX, figure out gas… every extra step is another chance for people to nope out. The best apps let you feel the value first, without forcing you to learn crypto just to try it.
That’s why we’re building gasless infrastructure for Stacks, so users can actually show up and stay. Build stuff people finish, not onboarding marathons.
What’s the biggest onboarding headache you’ve seen (or dealt with) in Web3?
🤖 Made with AI
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Bitcoin Staking banks its surplus: 15% of every cycle's excess goes into a protocol reserve. After eight simulated years, that buffer covers 1.2 years of yield owed.
Most crypto yield products carry no buffer at all. Research frrom @HouseofChimera 📊
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Update: a fix has been issued and voting is functioning as expected. If you run into any other issues while voting, reach out to community@stacks.org. You can cast your vote here: stx.is/sip44-45. Thank you!
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Community Vote Update: the SIP 044 + SIP 045 voting window is shifting to give CAB groups more time to review and let authors incorporate helpful feedback from the CABs. New vote date is ~July 10 (or sooner, pending CAB approvals). Huge thanks to our CABs who have devoted careful review to SIP 045 in particular! Check out the related discussion here: forum.stacks.org/t/introduci…
