🟧 @Stacks explained #28: How to stack STX Three common routes, all earning BTC from the same source. Pools: delegate your STX to a pool like @TheFastPool or through @xverse. No minimum to hit alone, the pool handles signing. Liquid stacking: deposit STX with @StackingDao and receive stSTX. The yield accrues inside the token, and you can still trade it or use it as collateral. Solo: lock directly and run or delegate signing yourself, if you meet the minimum. Pick by how much you hold and whether you need the STX to stay liquid.

The retail door to Bitcoin Staking just opened, one day early, through @TheFastPool 👇 Esbee DAO is a pool. Put in sBTC plus a bit of STX (about 5% of your position), the pool bonds it into Bitcoin Staking, and you earn the bond's 3% target, paid in Bitcoin. What makes it worth a look: 🐝 Nobody owns the pool. Decisions are made by a vote of the people in it, and big depositors do not get to outvote everyone else 🔁 It re-bonds automatically. When one six-month bond ends, the pool rolls straight into the next one. You do not have to exit and re-enter 📊 Fair split. Your share of the yield is based on how much you had in the pool during the period, not on timing ₿ Two ways in. Deposit sBTC you already have, or send BTC from your own wallet and it converts for you 🔓 Until the pool actually stakes, your deposit stays yours and you can withdraw any time No whitelist. This is the open path the Genesis Bond kept for everyone outside the institutional cohort, and Fast Pool has opened it. One thing to know first: once a period starts, leaving early means giving up that period's yield. Think of it as a six-month commitment, because that is what a bond is. If you have sBTC and a little STX, link in the first reply. @Stacks Disclosure: I hold BTC and STX.

Bitcoin Staking enrollment opens on @Stacks at block 966,350. Here is what I am watching, in order 👇 1⃣ How fast the first tranche fills Capacity is capped and released on a rolling basis. If the institutional slice fills in hours, that is the demand signal. If it sits, that is a signal too. Either way, no press release needed. It is on-chain. 2⃣ Whether the pooled slice fills as fast as the institutional one Roughly 10% of each period is open access, no whitelist, live through @xverse and @TheFastPool. Two doors, same product. How each one fills tells its own story. 3⃣ The STX/BTC ratio, not the STX price Bond capacity scales with what STX is worth in Bitcoin terms. If the ratio climbs after enrollment, the next tranche can be bigger. If it does not, capacity stalls. This one chart decides the flywheel. 4⃣ Who name four is Three institutions are in: a Nasdaq-listed treasury, Asia's largest staking provider, an ETP issuer. Muneeb said a new partner every month. The fourth name tells you whether the cadence is real. 5⃣ The first reward payment, ~September 17 Paid in sBTC weekly, funded by miner bids. When the first payout lands, the product goes from "announced" to "paid." None of this is a prediction. It is a map of where the evidence will appear, so you can read it before someone tells you what it means. What is on your list? Disclosure: I hold BTC and STX.