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Stacks Roadmap
Recorded: March 31, 2026 Duration: 0:57:58Space Recording
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. Thank you. so who's gonna take lead on humming the uh the intro music because it's really quiet in here
there is that you i forget maybe marvin i see marvin
no one wants that Thank you. All right.
Here's some folks are having some audio issues.
Test, test, test.
Can anyone hear me?
Any speakers, that is.
Rick can hear me.
Great, I can hear you.
I got a thumbs up from Rubes.
I got a clap from Marvin.
Thank you, Marvin.
Let's see.
Marvin, I don't know if Lewis, I don't see Lewis here,
but the writer email this morning was hilarious, and it's been been passed around the old office so
nice work
all right i see a thumbs up from Alexis.
Rick or Kate, I'll just let you guys tell me when you'd like me to kick off. So I'm ready to go whenever.
Sounds good.
Let's try to get one more person up.
And after that, I feel like we should be good to go.
Sounds great. Thank you. Okay, I think we're good to go to kick things off.
Great. All right. Welcome, everybody. I will not do the patented Kyle intro because I'll just
mess it up, but I'm just going to say I'm super excited to see everybody. This is the second
roadmap session that we've had. So I wanted to start today with giving you all a little bit of a brief recap on that,
framing up today's discussion,
and then we'll let the guest speakers that we have introduce themselves as well.
But over the last couple of weeks,
we've been gathering input, feedback, questions, and so forth
to do what we do every year in the Stacks ecosystem,
which is to revisit the current Stacks roadmap,
make sure it makes sense, gather feedback from the community,
and then synthesize a public roadmap that we're all aligned on and clear on.
So we're back at it again for 2026.
And I'm going to give you guys some sort of framing, helpful, hopefully framing things for how we want to look at this session and what we want to get out of the session.
And I'm going to give you guys some sort of framing,
So primarily with these roadmap sessions, we are the major current blockers for your applications to grow or to thrive?
And so we worked through some of those.
I'll give you guys a little insight onto the main topics of discussion there.
Always helpful to think in terms of things like user stories. So a user can do X or Y and sort of walk
us through why is that important or what is the use case that that activates. We're looking for
answers to questions such as if we changed X tomorrow, what specific metric in your app could
change? Or if X existed, I could unlock Y.
If we don't have X by the next growth inflection,
the pain would look like Y, right?
So some of these, if this, then that statements are useful.
So as we're discussing today and working through your questions,
I know a lot of the speakers will really appreciate
pushing towards specificity as much as possible,
because that specificity is what will help the core developers really wrangle what it is that we're going to prioritize for building based on the different levels of impact that they are,
both from technical, but y'all are trying to grow applications, we're trying to grow the network,
what's going to have the biggest impact on Stacks' ability to grow going forward. So I think as we get into things, I may jump in as your moderator and just sort of
pokes us into those areas the best that I can. And then we'll also be hearing today from the
folks leading various work streams that are already ongoing. Obviously, we don't just think
about the roadmap once a year, though we do these
bigger sessions to update it and kind of make sure we're all on the same page. These are discussions
that are ongoing all the time. And a lot of the work streams that we heard from our builders with
a thousand plus users were pretty consistent and are things that are already reflected on the
roadmap in some way. And so before we jump into today's session, I actually just want to run you guys through a few of
what they had to say. And just so you have a basic sort of baseline of what that discussion was,
and then we'll be sharing those notes with all of these session recaps in the coming weeks as well.
Before I do that, though, I just want to mention the way this process will culminate.
If you haven't been involved with it before, I think it bears repeating.
What we'll do is we'll have these multiple open sessions.
This is building upon the weekly calls with builders.
Gather all of the feedback, and then it'll be synthesized into an updated version of the roadmap that'll be shared on stacks.co.
Current version needs some love,
and we want to make sure before we just arbitrarily update the roadmap
that we're working through a community process to make sure everyone's heard.
This year, we plan to introduce a new wrinkle to the roadmap as well,
which will probably result in the roadmap looking
a little bit different. And the main reason is we've gathered feedback over the last couple
years, actually, that while it's nice to try to project dates and deadlines and specifics like
that, oftentimes that we're learning new information along the way. Those things get perceived as promises or guarantees,
and then we're all disappointed when new information comes in
and we need to change.
And so the new version of the roadmap,
as we synthesize all of your feedback from these sessions,
will look a lot more like pointing where we're going
and the types of outcomes that we want to generate.
The specifics of certain features or issues or
when releases are happening, that stuff is going to move to sort of the GitHub layer where most of
the builders, you guys are already tracking those things there anyway. So it's not to say that that
kind of information, particularly as a release is coming up, won't still be available and there
won't still be that strong communication between the app builders and core developers,
that's not going away.
But what we put forward as a roadmap
is going to be a lot more oriented around
where the network is going, why it's going there,
the rationale behind that, and how do we actually get there
and the outcomes that when these things launch,
what will be true?
Alexis is leading those efforts.
So as we bring her up,
she could say more about exactly what that looks like.
Hopefully I didn't butcher it too bad.
Just wanted you guys to have the high level picture that all of these sessions aren't just going to be,
hey, we all sit around and talk
and throw wishes at the wall.
There will be very specific follow-up that results in an update to the roadmap that, we all sit around and talk and throw wishes at the wall, there will be very
specific follow-up that results in an update to the roadmap that we can all be proud of and be
excited about and share with the world. So that's where we're going. Where we're at today is the
second session, as I mentioned. And before we hop into it and I tee up all these amazing product
folks to take questions, I'll just want to cover some of
the super high level notes that we had from the builder session last week. One of the first
topics, which is one of the work streams that I mentioned that's actually already in progress,
is just capacity and throughput. And I think every blockchain in the world is working through
how can we do more, how can we do more faster? And importantly, I'll
also say that came up in this conversation was how can we do more faster, but also balance the
cost that it takes to run nodes and signers and things like that. So that was all great discussion.
There were mentions of things like SBTC as fees, like can we make the UX UI even easier around bridging? Can we reduce confirmations safely on the SBTC bridge?
Can we use, you know, can we remove Stacks as Gas
or at least add other options like SBTC?
That was an interesting discussion,
which we've seen before in the community as well.
We talked through different integrations
that people would like to see.
Seems like Fireblocks and Ledger Live were at the top of those lists.
We also got into a bit of WASM, which would be a major sort of pathway to increasing Stacks overall throughput and capacity.
That is work that's actually already in progress.
We believe this sort of transaction type prioritization work stream may also be a part of that,
helps market makers and things.
And there is a conversation around,
what does sustainable feed growth look like?
Do we feel like we're set up for the future there?
And then pivoting into infrastructure
and integrations and partners.
In the infrastructure section,
there was talk of what could the Stacks Explorer 2.0
look like, especially with all the AI activity
that's been on chain, that's been great to see.
Is there a way that we can even have
a more DeFi native explorer?
And can we surface more bridge metrics,
more tracking information, volume, etc. Like,
what would a SPACs 2.0 explorer look like potentially? There was discussion of data
analytics options here and, again, some of the node conversation. And then I already mentioned
some of the partners, so I think we'll skip that, but I'm sure we'll hear more from that today.
There was discussion around, hey,
can we get more wallet support in the ecosystem by going to some known wallets? I mentioned Ledger
Live. Rubes mentioned a Relay Bridge would be great. So again, all these notes will be shared.
You don't have to remember all of them. Just wanted to give you guys a flavor of what the
builders had already discussed. And it was a great conversation. So we appreciate everyone who showed up.
And with that, I am going to stop talking now
and I believe bring up Alexis or Rick.
Rick, I'm sorry, I'm not sure actually who's going after me,
but we're going to get into some of the questions
that we've gathered from the community
so that all the product experts that you know and love
all the product experts that you know and love can speak to them.
can speak to them.
Yeah, so thank you, Mitchell.
Quick introduction. I'm Rick. I'm part of Stacks Labs.
And over the last few days, I've been collecting questions
from people in the community about the future of Stacks,
about the roadmap, and we'll hopefully get to those.
But I have gathered questions from
also people like trip a monkey gpsc grimardo and others and i also see that you guys are listening
in so if you guys prefer to join the stage instead then please request because we'd love to have a
discussion about it with you guys and get deeper into all of the details. One of the questions that I wanted to tee things off with
is one by Trip and Monkey who asks,
will the roadmap ever contain anything fun for people to do
who are low on liquidity?
And I would translate that to maybe not everyone in the community
is sitting on significant capital.
So what's on the roadmap that maybe lowers the barrier to participation and are there
plans for maybe smaller denomination entry points into staking or lightweight apps and
experiences that let people engage with the network without maybe needed liquidity or
perhaps from a startup accelerator angle,
are there places where apps focusing on non-staking
or yielding use cases can kick off
that build a journey on stacks?
Yeah, I think that maybe summarizes TripMonkey,
but again, if he wants to join on stage,
that he should definitely do so.
Siat.
Yeah, that's a great question.
I'll give Alexis a minute to get up here.
Maybe she has some comments, but I will say from one angle, people might not be aware
of because we haven't talked about it too much yet.
But there are some folks in the ecosystem working on, much like we had the Stacks
Accelerator, bringing in new teams. There's actually a lot of really interesting interest
in Stacks right now. As we've seen out there, different Bitcoin layers have come and gone.
And so what we've found is that there's these teams that really want to build on Bitcoin and are sort of discovering or rediscovering stacks. And what we've been doing
is actually working with a recruiter to help us find these teams and pipe them down the path where
it's not always funding that they need. It's sometimes just access to expertise and to,
hey, how do I get started in the ecosystem? Is there a clarity expert here?
I need an auditor there. Those kinds of things that we can easily guide folks on. And the reason
I'm mentioning this in response to that question is several of the teams that we've been exploring
with and trying to support bringing into the ecosystem are non-financial use cases.
into the ecosystem are non-financial use cases. There's a game that's in the mix. There's a social
sort of network type thing that's in the mix. And then, you know, looking in our own ecosystem as
well, I think a place that I highly recommend people spend more time on is Zero Authority DAO.
We've been working with them at the Stacks Foundation to build better governance tooling.
And really, those don't cost anything to participate in.
And there's a whole social layer there as well.
And I know they're working on some phenomenal AI tools
to help you explore the ecosystem, connect with each
other, find gigs, none of which require a big bag.
And so I think reviewing some of those, some that exist already,
and then looking forward to some of the apps that may enter as well.
Stacks as a base layer is just so flexible.
You can do so many things with it.
And then the last one I'll mention is in the interim grant program,
I'll give Zenitron a shout out.
There's a game being built.
There's actually, I think, two different games being built
in the interim grant program.
I'm not going to mention the names because I don't want to get them wrong, but also a place that doesn't require a huge amount of money.
So I get excited about those, but I'd always like to see more.
And then sort of playing my moderator role, if Trippin Monkey's around, I'd love to hear your ideas.
What are the things that you think would be exciting for people to come do that don't require a lot of funding you know is there a specific thing that you have in mind or is it just
hey broad spectrum there should be five or six or ten or twenty things that folks can do that
don't require capital
Sweet. Yeah, as we wait to...
Well, that was a question, but I guess he's not on stage, so we'll figure...
We can figure that out later, but...
I think it's a great question, and I'm with you there.
I miss the days when the NFT community was super hot.
I know folks are still grinding away there,
not taking anything away,
but there was always so much to do
with the different collections coming out
and things like, you know,
Lunar Crush's collection and so forth.
And so I definitely love the notion
of just making sure that we have more fun things
for people to engage with
because you never know where it's going to go from there.
And well, actually I'll give Diego a shout out here to one of the suggestions Diego had in the
last roadmap session was just, hey, where can Stacks as an ecosystem better connect with the
runes community on Bitcoin? Despite the narrative that runes is dead, they're very much not.
It's a huge percentage of the activity on the Bitcoin L1.
It's be interesting,
what are the things that we can get Runes people
who is a very excited, fervent community
to come do and get value from on stacks?
Like what would that look like?
What could we do?
So that might be another avenue as well where,
yes, they're assets,
but there's also a whole kind of flurry of different things
you can do in and around those assets that people might be interested in playing with.
Hey everyone, I'm happy to chime in here as well. Can you hear me okay? Maybe if you can give me a quick thumbs up.
I'm happy to chime in here as well.
Can you hear me OK?
Maybe if you can give me a quick thumbs up.
Awesome. Well, yeah, first of all, good to see you all here.
I know I know a lot of people here in the audience,
but in case we haven't met yet, my name is Andre.
I lead product in the Stacks ecosystem.
A lot of my focus is on ecosystem growth,
supporting applications,
everything from new applications for yield generation, focusing on growth drivers for
the ecosystem, as well as sort of the future of more of our Bitcoin native growth programs.
So things like SBTC and Bitcoin staking and future privacy primitives and things
like that. So it's always good to have these sorts of calls, get a chance to hear from
builders in the ecosystem about what we can do to improve the Stacks blockchain and the
core developer experience. I'll maybe just add on quickly to what Mitchell was saying
there on DrivenMonkey's question, which is just
bringing it back to why we're here in the first place, which is ultimately to activate the Bitcoin
economy. And so when I think about that, it really does encompass a broad range of use cases beyond
just the core financial. I think a lot of the use cases that we've seen over the past year have been driven from
demand from users that are seeking Bitcoin as a form of collateral and store value.
And it's why I think we see a lot of builders focusing on yield generation and things like
that.
But it's certainly not limited to that.
I think that now is probably the best time to start to explore Bitcoin for payments and SBDC for payments.
So you know, so Stacks is already supported in X402. So you can experiment with doing micropayments
for agent transactions on chain. There's the ability to earn BTC through things like Zero Authority DAO and bounties and things
like that.
And I do think that we are at the cusp of a resurgence in on-chain gaming and social.
In a lot of ways, some of these cases were tried in the NFT era back in 2021. But I do think that now there are so many tools that exist that give
developers and creators the ability to experiment with novel forms of engagement and being able
to interact with Bitcoin on chain and fun and interesting ways. And so we're early to
a lot of these things right now. But I think these are some of the things that excite me about where the Bitcoin ecosystem is headed and the possibility to experiment
in some of these more novel non-financial use cases as well.
Awesome.
I see Xeni Tron has joined the stage.
Before I want to give him the word, I want to stay with Andre for one community question.
Sungmin, or BTC Layer on X, he requested utilization and assets appreciation of the institution's BTC inflow. And Sungmin, I think here, is asking about the BTC
in relation to the SDX angle
as more institutional Bitcoin flows into the ecosystem.
And he may request what's on the roadmap
to make sure that it translates into real utilization
and value accrual for the network and the native assets.
So maybe, Andre, you can expand a little bit on this
if you want to,
from a product perspective. I know there's a lot of research and development going on around
Bitcoin staking, sub-consodial Bitcoin staking, and then there's already the dual stacking,
which does tie SDX already into BTC inflow. So there's some interesting early signals here too.
So yeah, Andre, I don't know how much you already can say publicly about the research and developments,
but if you have some early thoughts here, how different dual staking mechanisms contribute to this and other ecosystems or anything else,
as much as you can say, I would love your thoughts here.
Yeah, sure. So at the highest level, a lot of our strategy comes down to when we're thinking about activating the Bitcoin
economy, it's like, how do we onboard more Bitcoiners and pools of Bitcoin capital into
the ecosystem? And so I think of Bitcoin staking as a mechanism to really onboard the next
generation of Bitcoiners into on-chain financial applications.
And so from that perspective, it's really a top of funnel approach to onboard new users.
But when we think about these sorts of upgrades,
everything is done from the lens of what is going to be valuable and useful
for the Stacks ecosystem and Stacks holders as well. And so
value accrual is a key part of that. We saw that in the rollout of the first dual stacking app
that launched in Q4 last year, where there are direct incentives for if you come in and you bring Bitcoin to the network,
you're holding SPTC, you can earn additional incentives and boost your rewards by also
holding STX alongside it. That was kind of an MVP or proof of concept to prove that we can tie the utility of Bitcoin in the network to the value of the underlying
stacked blockchain and the STX token itself. And so, yeah, to your point, Rick, we've been doing
a lot of research and development this year on how we can apply the learnings that we've gotten
from that and basically double down on this approach.
And so we're going to be releasing more information on this publicly over the upcoming weeks.
So I won't go too deep into the weeds here.
But what I can say at a high level is that we are looking at ways
that we can enshrine that mechanism or similar mechanisms
into the core protocol and looking at the
ways that we can create this flywheel effect where bringing in more Bitcoin capital into
the ecosystem can increase the utility of the network, the ad transaction fees, and
increase the value of SCX itself.
So that's how we think about it at the highest level.
Amazing.
Xenitron, I see you joined the stage.
Anything that you want to share or request?
Hello.
Thanks for having me here.
We are building Strikepe on Stux and we believe we can test it
all of us together in two weeks
and I want to say
I agree with
Mitchell and
their real good products don't need
a lot of money. It's about
good ideas and with
wipe coding helps a lot
and AI and I'm building right now with my team and we
will do our best to bring fun to community to stocks and to the whole crypto because
there is no narrative but we're trying to do something really new and fresh. And thanks for CIP31 grants,
because we are doing everything in public.
I can show a lot with screenshots,
but better to weigh the product
and feel on your own experience.
Yeah, we are working to bring something new.
Thanks, everyone. Amazing. I do want to also move things to Rupes, founder of Ternero and founding member of the
Leo community. He has also been collecting a couple of questions from the community. I think
yesterday he put a post out about what different things should be added to the Stacks roadmap or to the future of Stacks. And so, yeah, we'd love to
hear from him if there's any that he wanted to also throw out here on stage.
Yeah. Hey, thanks, Rick, for passing it to me. Good to be here. Good to talk out in the open
about the roadmap and see what's going on. I've been part of several quite exciting conversations
behind the scenes. So yeah, I think 2026 is looking very positive and I'm very excited
for the kind of progression of where things are going. Like Rick said, I have been collecting a
few kind of messages and a lot of them are very common themed. I think probably about 80 or 90
percent were probably community themed. I do want to add a little note on that. I know we've covered it slightly,
but I was kind of involved in the latter period
of the D-grants section and kind of an overview
in some of the SIP 31 grants and so on.
And I would say a lot of the projects that were involved,
there were kind of community onboarding
and haven't actually necessarily come to full fruition yet.
And I think we'll see a lot of that in the coming months.
And especially with the recent
grant program as well which was the kind of like startup side of things I think a lot of that again
is is gaming and so on so I think we will expect to see a lot more fun kind of community things on
on stacks in the future one of the questions that I did have though and I'm kind of teeing you up
here Rick and passing the mic back to you, was from Grimaldo.
And he was asking about onboarding and education.
It could be a question for Andre as well, actually.
And how is Stacks making transactions, apps, interactions easier to understand for non-technical
users?
So reducing that barrier to entry.
I'd say this part may not be specifically for the core engineers and for the roadmap itself, but I do want to say and give a shout out
to the content guilds as well as the STX Legion and some of the people who have been creating a lot of content to dissect some of these more technical type of applications and really educate new users and helping to onboard new users and understand these type of more difficult concepts. Roobs, I also know you've been doing a lot to create tutorials and guides for things like AI BTC depth
that people are very excited about
and to make sure that people have an easy path
to creating that first AI Bitcoin agents on Stacks
and to get it to actually do things on the Stacks network.
So there's a lot of great programs out there
that we're trying to scale up
further for content creators and for people who do want to help with the onboarding process.
But then I'll also know that as part of this roadmap discussion as well, there's ideas to work
closely and more closely with wallets and work more closely with people to make sure that we can improve the user experience
and the interfaces of some of the apps
that are part of the Stacks network.
So yeah, maybe Andre or Mitchell or someone else,
if you want to chime in as well, definitely go ahead.
Yeah, well, I can just add a couple of things from the product side. So I mean, in general,
the way that we think about this is how can we simplify the onboarding process into Stacks
and ideally be able to abstract away a lot of the complexity behind the hood,
of how things work sort of behind the hood. So there's a couple of components around this that I think can help to really improve
the onboarding for new users and non-technical users.
One is just the concept of fee abstraction
and really being able to, you know,
removing the requirement to go and get a separate asset in order to start transacting
on the network.
So if you want to onboard into Stacks, maybe you can do a sponsored transaction, you onboard
your Bitcoin and basically a mechanism under the hood can convert that into STX and pay
the gas fee.
Or if you onboard into USDCX, a similar process can take place under
the hood. And so certain things like just fee abstraction and removing the more technical
components of interacting with blockchains, I think can go a long way to onboarding more
mainstream users. And the second thing is that I think that the next wave of Stacks applications
can really look at this user experience holistically,
think about the entire user journey for how someone would come into Stacks
and start interacting with the network, make their first transactions,
things like just better on-ramps in general.
So working with payment providers where essentially in one click,
you can go from your fiat in your bank account to STX or SPTC
and transacting on the network without having to go through multiple hops.
I think these things make a big improvements.
We're also looking at areas like reducing the amount
of confirmations and trying to make the experience feel
as seamless and fast and yeah,
just as transparent as possible throughout that process.
So, you know, there's just a few things
that I think we are doing and that can really
make a big difference in terms of onboarding more non-technical and more mainstream users.
Yeah, thanks guys. And then one of the other questions that I had, which again might be back to you, I'm sorry, Andre, for giving you the mic back, but is a question from StaxArt, a community member who's asking about the BNS protocol.
Now, I know last year there was on the roadmap was zone file standardization, and they were asking whether it's actually occurred already, because it was on the roadmap for 2025. And also they're asking about progress on DNS bridges.
Interesting.
So I'm actually not familiar with the status
of those two updates in particular.
So I might need to pass the mic either to maybe Mitchell
or Alexis, who might be up to speed there.
But at a more general level, I can say that I think that Bitcoin identity is something that would be very impactful for this experience.
Again, going back to the previous point of being able to create more mainstream applications.
kind of being able to create more mainstream applications.
And yeah, just identity is an area
that is definitely an opportunity there
for developers to create some applications,
some Bitcoin native applications.
Hey folks, I can speak to that slightly.
BNS is something that we talk about a lot internally. And I think the biggest thing I hear about BNS is like us to invest in, I would love to hear that.
Talk through it on the forum maybe and understand that because I do agree that the identity system is really interesting and useful.
And especially as we continue to grow the DeFi ecosystem, we'll want to invest in that so that people can have their identities tied to their apps as we expand that out.
That's pretty much it.
Hi, thanks for having me.
You guys don't hear me talk a lot.
I tend to be a little bit more on the listening side, but I really appreciate these sessions.
I appreciate you joining us on stage, Alexis.
I do want to, I'm maybe going to continue, Rubes is grilling on Andre,
but obviously other people should chime in here as well.
And also again, if anyone wants to join on stage
to discuss this with some of the product people
of Stacks and of Core Engineering,
then definitely please request
so that we can add you on stage.
I have two questions that are in a similar area.
So once in a lifetime, great adds,
he asks timeline for bringing SBTC to other chains like Solana and Sui.
And then Yamaneko or Tetei Neko if I pronounce it correctly, requests listing of SBTC on centralized exchanges as well as listing SDX on the Japanese centralized exchanges.
So maybe keeping it at SBTC. I do want to add to
that maybe what the current thinking is of SBTC as a multi-chain asset and what are we doing to
bring SBTC itself to a broader audience. Because I can see a world where cross-chain expansion
should be on the roadmap right now, but we're also obviously really focused on bootstrapping liquidity for our own apps and our own network and driving
value accrual for SDX and network. So I do think there's two different ways to go about this,
and I'm curious what you guys' thoughts there are as well. Yeah, I'm happy to take that first.
Rick, I think that you're getting at the heart of attention. I think that, you know, we've certainly seen demand from users in other ecosystems like Solana and Sui to be able to transact with SBTC.
we're really focused on developing the Bitcoin native ecosystem on stacks because that's where
there is the most amount of direct benefit to our builders and really where we can most likely see
the economic flywheel take off where we're actually generating more transaction fees on
the network and thereby increasing the amount of network utility
and incentives for developers and builders
to come and join the network.
So it's really just a matter of priorities
and what we want to do first,
and that's where we're focused for now.
On the listing side,
so SBDC is listed on both Gate and MexE.
So those listings went live towards the end of last year.
I know that there are a few more in the pipelines, but those are the biggest
exchanges where you can transact on centralized exchanges at the moment.
Speaking of someone who has been mentioned a couple of times and received a lot of shout
outs from mitch already zero i see you joined the stage as well anything you you want to add here
hey hey hey hey hey hey what's up what's up what's up, what's up, what's up, Stacks Connect of stacks you guys know i'm bullish on stacks i'm bullish on bitcoin we're not going anywhere
we're not quitting we're not giving up we're still here we're all building we're all showing up every
day a couple things that i was just listening in and tuning in uh a lot of builders are still
building a lot of great activity still going on a couple of thoughts as we've started to have
a lot of these conversations behind the
scenes and actively in the community. Something that stands out is the need to help builders
onboard the next 100,000, the next 1 million people, right? So as we enter this new world with
AI capabilities, blockchain, pseudo AI with blockchain in the background, we're all
thinking, how can we up-level our applications, our protocols to onboard these people? At Zero
Authority, we want to allow more participation. We want to act as the gate to stacks and onboard the people, allow people to build a reputation,
allow people to have these profiles where you can finally bring that visibility and see,
I've done a gig with someone. I've joined a quest for Leo, for Welsh, for Arcadico, for Ryder,
and Fastpool. I've done these things. I've been a part of the community.
I've done some bounties, right?
So all of that is great.
And then where we see all of these Lego blocks coming together,
whether it's on the BNS side with identity,
whether it's on the NFT side and I'm participating in a community
or I'm going to start building an application,
one of the things we all need to think through and keep thinking about is how do I make the data
in my protocol and application widely accessible? So how do I not only build it for our builders and
for people participating in our applications, but how do I get that out there
so it's in a SIP standard or the data is accessible through the MCP interface, right?
So there's a lot of things that people are thinking through and how to make that data
extendable. Something at Zero Authority, obviously, a lot of people have come into the
application. They've been a part of the SIP tracker. They can see what's happening on governance on
stacks. That's really cool. We've been extending the data. So if you want to build in stacks and
you want to have profile data, you want to see what people are doing as far as activities on chain. That data is
shareable through the API. We would encourage other people, create your API documentation.
If you need help with that, ask people in this space. One of the things I saw that's coming,
that's going to be super handy for our builders and for people who want to do more is Gary Riger and Stacks
developers. They're releasing Claude Code with Clarity Development. So now that's going to help
you build faster, get your applications up and running, and be able to test and bring users on
and see how their interactions are. So there's a lot of building.
There's a lot of things still yet to be built.
And then in the new cycle, as we go forward with SBTC as the anchor,
with AI capabilities, with MCP native protocols,
we're going to see an explosion of different level of discoverability.
Something we just did, a partnership with the Stacks Prediction Markets.
That's another layer that has come up.
I'm seeing some new applications being developed around NFTs.
That will probably come up in the next cycle, and it'll give people another way to participate. So keep building,
keep interacting with people. This is the best time to build. I know a lot of us believe that.
I know Muneeb says that. I know Mitchell also says that. Mitchell, Claire, Rick, I see a lot
of builders today. A lot of you guys, I was just talking to GP the other day. A lot of the time that we spend in the bull cycle, it's a lot of attention seeking and we want to build the hype train.
But now this is that time where things get a little bit quiet and it's a good time to sit and think about what can I build for the next level of what people are going to start to use our applications
or want some level of data on or the things that I'm building? How do I make that data accessible?
And how do I use these new tools now to get that data out there? So other protocols,
other teams can use that data in ways that I never thought of. So that's something we're
focused on. We want people to come to Zero Authority, of course, but we also want you to
use your AI agents. AI BTC, they're doing phenomenal work. They're allowing all of us to
use agents. We're using agents now with the new Quest protocol that we launched and it distributes the funds
behind the scenes with the Stacks wallet. So try out these new applications.
Don't be afraid to test them out and try something new. Thank you for the huge
shout outs today. We love this community. We think everyone is on the right path
here and building and being a part of these communities. Thank you.
Absolutely love that, Xero, and 100% agree. I think next time we should kick this off with your intro and get the energy up immediately
before we continue.
Speaking of using an amazing app like Xero Authority for Governance, I see Claire from the Stacks Foundation is on stage as well,
and I think she's been collecting some questions from the community too.
Before I give her the stage,
I do want to flag that it sounds like some people are having some sound issues.
Let's hope that's fixed in the recording.
If not, we probably have to do this again and thank
X or Twitter for
sometimes messing up the audio
also if we haven't gotten into
some of your questions that you
replied we'll make sure to get to those
on Axe in the replies or perhaps
in a forum post where we gather people's requests
and ideas so yeah Claire
the stage is yours
Thanks Rick
can you guys hear me okay?
Yeah, lovely.
Awesome.
Yeah, as Rick mentioned,
I've just been trying to compile a few questions
from conversations with community leaders.
And one thing,
just as somebody thinking about ecosystem growth,
especially one thing I've heard a lot about
is readiness for scale.
So if we were to see like a bull market, for example, bring in a surge of users, how confident are we that the network
can handle that type of volume? And then if not, is that something we should be prioritizing now
while we have the runway to do it a little more thoughtfully? I'll start with that one.
a little more thoughtfully.
I'll start with that one.
I can speak to that.
This is something that we are definitely very closely
attuned to and looking at.
I don't think we've had Alex Huth up in one of these spaces,
but he's been working with the engineering team directly.
He's on our product team.
And I know Adriana, our CTO, has been focused on,
as he puts it, 100x-ing our throughput capacity.
We're also looking at the ways in which nodes can be challenging to operate, particularly
due to their size.
And we have already made meaningful improvements there internally that we're basically testing
to make sure that they're as solid as possible, but planning to roll out improvements there
soon.
So this is absolutely a space that we see as critical and something that we're really closely paying attention to and treating as a primary workstream.
Amazing. 100x. We will definitely look forward to that. Xenitron, I see your hand is up.
Is there anything that you'd like to add?
Yeah, I just want to add, I love Zero, how he speaks his motivation, talks, and we have
really great community. And all of us, we passed through all of those years. And I'm looking right now on crypto and I see like the business is like pump fun.
Yeah.
And I believe we are on the right way because first of all, I believe in DeFi strongly because it's sustainable.
It's real product.
And to be honest, I like that there is no narrative and not everyone wants to be the trader.
Not everyone wants to trade on the futures because people love the stories.
They want to bring some emotions, meet new people.
They want to feel something.
And that's why we're building something new.
And I believe we test it together and we will dive deep into how we can push this forward.
And thanks for Stux Foundation, for all our community that I just want to prove that it's
not about the money, it's about the ideas.
It's about the people.
That's the most important thing, not just in crypto, but in life.
just in crypto, but in life.
Yeah.
Yeah, thank you.
100%, I appreciate that coming from you, Xenitron.
I got one in from Airports57.
He asks, currently there is a two week lockup for staking.
Could we get to a place without a lock-up period?
And so maybe to expand on that, I'm curious if there's technical constraints there,
if that's already been discussed, or is Liquids staking part of that answer here
to really anyone on stage right now?
anyone on stage right now.
Andre, do you maybe want to take that one as part of the staking picture?
Yeah, so, you know, I think that there are mainly security reasons why we have the two
week cycles in proof of transfer.
You know, this has come up recently as part of our initiatives
towards Bitcoin staking,
and I don't see that going away in the near term.
But I have heard the feedback that having more liquidity
on your positions and shorter cycles
is a desirable feature for users.
And so it is on our radar as something that we can continue to explore and revisit in the future.
But I think for the majority of use cases in the near term,
Bitcoin liquid stake tokens are the best solution for that,
where you can still lock your Bitcoin self custodially, but be able to exit your position through
a decentralized exchange or some other means if you wanted that near term liquidity on
So that's really what I would say is the best approach, at least for the near term.
Amazing.
I see there's about five or four minutes left.
Mitchell, I know there's more workshop sessions coming up focused on specific items.
I know there's one with AI BTC to talk about some things
that we can do to bring more autonomous AI agents to stacks.
There's also one with Zero Authority, I believe,
to talk more about governance.
Love to know from you, how can people get more involved
if there's anything else that they want to share
or request about the roadmap?
For sure.
Yeah, I mentioned the sessions earlier, but the best place to find them is Claire's forum
post, or maybe it's mine, one of our two forum posts.
Let me pull it up here, and I'll even give you guys the dates.
So the first session coming up, I believe, is the AI one on April 2nd.
That will be kind of, hey, how can we make the network better for AI interactions of all different kinds?
And we have some awesome special guests there.
That's April 2nd at 12 p.m.
Patrick will be joining me.
Tony from X402,
Diego from Bitflow,
Andre and Alexis from the product team at Labs.
And basically, we're just going to discuss
what are the actual bottlenecks with AI adoption
as it relates to Stacks?
How could Stacks potentially be the layer
or the set of tooling by which more agents
are interacting with Bitcoin or Stacks or crypto in general?
Like, what do those rails look like?
And kind of get an honest look at where are we today and what actually, you know, if any,
are the bottlenecks.
I think we have a sense that a lot of those bottlenecks probably are similar to the needs
of DeFi builders.
So there might be some really nice overlap there just in terms of the pre-existing performance
workstream.
But we want to be sure that we gather any specifics from the AI community that they can see coming down the pipe as we've started to see that activity take off.
And it's pretty exciting.
So that's the next one that you can join.
By the way, these are all, if you go to Stacks.co and go to the events calendar, you'll see them all there with all the other awesome events in the ecosystem as well.
And then the next session after that will be just five days later, April 7th.
And we'll be talking with Xero and Claire about the next generation of governance tooling.
So sort of hot on the heels of the SIP tracker that they've released together,
the Foundation and Xero Authority DAO.
There are other tools in the works
for helping people better track their grants,
their projects in general, not just grants.
And there's been discussions over like,
what can the social layer look like?
And how can we make it easier
for more people to participate in governance?
How can SIPs move faster?
All those kinds of juicy things
that make the
ecosystem move forward. So if you're interested in either of those topics, those are the two next
sessions, and that's all I've got. Once those are wrapped up, we'll do obviously some synthesis work
on all of the feedback. And then whatever the next town hall is that we've been able to kind of
complete that roadmap, we'll share it there. We'll go over it with the community,
and that'll sort of be the first reveal,
and then we'll obviously update the page itself.
So we're about halfway there, folks,
and looking forward to seeing you at the next two sessions.
Amazing.
Thank you, Mitchell.
So, yeah, let's close things off,
although I think he got his hand up as well,
so we should go to zero at the end for some last inspiring words.
But before we do that, again, please go to the forum to share any requests,
questions or ideas about the roadmap and vision if you don't want to join one of
those sessions.
And yeah, thank you, Andre, Claire, Alexis, Rube,oobs zero Mitchell Zenitron for joining the
stage as well as the folks who have been on X asking questions and requests on the roadmap
so yeah let's uh let's leave it with with zero hey guys this is the best time to be a builder
in stacks and the Bitcoin L2 look around around. A lot of protocols and chains, they're shutting down,
and we're still here. We're still building. We've been around for the last 10 years,
and we're going to be around another 20 years. So just wanted to say whatever you left off on,
Rick, check out the Stacks forums, go to Stacks Co. and look at all the events keep showing up this is the time
that's going to make the biggest difference uh thank you everyone i really appreciate you guys
always tuning in and joining the community thanks everyone we'll see you soon
thanks y'all
