Stacks ecosystem becomes #1 Web3 project on Bitcoin By Cointelegraph

On the first anniversary of the launch of Stacks blockchain (STX), which seeks to make (BTC) programmable, the network achieved over 350 million monthly API requests, 40,000 Hiro (development tool for Stacks to build applications on Bitcoin) wallet downloads, and 2,500 Clarity smart contracts. According to a report by Electric Capital, a venture capital firm focused on cryptocurrencies and fintech, these statistics make Stacks the largest project on Bitcoin.

More than 11,000 users earned more than 100 BTC rewards per month on Stacks due to its unique proof-of-transfer, or PoX, consensus mechanism. Miners bid BTC to verify transactions, execute smart contracts and mine new blocks on the STX blockchain and earn STX as rewards. Meanwhile, the BTC bids are sent to STX holders as rewards for performing tasks like running nodes. To date, the mechanism has delivered over $50 million worth of BTC rewards and surpassed $1 billion in total value locked.

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