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In 2023, managing your crypto wallet is still a big pain in the butt. Seed phrases are a single point of failure no normal person wants to use. Enter the Ryder One. They have rethought the experience of what a hardware wallet could be from first principles and created a completely new experience for securely managing your digital assets. Louise Ivan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ryder. Learn more about Ryder: https://www.ryder.id/ Order your own Ryder One: https://kickstarter.com/projects/ryder-wallet/ryder-one-secure-wallet-strong-device-simple-transactions?ref=djvflh

$500 billion in BTC is sitting mostly dormant. Proof-of-Stake chains need large amounts of capital to secure the network. David Tse is working to solve these two problems by allowing you to stake Bitcoin and secure a myriad of other blockchains. This new project is called Babylon. Check out the recently released litepaper here. https://docs.babylonchain.io/assets/files/btc_staking_litepaper-32bfea0c243773f0bfac63e148387aef.pdf Follow David Tse on Twitter: @dntse Follow Babylon on Twitter: @babylon_chain Learn more about Babylon https://babylonchain.io/

The Lightning Network is heralded as the future of payments. However, several aspects of the network still require refinement. Amboss is one company doing that work. Jesse and his team are creating tools to make it more efficient to run a Lightning node and have access to the best data to make informed decisions. Follow Jesse on X: @Jestopher_BTC Learn more about Amboss: https://amboss.space/ Get Built on Bitcoin directly to your inbox and never miss an episode: https://builtonbitcoin.beehiiv.com/

Alexei Zamyatin is a Bitcoin enthusiast, researcher & software developer. He co-founded Interlay to solve the problem of getting Bitcoin to be used in as many places as possible in a safe, secure way. That lead them to build the V1 of their decentralized Bitcoin bridge. V2 has been released this week and brings a whole new suite of tools including Uniswap-like AMM features, lending/borrowing, and more. Learn more about Interlay at https://www.interlay.io/ Follow Alexei on Twitter: @alexeiZamyatin --------------------------------------------------------- Thank you to our sponsor - The Ordinals 2023 Conference May 18th in Miami Florida. The first-ever Ordinals conference is going down with a long list of innovators and thought leaders in attendance. Including: Casey Rodarmor, Nic Carter, Trevor Owens, Jamil Dhanani, Ragnar Lifthrasir, Udi Wertheimer, Eric Wall, and many more. Save $25 with discount code: ord23jkblck https://ordinals2023.com/Tickets/

Daniel and Josh are the co-founders of NFT marketplace, Byzantion. An advanced NFT trading platform built on Stacks with tons of tools for collectors, traders, and creators alike. Checkout out Byzantion at https://byzantion.xyz/ Follow Byzantion on Twitter: @byzantion_xyz Follow Josh: @ObsidianBTC Follow Daniel: @Plutus_BTC

Complicated onboarding is THE biggest problem in attracting new users to crypto. Secret Key Labs is looking to solve this problem for the Stacks ecosystem by making a mobile first wallet experience that is dead simple. Listen in to this episode to find out how they are bringing STX, CityCoins, Stacking and NFT's into one simple interface in the palm of your hand.

The mission statement on ALEX's website says "Bring Your Bitcoin to Life". That line sums up everything they are working on. Bitcoin is one of the purest assets that's ever been created and ALEX is working to help make it more of a productive asset, and along the way, play their part in changing the financial system.

Merry Christmas Yall! This week a good amount of news came down the pipeline including a big project launching, some big VC money secured, a couple big NFT drops and some news on a scaling solution for Stacks called Subnets.

I say it every week but what a week in Stacks! Ryder & Megapont drop big newsletters, A CityCoins focused Stacks Accelerator, Fiat On-Ramp from the Hiro Wallet, and much more.

Lots of exciting things happening including a bridge to bring NFT's between Stacks & ETH, NEW ATH, An NFT Accelerator for Artists, MiamiCoin Art Week 2021, The 2.05 upgrade and much more

Moonray is a far-future, surreal sci-fi Action-RPG coming to #Bitcoin via Stacks Blockchain. Allowing you a triple AAA gaming experience that brings Play-to-earn mechanics, a tradeable NFTs economy & the foundation for a metaverse to Bitcoin via Stacks. Follow Moonray on Twitter @Moonraygame

Stacks Accelerator Demo Day, CityCoins is accepted by the City of Miami, NFT Project Phases of Satoshi launches, New Stacker Chat and a great blog post on scalability from Muneeb. What a week in Stacks land!

Patrick Stanley (CEO of Freehold) talks how he got into crypto, and what he sees coming down the pipeline with crypto, CityCoins and beyond. Quote to ponder: "It used to be, big if true, now its, true if big."