Building on Bitcoin Layers With the Hiro Platform Bitcoin is the highest-valued token on the planet, but building on the Bitcoin network was a hassle in the past; as the first blockchain, its support for smart contract development and apps was very basic. This changed with the rise of Bitcoin layer-...
Comparing Solidity With Clarity Writing smart contracts for Bitcoin was limited in the past, but with Stacks, this changed. Its Clarity programming language allows you to build Bitcoin smart contacts similar to those on the Ethereum network while being more secure than Solidity at ...
Creating a Token-Gated Web Page With Clarity This tutorial shows how to create a token-gated website using Clarity as the smart contract language. A token-gated website serves content to users with a certain amount of tokens in their wallets. In this tutorial, we will create two Clarity smart c...
Unleash the Power of DeFi on Bitcoin If you've been building on Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains and yet are intrigued by the potential of Bitcoin, this post is for you. We will talk about Stacks, a Bitcoin layer 2, and how it will unlock $500B+ of Bitcoin liquidity for everyday apps....
Building an NFT with Stacks and Clarity Smart contract development is a high stakes game. We are writing code that can be seen by anyone, called by anyone, is immutable once deployed, and handles peoples’ real world financial assets. Over the last few years, we have seen tens of millions o...
A Quick Intro to Crypto When you hear the word crypto, the first thing that comes to mind is probably cryptocurrency. However, before Bitcoin, Ethereum, crypto was widely known to be an abbreviation for cryptography, the process of encrypting and decrypting information. Cr...
Virtualizing Hash Power in Bitcoin with Proof of Burn Satoshi's original vision for PoW was an egalitarian way of securing Bitcoin; however, the free market pushed mining competition to lengths so great that they became harmful and unproductive, which was likely beyond his original imagination. Koinos G...
