Drew & his team are building out DAO tools to help communities foster better connections. Coordinating groups of people to come together and take action toward a common goal will forever be a useful endeavor. The need for tools to help us organize more effectively is only increasing in the Web3 era where blockchain tech is creating a whole new design space for coordination, trust and aligning incentives.

Another great week in Stacks with the Trust Machines funding round, A couple bridge announcements, the Mintery has picked its first cohort of NFT artists, More LNSwap innovation, Project Indigo Newsletter, Blocksurvery secures funding and some exciting news of of Miami regarding CityCoins. Tune In to stay updated on all things Stacks.

DAO's are the hot topic right now. A way to rethink how we organize and get things done as a group. Orlando and Ryan are at the forefront of trying to navigate the murky waters of complexity that currently surround DAO's and create an easy-to-use platform to launch one for your community.

This week we're talking Lydian DAO, Coinbase Listing, ALEX Launch, CityCoins News, Lindsey Lohan, NFT's on Bitcoin, Project Indigo, New Stacker Chats & Built on Bitcoin episodes and a new addition to the Stacks Grants program.

Stacks is working to unleash the full potential of Bitcoin, and the team at the Stacks Foundation is supporting all the builders bringing this vision to life. Listen to Jenny Mith and Will Corcoran from the Foundation talk about the programs they offer and some exciting changes coming to support the movers and shakers of Stacks.

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 Syvita Guild has been mining CityCoins since the beginning, What they have built so far is only the beginning of a bigger vision to fully unlock the potential of the Stacks Proof-of-Transfer mechanism. Check in with members of the Syvita Guild as they talk about how they got to this point, and where they are heading.

Updates from around the Stacks ecosystem for the week of January 17th, 2022.

Check in with some of the great Stacks NFT creators and see what they have been working on and what's coming down the pipeline. On This Twitter Spaces we have: Grace & Eli from Crash Punks Newton & Setzeus from Bitcoin Badgers John from Project Indigo Tope from the Bitcoin Monkeys Fellow from Stacks Degens and the creators of upcoming projects Punks Army & Crypto Soda Club.

The first Stacks NFT paid for with Lightning just happened (1/6/22). This opens a huge new space to develop in and onboard new users to the Stacks ecosystem. Learn about some of the foundational work being done in this conversation with the Creator, PseudoZach. https://www.lnswap.org/