The PoX-5 hardfork has been activated at Bitcoin block 960,230 and the network is running under the new rules 🟧
The rails for Bitcoin Staking are now switched on.
The PoX-5 Public Testnet is live 🟠
It includes the Bitcoin staking mechanism, so builders can test their protocols against the upcoming release.
Mainnet hardfork is targeted for ~July 29. Test your flows now:
Staking gave ETH and SOL more than yield. It gave them a base to build an entire onchain ecosystem on. Bitcoin's $1.3T has been waiting for that base, and that's what we're building toward with Stacks.
📊THIS BITCOIN CYCLE CHART IS GOING VIRAL
It maps every four-year cycle into the same four phases: Bear, Pre-Bull, First Bull, and Second Bull built around Bitcoin's halving schedule.
The pattern has repeated since 2014 and places the current cycle in the red zone.
credit: @saylordocs
Today, Mastercard, @OndoFinance, Kinexys by @JPMorgan, and @Ripple successfully completed a landmark transaction connecting a public blockchain with interbank settlement rails.
Together, we’re laying the groundwork for 24/7 global markets that never close.
“If the Fed needed an oracle network to do something specific, the Fed could choose the nodes and the conditions under which the nodes operate for the Fed-specific oracle network.”
At the @federalreserve Payments Innovation Conference, @SergeyNazarov explained how Chainlink oracle networks can be customized to meet specific compliance requirements across use cases ↓