The verdict from @coinbureau on Stacks: the most serious way to make Bitcoin programmable without touching Bitcoin.
And the next chapter is Bitcoin Staking (soon).
Full review 👇
CROSS Wave just hit a new ATH 🚀
Over the past week, video views across CROSS Wave jumped from 1.46M to 3.33M, marking a +127% increase in just 7 days.
That’s our first-ever 3M+ view week.
At the same time:
- Video uploads increased from 1,187 → 1,230
- Active streamers grew from 225 → 250
- We are now at 18.7M total views / 2,500+ streamers creating across the platform
CROSS Wave is becoming a real content distribution engine for Web3 gaming.
The Wave is building 🌊
#CROSS #CROSSWave #StreamFi
CROSS Wave Partners — Launching June 30, 2026.
Every game deserves real players.
For four months, CROSS Wave has quietly proven a new model — thousands of creators across 66 countries, millions of verified views, zero wasted spend.
Now we’re opening it to every studio.
Performance-based creator marketing. Pay only for verified views. No contracts. No agency fees. Web2 and Web3 — all welcome.
https://t.co/ZMVjToUpBy
#CROSSWave #GameMarketing #CreatorEconomy
Epic combos & non-stop action! ⚔️ Dive into the cyberpunk streets, defeat bosses, and claim your loot.
Powered by @CROSS_gamechain, your hard-earned rewards are truly yours on-chain. ⛓️✨
Play now: https://t.co/orFhwiBeA1
Building Bitcoin-native finance on Stacks? Get funded.
Q2 2026 Grants are open across DeFi & perps, RWAs, agentic apps, and privacy. Applications close June 26.
Crypto is entering a consolidation phase.
In the dotcom era, the markets simultaneously (a) overpriced the losers and (b) underpriced the eventual winners.
The winners and the market size turned out to be way bigger than we imagined.
Top crypto projects with sufficient cash and runway to dominate their respective verticals will sweep the upcoming market.
My bet for end 2026:
1) BitVM3-style verification ships on mainnet
2) Bitcoin Collateral Vaults eat the wrapped-BTC market
3) wBTC & cbBTC stay under 1% of BTC market cap forever
4) The first $1B in self-custodial BTC loans get issued without a wrapper
@ZestProtocol
🚨 Lucky Box Going Crazy — 500 $CROSS
Miners, this is not a drill.
Someone just opened a Lucky Box and pulled 500 $CROSS.
Yesterday was 100.
Today is 500.
The boxes are heating up, and the next big pull could be sitting in your inventory right now.
Open your Lucky Boxes.
Test your luck.
Congrats to the lucky Miner.
#CROSSPLAY #gacha #luckybox
CROSS PLAY 2.0 is here.
🔗 https://t.co/qy9hgcJwyV
CROSS PLAY is now evolving into a web-based quest platform where users can complete missions, earn rewards, and join more ecosystem activities in one place.
Complete quests such as follows, retweets, gameplay missions, and more to earn rewards.
Rewards may include:
• cross-2:native
• Lucky Boxes for special reward chances
Please note:
cross-2:native withdrawal will be marked as Coming Soon at launch and will open once the required wallet and verification flow is ready.
Some quests may require completing the Sign Up mission first before joining other missions.
More quests. More rewards. More ways to play.
Welcome to the new CROSS PLAY.
#CROSSPlay #CROSS
Bitcoin is the largest idle asset in the world.
I backed Zest Protocol because they're the team putting BTC to work.
BTC-backed lending is a trillion dollar market and @ZestProtocol has the track record to win it.
we’ve been building something super cool as a next major release of @stacks
if you’re an institution holding large amounts of bitcoin, DM me for a preview
Dear @star_okx,
A new $DOG spot listing application has been submitted to OKX.
We greatly respect how your exchange approaches listings fairly unlike Binance who has a corrupt listing process.
We look forward to being able to buy $DOG on OKX soon!
Sincerely,
$DOG Army
Some Bitcoin Vegas takeaways
The conference was quieter than the last two years. Attendance felt closer to Bitcoin Miami 2023 than to the 2024 and 2025 peaks. Calm-before-the-storm energy.
We're also clearly in an $STRC market. Everyone was talking about digital credit.
Digital credit could be a an asset class on the same order of magnitude impact as Bitcoin itself.
At a private dinner cohosted by @Treasury_BTC, Saylor and Phong Le laid out that digital credit is still vastly underestimated. Fixed income markets are larger than the capital pool that can buy the Bitcoin ETFs.
Plenty of familiar faces too. @muneeb pushing @Stacks forward with a launch that is going to be very exciting for @ZestProtocol, and @TimDraper spreading his vision for Bitcoin eating the dollar. What stood out though was the volume of TradFi names in the room, more than I've seen at any previous Bitcoin conference.
Bitcoin is quite clearly finishing its transition into a fully institutional asset.
If 2023 told us what 2024 was going to look like, Vegas 2026 is doing the same job for whatever comes next.
People are having meltdowns, stress & disillusionment about the future of Bitcoin.
A better way to spend the bear market is to optimize sleep, workouts, and deep work. This is the time to build the future!
For Stacks this means launching Bitcoin staking. Long live Bitcoin 🟧