Build apps and smart contracts secured by Bitcoin.
By leveraging the leading Bitcoin L2, you build on most secure foundation available while gaining direct access to the untapped capital and potential of Bitcoin.
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Why Build on Bitcoin?
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Secure
Bitcoin is the most battle-tested and decentralized blockchain. By building on Bitcoin, you can pass these other key properties that make Bitcoin so sturdy and secure to your users.
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Robust
Bitcoin is durable and consistent, boasting unmatched longevity in the world of blockchains. Build on a base layer you and your users can count on.
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User-Ready
Bitcoin is the most familiar, adopted crypto asset, giving you access to an enormous user base on Day 1. Start building today for an audience that is ready and waiting.
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Untapped
Over $1 trillion in latent capital is waiting for builders like to activate it.
3 Ways to get started.
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Start with the basics
EasyA, one of the premier educators in Web3, has put together an easy-to-follow mobile app experience that thousands of developers have onboarded through. It will quickly teach you the basic concepts and will be regularly updated with new content.
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Learn Clarity
Clarity is a powerful smart contract language that offers baked in protections for you and your users. Write safer smart contracts that have native visibility into Bitcoin state. The Stacks Foundation offers a free, self-guided course to get you started.
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Build an app
With basics in hand and a little experience with Clarity, the Hello Stacks tutorial will guide you through building your first full-stack Bitcoin dApps with Stacks. What new experiences will you bring to Bitcoin?
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Developer Tools
Ortege AI
AI-powered blockchain analytics & insights for Stacks, making complex data simple.
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Stacks Docs
Concepts, references, and tutorials that will guide you through starting with Stacks
Stacks API by Hiro
Interact directly with the blockchain to query information, broadcast transactions, and scale your projects on Stacks.
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Stacks Blockchain API
Query the Stacks blockchain and interact with smart contracts
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Stacks.js
Decentralized app development made easy
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Chainhooks
Reorg-aware, IFTTT-compatible Bitcoin indexing engine
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Clarinet
Write, test, and deploy Clarity smart contracts
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Stacks CLI
Stacks CLI enables interactions with Stacks
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Hiro Platform
Write, test and deploy smart contracts, directly from your browser.
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Self-Hosted Docker
Tool to run a self-hosted Stacks node with Docker
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QuickNode
Elastic APIs, powerful tools & analytics, and more
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Chainalysis
Blockchain data platform powering hundreds of top institutions.
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Moonpay
On/off ramp and payment solution with 15m users supporting Stacks (STX)
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Allbridge
A simple, modern, and reliable way to transfer assets between blockchains
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Pyth
Smarter Data for Smarter Contracts
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Resources
There are many great resources, guides, and case studies of what is all possible on Stacks. Whether it's decentralized apps, NFTs, or DeFi tools, you will find direction on how to build each one here.
Bitcoin Primer
Bitcoin Builder's Primer: An Intro to Building Full-Stack Dapps on Bitcoin.
A Developer’s Guide to Bitcoin DeFi
DeFi is the biggest category in Web3 and has become a $50B+ sector. Now devs are bringing DeFi to Bitcoin.
Minting NFTs with Quicknode
Create, deploy, and mint an NFT contract.
Build A Dex on Stacks
Tutorial on building a decentralized exchange on Stacks.
The Ultimate Guide to Bitcoin Development
An in-progress series walking developers through building a full-stack dapp using Bitcoin and Stacks.
Securing Web3 Apps Through Bitcoin
An overview of the Stacks Proof of Transfer consensus mechanism and how it enables Stacks apps to be secured by Bitcoin.
Featured Apps
Check out the range of apps, tools, and protocols that have been built on Stacks. These are just some of the Bitcoin use cases enabled by Stacks L2.
Explore the ecosystem
LISA
Upcoming liquid Stacking option for Stackers
Stacking DAO
Liquidity for stacked tokens on Stacks
Owl Link
Decentralized bio links using .btc domains.
Ryder
The world's first social wallet bringing real-life social interaction to crypto.
ALEX
Open-source DeFi protocol modeled on the world's financial markets
Sigle
De-centralised and open-source Web 3.0 writing platform
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