Soon after ushering in the new year, the Stacks Foundation, Hiro PBC (formerly Blockstack PBC), and the Stacks community celebrated a major milestone on January 14th, 2021: The Stacks 2.0 Mainnet Launch.
“Stacks 2.0 brings secure apps and smart contracts to Bitcoin, unlocking a new wave of innovation upon the world’s most robust and most valuable blockchain”, said Stacks Co-founder and CEO of
Hiro PBC, Muneeb Ali.
“The launch is just the beginning of an exciting new era for the Stacks community and crypto broadly, as developers leverage Stacks to build a user-owned internet on Bitcoin.” The Stacks 2.0 mainnet is well on its way to a
thousand blocks, and there are other healthy signs you can read more about in this recent
status update. Now that independent miners have launched the network, no single party — including
Hiro (formerly Blockstack PBC) — has the ability to change it, pause it, or shut it down. PBC is now shifting its primary focus to developer tools for the Stacks blockchain under the Hiro banner.
To celebrate and say thanks to the dedicated members of this community who helped make this milestone happen, Stacks ecosystem entities hosted a global event on the launch date. The event has been streamed over 8,000 times and more than 15K+ people have newly joined Stacks related Telegram and Twitter recently. Amazing guest speakers in the Blockchain and Crypto space — along with surprise announcements, app launches, and of course, a musical performance — made it a party.
Below are some some highlights from the day and you'll find the full slate of videos available too. A massive thank you to our community for making the day what it was. A new era for the user-owned internet is beginning on Bitcoin!