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.

Why Build on Bitcoin?

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Untapped

Over $1 trillion in latent capital is waiting for builders like to activate it.

Learn about PoX

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?

Developer Tools

search-clarity.dev

User-friendly Bitcoin wallet to interact 
with your app & smart contracts

search-clarity.dev

User-friendly Bitcoin wallet to interact 
with your app & smart contracts

search-clarity.dev

User-friendly Bitcoin wallet to interact 
with your app & smart contracts

search-clarity.dev

User-friendly Bitcoin wallet to interact 
with your app & smart contracts

Developer Tools

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.

Stacks Blockchain API

Query the Stacks blockchain and interact with smart contracts

Stacks.js

Decentralized app development made easy

Chainhooks

Reorg-aware, IFTTT-compatible Bitcoin indexing engine

Clarinet

Write, test, and deploy Clarity smart contracts

Stacks CLI

Stacks CLI enables interactions with Stacks

Hiro Platform

Write, test and deploy smart contracts, directly from your browser.

Self-Hosted Docker

Tool to run a self-hosted Stacks node with Docker

QuickNode

Elastic APIs, powerful tools & analytics, and more

Chainalysis

Blockchain data platform powering hundreds of top institutions.

Moonpay

On/off ramp and payment solution with 15m users supporting Stacks (STX)

Allbridge

A simple, modern, and reliable way to transfer assets between blockchains

Pyth

Smarter Data for Smarter Contracts

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.

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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.

Securing Web3 Apps Through Bitcoin

A beginner's friendly series

Securing Web3 Apps Through Bitcoin

A beginner's friendly series

Securing Web3 Apps Through Bitcoin

A beginner's friendly series

Securing Web3 Apps Through Bitcoin

A beginner's friendly series

Securing Web3 Apps Through Bitcoin

A beginner's friendly series

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.

StackingDAO

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

BlockSurvey

Collect and share form data with guaranteed privacy