January 2024

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📙 Bitcoin Layers Report by Spartan Group

Tapestry of a Trustless Financial Era

Diving deep into the layers of Bitcoin's blossoming ecosystem, the first edition of the Bitcoin Layers Report unveils the emerging reality of a financial world where trust is embedded in technology rather than institutions. As Bitcoin evolves beyond a Store of Value, we stand on the cusp of a revolution in trustless finance and a new era of economic possibilities. https://bitcoinlayersreport.com/

Title	Outlet/Author
🌱 The Year Ahead | Pantera Blockchain Letter	Pantera
🟧 Q4 2023: No Denying Demand For Bitcoin L2s	Stacks Foundation
📙 Binance Research: Top 10 Narratives to Follow in 2024	Binance Research
📕 The Bankless Guide to Stacks	Bankless
📊 Electric Capital Report: Stacks established developers up 51%	Electric Capital
📰 Bitcoin Could See Growth in Layer-2 Ecosystem, Drawing on Ethereum's Experience	Coindesk, Yahoo Finance
🔮 Paul Veradittakit of Pantera Capital Lists Stacks In 6 Predictions Crypto 2024	Coindesk
🏛️ Franklin Templeton: Ordinals & Layer 2 solutions on Bitcoin shouldn’t be ignored	Franklin Templeton
🔉 Podcast: Muneeb Ali joins us in The Blueprint	The Blueprint
🎨 Jack Butcher: Onboarding to Bitcoin	Jack Butcher
👀 2024 Bitcoin Outlook: Ecosystem Beyond ETFs	Four Pillars
Ⓜ️ This Bitcoin ecosystem is having its moment	Cosmo Jiang, Pantera Capital
🧪 MT Capital Research Report: Stacks Nakamoto is about to be upgraded to inject new impetus into the Bitcoin ecosystem	MT Capital via Gate.io
📊 House of Chimera Analyzes Rapid Growth in Stacks Transactions	House of Chimera
👛 Ryder to operate FAST Pool, become signer in Stacks’ Nakamoto upgrade	Crypto.news
🔶 Bitcoin 2024 Outlook (featuring Stacks and ALEX)	OKX
💰 Bitcoin DEX Bitflow raises $1.3M in pre-seed funding	Bitflow
😈 DeFi Researcher Ignas: “Degen Playbook for Stacks”	Ignas via TLDR
📺 Why DeFi on Stacks is the Next Bitcoin Bull	Block Runner
📊 All time high Total Value Locked (TVL) for Bitcoin L2 Stacks	DefiLlama
📊 sOrdinals: 100k Inscriptions in less than 24 hours	sOrdinals
📊 STX20 Protocol Surpasses 1M Transactions in 1 Month	STX20
📊 StackingDAO celebrates $20M in TVL one month in	StackingDAO
📙 Bitcoin Layers Report: Tapestry of a Trustless Financial Era	Spartan Group