Business Development Sprint Sync

[renashah]

Sprint 16 ➡️ 17: Feb 21st, 2024

✅ Unlocks

• Meaningful progress in adding more signers as part of the Nakamoto Launch over the last few weeks (LugaNodes, +2 more to be announced)

📢 Shoutouts

• @cuevasm on handling all these announcements with grace

Sprint that is Starting:
🥅 Goals

• Finish rounding out the last strategic partners for the signer program
• Bridge potentially locked 👀
• Meetings in person with partners

🚨 Blockers

• None

[renashah]

Sprint 17 ➡️ 18: Mar 6th, 2024

✅ Unlocks

• Signers are live!!! https://cointelegraph.com/news/stacks-welcomes-new-signers-blockdaemon-near-foundation-bitcoin-surge
• Welcome Blockdaemon, Near Foundation, DeSpread, Luxor, Chorus One, Kiln, Restake, and Alum Labs.
• Hosting ETH Denver appreciation dinner for our earliest signers

📢 Shoutouts

• Entire BD WG, it takes a village to get each one of these deals across the line.

Sprint that is Starting:
🥅 Goals

• Developing further with Stablecoin partners
• Aligning liquidity for existing bridges like All bridge aeUSDC to support builders in the ecosystem
• A few more strategic signer partners
• Integration work with another bridge partner

🚨 Blockers

• Nothing!

[renashah]

Sprint 18 ➡️ 19: Mar 19th, 2024

✅ Unlocks

• Working through DeFi connectivity requested by builders in the ecosystem for custodian support
• Sourcing more signers from different types of backgrounds who can bring more capital into the ecosystem

📢 Shoutouts

• @lgalabru working on stablecoin R&D that's guiding the BD team ❤️

Sprint that is Starting:
🥅 Goals

• Developing Nakamoto strategy for Ordinals and other builder activities
• Think about liquidity strategy for sBTC's eventual launch

🚨 Blockers

• Bandwidth on tight timelines to get partners up to speed and ready to activate for Nakamoto

[renashah]

Apologies for the late updates -- I've been traveling and will defer this to another member for the BD working group going forward.

Update from April to mid- May

✅ Unlocks

• Signers are public!
• First crosschain messaging bridge announced - Welcome Axelar to Stacks!

📢 Shoutouts

• Everyone supporting the updated Launch plans for Nakamoto

Sprint that is Starting:
🥅 Goals

• Bootstapping incentives for sBTC v1 launch
• More signers for Nakamoto release

🚨 Blockers

• None

[andrerserrano]

Sprint update mid-May ➡️ June 10, 2024

✅ Unlocks

• Grayscale STX Trust is live with $2.5M AUM!

📢 Shoutouts

• Everyone who attended Consensus for IRL BD meetings!


🥅 Goals

• DeFi integrations with custodians to unlock sBTC minting and liquidity
• Bootstapping incentives for sBTC v1 launch

🚨 Blockers

• Currently reviewing a Clarity upgrade to help unblock bridge and stablecoin partners

[shiv331]

Hello @renashah @andrerserrano I am handling BizDev at Neemo Finance. We are, currently developing liquid staking tokens on Bitlayer. We are launching our nsBTR token (LST) on the Bitlayer testnet. Additionally, we are working on building a Bitcoin LST called uneBTC.

We're interested in exploring potential synergies between Neemo and Stacks.
We’d love to hear from you for our partnership.

[Links]
Website: https://neemo.finance/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/neemofinance
Discord: https://discord.gg/pWxC5CCsjP