# September 2024

<table><thead><tr><th width="471">Article</th><th>Outlet/Author</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>📈<a href="https://coinchapter.com/new-milestone-for-bitcoin-defi-over-1400-smart-contracts-deployed-on-stacks-even-before-major-upgrade/">New Milestone for Bitcoin DeFi: Over 1,400 Smart Contracts Deployed on Stacks</a></td><td>Coin Chapter</td></tr><tr><td>📈<a href="https://www.livebitcoinnews.com/stacks-registers-unseen-smart-contract-deployment-days-away-from-its-nakamoto-upgrade/">Bitcoin layer-2 Stacks witnessed 1,400 smart contract deployments month over month</a></td><td>Live Bitcoin News</td></tr><tr><td>🗞️<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/stacks-record-smart-contracts-nakamoto-upgrade?ref=stacksblog">Stacks' smart contracts reach record high ahead of Nakamoto upgrade</a></td><td>Cointelegraph</td></tr><tr><td>🤝🏻<a href="https://x.com/Stacks/status/1831335327300309174?utm_source=stackssnacks.com&#x26;utm_medium=referral&#x26;utm_campaign=anchorage-digital-supporting-stacks-btc-bash-and-other-highlights">Anchorage Digital Announces Custody Support for Stacks</a></td><td>X / Anchorage Digital</td></tr><tr><td>🚀<a href="https://cryptobriefing.com/bitcoin-synthetic-dollar-25-percent-yield/?ref=stacksblog">Hermetica Labs Launches USDh, the first Bitcoin-native synthetic USD</a></td><td>Crypto Briefing</td></tr><tr><td>💡<a href="https://www.xverse.app/blog/what-is-sbtc?ref=stacksblog">What is sBTC? A Guide to the Non-Custodial Native Bitcoin DeFi</a></td><td>Xverse</td></tr><tr><td>₿ <a href="https://subscribe.bitcoinbuildersassociation.com/p/over-15b-worth-of-btc-is-now-locked?ref=stacksblog">Over $1.5B worth of BTC is now locked in Bitcoin Layers</a></td><td>Bitcoin Builders Association</td></tr><tr><td>🤝<a href="https://decrypt.co/249825/bitcoin-stacks-l2-brings-its-sbtc-to-the-aptos-network">Stacks x Aptos Foundations Join Forces to Bring Bitcoin to Aptos Network via sBTC</a></td><td>Decrypt</td></tr><tr><td>🖼️<a href="https://nftinsider.io/gamma-bitcoin-beta/?ref=stacksblog">Gamma's United Bitcoin Ordinals and Stacks Platform Enters Beta</a></td><td>NFT Insider</td></tr><tr><td>🤝<a href="https://cryptobriefing.com/bitcoin-builders-acceleration-partnership/?ref=stacksblog">Tokensoft partners with Stacks Foundation and Bitcoin Frontier Fund to Accelerate Bitcoin Builders </a></td><td>Crypto Briefing</td></tr><tr><td>🗞️<a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/community/articles/66e2998ae0c16b2dea22b4f1/?ref=stacksblog">Stacks Asia Foundation Launches with $15M in Funding to Boost Bitcoin Layer-2 Adoption</a></td><td>CoinMarketCap</td></tr><tr><td>🚀<a href="https://subscribe.bitcoinbuildersassociation.com/p/zest-introduces-btcz-leveraging-babylon?ref=stacksblog">Zest Introduces BTCz, leveraging Babylon and Stacks</a></td><td>Zest</td></tr></tbody></table>
