Stacks makes Bitcoin programmable, enabling decentralized apps and smart contracts that inherit all of Bitcoin’s powers.
Build apps and smart contracts on Bitcoin
Stacks connects to Bitcoin, enabling you to build apps, smart contracts, and digital assets that are integrated with Bitcoin's security, capital, and network.
Earn Bitcoin by Stacking
Lock your STX temporarily to support the network’s security and consensus. As a reward, you’ll earn Bitcoin that miners transfer as part of Proof of Transfer.
Reimagine our financial system on Bitcoin
Stacks makes Bitcoin's $760B of capital programmable with smart contracts. Build a better financial system on top of Bitcoin that’s open, composable, and without intermediaries.
Clarity, for safer smart contracts
Run your app’s logic on the blockchain with Clarity smart contracts. Clarity is a more secure and predictable language that prevents many bugs and exploits. Perfect for high-stakes code where bugs are not an option.
Explore Stacks
What is Stacks?
A conceptual overview of Stacks, Bitcoin and decentralized apps.Stacks is an open-source network of decentralized apps and smart contracts built on Bitcoin. Stacks unleashes Bitcoin’s full potential as a programmable base layer.
Mining
Mining is the process of adding new blocks to the Stacks blockchain. With Proof of Transfer, miners spend Bitcoin to mine new blocks — no special hardware is required.
Stacking
Stacking is locking your STX temporarily to support the network's security and consensus. As a reward, you'll earn Bitcoin that miners transfer through Proof of Transfer.
Governance
Governance is the process of decision making around Stacks’ open-source software and the Stacks blockchain.
Wallets
Wallets let you see your balances, send and receive tokens, and connect you to Stacks apps.