Stacker Chats
Stacker Chat with Muneeb Ali: ALEX Launch, Hyperchains & Bringing More Entrepreneurs to Bitcoin
January 21, 2022
Muneeb Ali (Co-founder, Stacks and CEO, Hiro) and Gina Abrams (Special Projects, Hiro) share a weekly Stacks update. This episode covers the ALEX launch, Muneeb's reactions to the Coinbase exchange announcement, scalability updates on Hyperchains, and the opportunity space for developer building apps and smart contracts for Bitcoin via the Stacks Accelerator.
Muneeb Ali (Co-founder, Stacks and CEO, Hiro) and Gina Abrams (Special Projects, Hiro) share a weekly Stacks update. This episode covers the ALEX launch, Muneeb's reactions to the Coinbase exchange announcement, scalability updates on Hyperchains, and the opportunity space for developer building apps and smart contracts for Bitcoin via the Stacks Accelerator. 

Timestamps: 
0:00 Intro 
0:40 ALEX launched this week! What are some takeaways from this recent announcement? 
02:57 Coinbase exchange also announced support for Stacks - what do you foresee from here? 
04:41 Can you talk about any updates we can expect when it comes to subnets, now called hyperchains? 
08:01 How are you thinking about potentially bridging to other ecosystems? 
09:17 The next Stacks accelerator cohort is coming… What kinds of businesses would you love to see come to Stacks over the next year or so?  
12:10 What drives your work in the Stacks ecosystem?