Introduction to Stacks

The first course of the degree takes us through an introductory phase. Starting off with learning about Bitcoin and Stacks, then explaining the massive DeFi opportunity that exists within the Bitcoin ecosystem, and then going into how to start creating your own apps using Clarity by learning about the Clarity Language, fungible tokens, and then building our very own DeFi protocol we deploy to the Stacks testnet.

Team

Stacks

+20,000 XP

Lessons

6 lessons

Introduction to Bitcoin

Learn some quick history about Bitcoin, how it came to be, how it works, and some limitations of Bitcoin.

21 mins

+4,000 XP!

Introduction to Stacks

Learn what a Layer 2 network is, how Stacks builds a programmable Layer 2 on Bitcoin, what Proof of Transfer is and how it works.

15 mins

+4,000 XP!

The case for Bitcoin DeFi

Understand the bull case for why you should care about DeFi on Bitcoin - and how big the opportunity really is. Also learn about sBTC!

7 mins

+4,000 XP!

Clarity: The programming language for Stacks

An introduction to Clarity - the programming language for Stacks. Learn about functional programming, the basic data types, how to write functions, and more using Clarity.

20 mins

+7,000 XP!

SIP-010 Fungible Tokens & Traits

Learn how fungible tokens on Stacks work, what the SIP-010 standard is, what traits are and how they are implemented in Clarity, and how sBTC works.

11 mins

+7,000 XP!

Project: Build a token streaming protocol

Build your own token streaming DeFi protocol on Stacks using Clarity - inspired by Superfluid. Set up a Clarinet dev environment, build and test your contract, and deploy it to the Stacks Testnet!

25 mins

+10,000 XP!