Stacks sold out Bond 3 of its Bitcoin staking program already in the bootstrap phase, with institutions including Bullish and 21shares participating, as noted by trader CryptoMichNL.

Stacks completes Satoshi hardfork with 392.4M STX staked in cycle 141 and Binance confirms no delisting risk at $0.12 price amid bearish EMA structure.

Stacks founder Muneeb Ali pushes Bitcoin staking amid bear market, urging builders to focus on health and deep work for crypto's future.

According to @muneeb, Bitcoin will likely never add privacy at the base layer, so privacy features like stealth BTC addresses should be built on Layer-2s such as Stacks if the L2 is fully self-custodial (source: @muneeb on X, Nov 17, 2025). According to @muneeb, information can leak both when crossing a bridge and when moving funds from a public address to a stealth address, and he proposes a design with the public address on L1 and the stealth address on L2 (source: @muneeb on X, Nov 17, 2025). According to @muneeb, the hard technical requirement is a fully self-custodial L2 BTC model that guarantees users can always retrieve their BTC even if the L2 fails (source: @muneeb on X, Nov 17, 2025). According to @muneeb, he is actively working on this approach to enable stealth BTC addresses on an L2 like Stacks (source: @muneeb on X, Nov 17, 2025).