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Stacks Roadmap | Upcoming Features & Milestones institutions ↓ Bitcoin Staking for Institutions Earn self-custodial BTC yield Get STX The capacity asset for Bitcoin stacking Resources Whitepaper, explainers, stats Bitcoin Yield Calculator Estimate your yield with Bitcoin staking Learn ↓ Stacks 101 What is Stacks & why Bitcoin Bitcoin Staking Resource Hub Stacking sBTC Network Security Bitcoin finality, signers, audits Build ↓ Build Guide to Building on Bitcoin Docs Contribute Grants GitHub ↗ Explore ↓ Bitcoin Native Finance Roadmap Blog Events Earn BTC Yield Grow Your Bitcoin The Stacks 2026 roadmap — built with the community — lays out how we're making Stacks the place where Bitcoin holders come to grow and manage their BTC. Read the roadmap Watch the intro What We've Shipped Recent milestones that are already moving the needle for Bitcoin builders and holders. APRIL 2025 SIP-039 (Clarity 5) with Unanimous Support Unrestricted inflows, outflows, and accessibility unlocked for users and institutions. Read March 2026 SIP-039: DeFi Capacity Boost (30x) Dimension-specific tenure extensions dramatically increase effective capacity for DeFi applications on Stacks. Read February 2026 Stacks 3.3.0.0.6 Network Upgrade Cuts chainstate daily growth by 20%+ and activates an improved signer state machine for sustained fast block production. Read December 2025 USDCx Launches on Stacks Bitcoin gets its top-tier stablecoin — USDC goes live, unlocking serious DeFi liquidity on Stacks. Read November 2025 Clarity 4 Goes Live Five new builder functions including passkey signature verification and on-chain contract verification ship via SIP-033/034. Read October 2025 Dual Stacking Launched The first protocol where Bitcoin earns Bitcoin — BTC-denominated rewards paid in sBTC through Proof of Transfer. Read Stacks Roadmap Consolidated and maintained by Stacks Labs Evolution of the Roadmap Thanks to the community's approval of SIP-031, core contributors have been able to address complexity through meaningful structural changes. For this updated approach, that means increased velocity, tighter feedback loops for builders, and concrete wins like the rapid rollout of the sBTC reward program and the active vote on Clarity 5. Stacks Labs and the Treasury Committee are aligned around an approach that centers on high-level vision and major milestones — focusing on real outcomes and progress rather than speculative feature dates. What The Roadmap Is & Isn't These are tentpole ideas and high-impact areas where we believe Stacks can uniquely thrive. This document will be updated regularly. Where work is already underway, we provide links to active discussions and project updates. This is also an open invite — each key area welcomes input and collaboration from builders. This is not a set-in-stone schedule with guaranteed release dates. Innovation in decentralization rarely follows a linear path. How the roadmap is shaped with community In early 2026, Stacks hosted a Roadmap Workshop Series to surface priorities directly from the people building on and using the network. Sessions covered Builders Reaching Scale, an Open Community Call, AI Enablement, and Next Gen Governance — bringing together Stacks Labs, the Stacks Foundation, the Stacks Endowment, and dozens of active contributors. The themes and priorities from those conversations directly informed this roadmap and the full notes available via the forum . The North Star: Growing Bitcoin Stacks will drive Bitcoin growth by building Bitcoin-native finance where both individuals and institutions come to grow and manage their Bitcoin. Stacks builds tools, products, and services that extend the capabilities of Bitcoin without compromising Bitcoin's fundamental values and security. Everything on this roadmap flows from a simple sequence — each phase creating the conditions for the next. Ongoing work is already happening to prepare for each phase. Phase 1 — Anchor CAPITAL Bitcoin Staking Establishes the economic foundation. Self-custodial yield gives Bitcoin holders a compelling reason to bring long-term capital on-chain. Self-custodial L1 Bitcoin Staking Sustainable yield mechanism STX as staking capacity Phase 2 — Scale INFRASTRUCTURE Performance With capital anchored, core performance upgrades prepare the network for real DeFi volume and AI agent activity at scale. 100x for throughput and performance Continuous core improvements sBTC bridge optimization Phase 3 — Grow Bitcoin-native Finance With proven infrastructure and real liquidity, a financial economy native to Bitcoin expands naturally. Lending, trading, perpetuals, programmable capital, all downstream of a thriving, capital-rich base. Native Bitcoin lending & borrowing BTC AI Agents & programmable capital Sustainable fee driven Bitcoin economy (sBTC as gas) Building the rails for Bitcoin-native finance What a winning Bitcoin layer provides and what “Bitcoin-native finance” looks like: Native BTC Yield Bitcoin-denominated yield for holders leveraging the layer. Healthy DeFi Loans, vaults, and Bitcoin-backed products with high engagement. Bitcoin-grade Safety Fewest possible trust assumptions. Always a safe exit path. Deep Liquidity Ubiquitous access across exchanges, custodians, and wallets. Fast & Scalable Near-instant transactions comparable to top payment rails. Privacy Transact privately with selective disclosure for compliance. How We're Getting There Browse key areas of research, development, and exploration below, divided into sections for the core blockchain, builder support, and ecosystem growth. Security partners Core Blockchain: Bitcoin Staking & Performance Enable Bitcoin-native finance where holders can stake, borrow, transact, and interact with DeFi without giving up custody or trust assumptions. Extending Bitcoin Capabilities Self-Custodial Bitcoin Staking: Holders lock BTC on Bitcoin (maintaining full custody) alongside a STX position on the Stacks, expanding PoX mechanism to attract and anchor long-term, high-value capital through a sustainable yield mechanism that captures clear value for STX and the network. Major Core Performance Upgrades Self Custodial Loans: Holders are able to retain custody of their Bitcoin on the L1 while borrowing against it on Stacks. Scalable, trust-minimized programmable payments: Agents and humans want to spend BTC. But they need fast settlement (seconds), manageable fees, and UX that "feels" like they've never left the L1. Trust-Minimized Bitcoin DeFi: Ongoing reduction of trust assumptions required for Bitcoin to interact with smart contracts. Compliant Privacy Options : Features that allow institutions and retail users to manage Bitcoin while protecting financial history, business strategies, and sensitive information. 100x Throughput: Enhanced scaling and throughput (via Clarity Wasm and other efforts) with a working goal of increasing chain speed and throughput by 100x. sBTC Bridge Optimization: Improve sBTC bridge experience, considering paths such as dynamic scaling by transaction size, and others. AI / Agent Infrastructure Collaborate with leading AI projects to support 10k active agents. Open agent frameworks, agent account contracts, agentic readability of docs/APIs. Security: Continued major investment in sBTC and Core security, including the ongoing development and use of new AI-powered testing suites. Improved Node UX Reduce disk space requirements (early tests show ~70% improvement ) and operational complexity. Improvements to both node and Stacking mechanics/operations to reduce costs and increase profitability for network operators and builders. Builder Support: Developer Tools & Enablement Push Stacks toward a best-in-class developer experience while adding full support for Bitcoin Staking across tools. Work with builders to enhance their ability to produce high quality, secure code. Clarinet & Clarity Toolchain: Improvements to testing, linting, security tooling, cost estimation, and deployment flow. Stacks.js and Application Building: Building a modular and type-safe TypeScript library for all interactions with the blockchain and our APIs. Stacks Extended API & Chainhooks: Modernizing endpoints for performance and reliability. The Stacks Mesh API is included to support exchanges integrating Bitcoin Staking. Founder focused programming and funding: In concert with the Stacks Endowment, we will ship multiple programs aimed at onboarding high-quality, mature teams ready to build on Stacks. Ecosystem Growth Drivers: Core Apps, Onboarding, Partners Accelerate the end-to-end onboarding and growth of major institutional partners, infrastructure providers and Bitcoin capital users for Stacks. This includes making Bitcoin Staking widely accessible and intuitive by providing hands-on integration support for institutional and other ecosystem partners. This also includes maintenance and user support for the key Lab-maintained product surfaces that drive adoption and onboarding. Bridging & Partnerships Partner Support: Hands-on technical support and co-design for institutional partners like Fireblocks, Bitgo, Ledger, and others integrating Stacks capabilities (including Bitcoin Staking) into their platforms. Wallets & Onramps: Explore integrations and support for STX and Bitcoin Staking with major wallets outside the Stacks ecosystem as well as additional strategic fiat on-ramps (fiat → BTC/sBTC/STX) as resources and available deals allow. Thoughtful Cross-Chain Asset Bridging: Operating and improving bridge infrastructure (esp. for stablecoins) in strategic lockstep with builders so that assets can move onto Stacks reliably. User Experience Reducing friction across core dApps, focusing on priorities such as: Fee Abstraction: Exploring pathways to allow sBTC to be used for transaction fees, reducing the requirement for users and agents to hold STX solely for gas. This is being evaluated for feasibility and implementation approach. Passkey / WebAuthn support: for wallet creation and agent wallets. There is ongoing work related to this from Core Contributors Degen Labs, with support from the Stacks Foundation. Stacks Explorer: The explorer received a substantial design overhaul in 2025 and remains open source — we welcome community contributions and will continue iterating based on specific usability feedback as ecosystem activity grows. Leather Wallet Partnership Leather is a critical gateway to the Stacks ecosystem. Labs' partnership with Leather in 2026 is focused on ensuring the wallet keeps pace with the ecosystem's most important product launches and fills critical functionality gaps that are limiting adoption. We'll work directly with their team on key upgrades such as: Native Bitcoin Staking support: Leather must be a first-class interface for the Bitcoin Staking program. Multi-sig functionality: Adding multi-signature wallet support to Leather, enabling shared custody arrangements that institutional users and teams require. Multi-sig is a prerequisite for meaningful institutional participation. Ledger hardware wallet integration: Continuing to support and improve the Ledger app ensuring that hardware wallet users have a reliable, up-to-date integration path for interacting with Stacks through Leather. Improved Leather interactions: General UX improvements to core wallet interactions: transaction signing, token management, dApp connections (based on user feedback and observed friction points). BNS V2 / Bitcoin Identity: Support for BNS V2 is on the backlog for both Leather and the Explorer. As usage and demand grow, we intend to bring improved Bitcoin identity features into the products where they matter most. Security partners Read the roadmap. Find where you fit. Build with us. This roadmap was built with the community. Now we need builders, contributors, and believers to help make it real. 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