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- Stacks is a Bitcoin layer-2 network that settles its transactions to Bitcoin and supports smart contracts and apps.
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- Its flagship offering is Bitcoin Staking: BTC holders pair their BTC with STX (locked at 5% of the BTC value) and earn BTC-denominated rewards paid weekly from Stacks miners.
- Best for
- Institutions and BTC holders who want BTC-denominated yield without lending out their coins, and who accept exposure to STX because pairing STX at 5% of the BTC value is mandatory.
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- Also suitable for builders who want smart contracts that settle on Bitcoin.
- Pricing
- Stacks is a protocol, not a subscription service, and no platform or management fee is disclosed.
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- The real costs are structural: a mandatory STX commitment equal to 5% of the locked BTC value (USD-denominated at lock and locked for the full term)
- exposure to STX price moves during the roughly six-m
- Main limitation
- Retail users who want self-custodial staking today: that path is whitelisted for institutions and requires BTC minimums.
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- Also a poor fit for anyone who needs fully self-custodial pooled staking (the site states pooled staking is not self-custodial), guaranteed returns, or a single accountable vendor.
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About
- Stacks is a Bitcoin layer-2 network that settles its transactions to Bitcoin and supports smart contracts and apps.
- Its flagship offering is Bitcoin Staking: BTC holders pair their BTC with STX (locked at 5% of the BTC value) and earn BTC-denominated rewards paid weekly from Stacks miners.
What it helps with
- Puts idle BTC to work through protocol-generated rewards from Proof of Transfer miner bids, without lending or rehypothe
- Adds smart contracts and DeFi apps to Bitcoin without changing Bitcoin itself.
- Limits counterparty exposure for institutions by timelocking BTC on Bitcoin under the participant's own custody.
- Gives institutions a staking route with qualified custody providers already in use.
- Provides weekly BTC-denominated reward payouts rather than token-denominated emissions.
Capabilities
A practical view of what is available and where limitations apply.
| Offering | Available | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Self-custodial BTC staking | Limited | BTC is timelocked on Bitcoin L1 under the participant's custody and unlocks at the end of the bond; currently whitelisted for institutions with BTC minimums, with an open auction planned for 2027 subject to the SIP process. |
| Pooled staking via sBTC | Yes | Open path through staking pools using sBTC, a Bitcoin-backed asset secured by a signer set requiring 70% consensus. The site states pooled staking is not self-custodial. |
| Weekly BTC reward payouts | Yes | Rewards are distributed every 1,050 Bitcoin blocks in native BTC, with weekly payouts cited since September 17, 2026. |
| Mandatory STX pairing | Yes | Every staked BTC is paired with STX locked at 5% of the BTC value, USD-denominated at lock, for the full bond term. |
| Early exit | Yes | BTC is redeemable in about one Bitcoin block (roughly 10 minutes), but the remaining BTC yield for the period is forfeited and paired STX stays locked. |
| Slashing | No | Full BTC and STX are returned at timelock expiry regardless of behavior, per the official staking page. |
| Bitcoin finality | Yes | Since the Nakamoto upgrade, Stacks transactions reach Bitcoin finality; reversing a confirmed block would require reorganizing Bitcoin. |
| Independent audits and bug bounty | Yes | Stacks Core and sBTC are audited by independent firms with a public Immunefi bug bounty; the network-security page cites both $250K and $1M+ figures, so the current bounty size is unconfirmed. |
| Clarity smart-contract language safety | Yes | Decidable, not Turing complete, no reentrancy, and post-conditions abort transactions whose asset movements do not match what was declared. |
| Published BTC minimums and custody fees | Unknown | BTC minimums apply for institutional whitelisting but exact figures, network fees and custodian fees are not published by Stacks. |
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