Smart Contracts for Bitcoin

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Stacks runs a smart-contract layer that already reads Bitcoin state and executes Clarity language contracts; miners have burned north of 600 BTC, developers deploy ~150 contracts called over ~70,000 times. A on‑chain parser contract verifies Bitcoin transactions and a recent trustless NFT swap on mainnet shows it works end-to-end. Writing results back to Bitcoin is not solved yet but active research leverages stacks miners’ Bitcoin transactions as a narrow wedge.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:03Smart Contracts 1. Permission-less for Bitcoin
3. 2:29Stacks Blockchain (6 mo since launch) 662 BTC 24K 408M
4. 5:37Trustless BTC Swap
5. 6:30React to BTC state
6. 9:20Change BTC state
7. 11:45Clarity on Stacks
8. 14:19Smart Contracts for Bitcoin
9. 14:55Parting Thoughts

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