{"id":25123,"date":"2023-12-18T21:02:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T21:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/stacks-stx-price-soars-as-inscriptions-spike-transactions\/"},"modified":"2023-12-18T21:02:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T21:02:35","slug":"stacks-stx-price-soars-as-inscriptions-spike-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/stacks-stx-price-soars-as-inscriptions-spike-transactions\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacks (STX) price soars as inscriptions spike transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : CoinJournal: Latest Bitcoin, Ethereum &amp; Crypto News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"post-article-image  -mt-24  mb-8  lg:-mt-32  rounded  overflow-hidden\">\n<picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/1970\/01\/1677594439517-2a39e1d0-0bb8-4679-9ef4-9b4b23159ef1-smartcrop-750x375.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 750px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/1970\/01\/1677594439517-2a39e1d0-0bb8-4679-9ef4-9b4b23159ef1-smartcrop-363x181.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/1970\/01\/1677594439517-2a39e1d0-0bb8-4679-9ef4-9b4b23159ef1-smartcrop-750x375.jpg\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 750px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/1970\/01\/1677594439517-2a39e1d0-0bb8-4679-9ef4-9b4b23159ef1-smartcrop-363x181.jpg\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/>\n<\/picture>                    <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Stacks (STX) price has surged 16% in the last 24 hours, hitting levels last seen in March.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">The Bitcoin layer for smart contracts saw a huge spike in inscriptions, with a single block recording over 10k transactions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/stacks\/\">Stacks (STX)<\/a>, a smart contracts enabled layer 2 network looking to unlock the Bitcoin economy, has surged by more than 16% in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to market data from CoinGecko, the price of Stacks rose as high as $1.19 across major exchanges. The STX market cap rose to above $1.7 billion, and the last time STX traded at these levels was in March this year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As observed across the crypto market today, <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/stacks\/\">Stacks\u2019 price spike<\/a> defied the broader losses experienced across altcoins, with <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/bitcoin\/\">Bitcoin (BTC)<\/a> also hovering near $41k.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">STX price soars amid inscriptions craze<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The past few weeks have witnessed a new frenzy in inscriptions, the metadata embedded onto satoshis (sats), Bitcoin\u2019s smallest unit. The popularity of these inscribed texts, images and other metadata (NFTs on Bitcoin) has jumped amid BTC\u2019s price surge.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For Stacks, there was a massive spike in transactions in 24 hours on Sunday and early Monday, with a single block recording over 10k transactions. <a href=\"https:\/\/explorer.hiro.so\/block\/0x8af9880f14e3234ef1939b62377041a25fa761410dd06467d374c9a707390a16?chain=mainnet\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">On-chain data<\/a> showed block 132,377 on the L2 reached 10,371 transactions, the highest ever number of transactions in a single Stacks block.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Muneeb Ali, the co-founder of Stacks noted that Bitcoin degens\u2019 heavy minting, resulting in blocks with eight to ten times more transactions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GM to the Bitcoin degens who did heavy mints on Stacks L2 yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>It was great to see blocks with 8x-10x more transactions. The bulk of throughput improvements will go live with the Nakamoto release and WASM.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 muneeb.btc (@muneeb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/muneeb\/status\/1736742412670677399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Other than <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/tag\/smart-contracts\/\">smart contracts<\/a>, NFT capabilities and DeFi opportunities, Stacks\u2019s L2 solution allows for increased transaction speed and reduced fees.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">\n<hr class=\"mb-6\"\/>\n<h6 class=\"text-3xl  mb-4  text-green-300\">Share this article<\/h6>\n<hr class=\"mb-6\"\/>\n<h6 class=\"text-3xl  mb-4  text-green-300\">Categories<\/h6>\n<hr class=\"mb-6\"\/>\n<h6 class=\"text-3xl  mb-4  text-green-300\">Tags<\/h6>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/stacks-stx-price-soars-as-inscriptions-spike-transactions\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : CoinJournal: Latest Bitcoin, Ethereum &amp; Crypto News ) Stacks (STX) price has surged 16% in the last 24 hours, hitting levels last seen in March. The Bitcoin layer for smart contracts saw a huge spike in inscriptions, with a single block recording over 10k transactions. 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