BTC staking reaches 735, and the Stacks Q3 ecosystem report shows STX staking volume growth of over 25%

Odaily reports that Bitcoin Layer 2 platform Stacks has released its third-quarter ecosystem report. Data shows that during the first two locking cycles, a total of 735 BTC entered the Bitcoin staking system. Since the PoX-5 hard fork, the amount of STX participating in staking has grown by more than 25%, increasing from 392 million to 493 million. In the first locking cycle, Bond 1, a total of 230 BTC was deposited, with participants including 21shares, HashKey Cloud, UTXO Management, and Sypher Capital; in the second locking cycle, deposits doubled to 505 BTC.