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It’s been a busy week in the Stacks ecosystem! Last week, the Stacks Foundation unveiled the Stacks Ecosystem Roadmap. They also previewed the “Satoshi upgrades” to Stacks and sBTC. What does it all mean for you, the Stacks builder, especially in the context of Hiro products? Let’s break it down!
First, just a reminder that while Hiro is first and foremost a devtools company, we are actively involved in and contribute to the Stacks blockchain development. For instance, our engineers led the performance improvements in the recent 3.1.0.0.9 release.
The Stacks roadmap is split into 3 sections: Stacks Core, sBTC and ecosystem growth. Let’s go through them in order, I’ll focus more on the technical pieces that impact developers.
Stacks Core
For more, see stacksroadmap.com/#core
sBTC
For more, see stacksroadmap.com/#sbtc
Ecosystem growth
For more, see stacksroadmap.com/#growth
Outside of the above, we have an exciting roadmap for Hiro products. In a future post we’ll share a bit more about our overall product strategy. In the meantime, here are some things you can look forward to (this isn’t an exhaustive list!):
- Explorer: redesigned from the ground up to be performant, scalable and adaptive. This new design will roll out progressively so we can learn and iterate based on your feedback. Later this year, we’ll roll out a significantly better search experience!
- Clarinet: Coming soon are LSP enhancements: linter, inlay-hint, rename symbol, link to docs etc. We’re also looking at auto-generating Typescript clients for contracts so you don’t have to write boilerplate code. We’re also prototyping a Typescript to Clarity compiler so all you TS devs don’t need to learn a new language!
- Infrastructure upgrades: We’re making significant investments in the API and chainhook infrastructure. Our aim is to be fast, accurate and reliable.
- Documentation: We’re rethinking the information architecture and also thinking beyond the developer experience to the agentic experience (AX) – stay tuned for more details!
- Platform: We’ve already expanded our Hiro Platform services in 2025 with higher RPM API tiers, git-first full-stack project templates, and our new usage dashboards and analytics for builders, and we’ll be building on that base in the coming months with an enhanced web experience for chainhooks and tighter integrations with other Hiro products to accelerate the developer onramps into the Stacks ecosystem.
We’re also looking for feedback and input from builders who are running their own infrastructure (either stacks nodes or APIs), and in particular those who are running custom (i.e. modified) versions of Stacks. We’d love to understand your use-cases better, so we can solve those problems for you! If this is you and you’re open for a quick call, reach out to us.
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