Stacks Launches Incentive Program Distributing 3 BTC in Rewards

The Stacks network is launching a 90-day incentive program to encourage users to participate in its Bitcoin-native DeFi ecosystem. The program will distribute 3 BTC across the full run, paid directly to participants as rewards for borrowing the stablecoin USDCx or supplying liquidity to USDCx trading pairs.

The program kicks off around September 10, 2026, timed to Bitcoin block 966,350. Users who borrow USDCx against sBTC or STX collateral qualify for a share of the monthly BTC distribution. So do users who add liquidity to USDCx trading pairs on the network.

sBTC is a 1:1 Bitcoin-backed asset native to the Stacks ecosystem, meaning one sBTC is always redeemable for one Bitcoin. Using it as collateral to borrow a stablecoin is essentially the same move institutional desks have been running with wrapped Bitcoin on Ethereum for years, just executed within the Stacks environment and rewarded with more BTC on top.