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The Stack Digest is a weekly newsletter about loyalty, points, and roundup on all things Stack enjoyed in 5 mins or less

What's covered 👇

🧪 Points program spotlight - Onchain Arcade, Coop Records, Sweetman, Scene Infra Co., and Rehash are all using points creatively to recognize and reward relationships with users.

💲 Stablecoins are exploding and will play an important role in the onchain economy. We've curated 3 must-reads on the future of payments and loyalty.

Points Program Spotlights

Stack, Coinbase, and Atari launched Breakout, the second game in the Onchain Arcade! Mint to play and enter the onchaind leaderboard at arcade.fun

Scene Infrastructure Company team launched Mesh last weekend at FWB Fest 2024 and used Stack to power a community points system for Fest attendees. Attendees used Mesh to check-in to Fest, chat with one another, and connect with friends by 'meshing' -- a quick QR code scan that links two people together as part of the network of connections inside of the FWB universe. FWB is planning to use the Stack-powered points system in Mesh across all of its future events, with future rewards for top meshers including priority access to events, airdrops of the soon-to-be-launched $BENEFITS token, and more.

Rehash, the first community-owned podcast hosted by Diana Chen, announced their points program to recognize and reward fans who mint their episodes, participate in guest elections on JokeRace, subscribe to Rehash Podcast Club on Hypersub, follow Rehash on Warpcast, and were early to support Rehash during their April 2022 Mirror Crowdfund launch.

Coopahtroopa announced Coop Records platform, a home for onchain music with points powered by Stack. The platform combines minting onchain music with incentives and rewards from a number of onchain tools.

Sweetman started using Stack as an alternative to the Ethereum Attestation Service for indexing Base and Zora smart contract data. In the last week, he's started building new apps and leaderboards around onchain media.

📰 Loyalty must-reads

Here's what the Stack team read this week 👇

💲 Harvard Business Review details the growing race to dominate stablecoins and potential for "stablecoins to fade into the background and turn into loyalty points"

🎯 Andreesen Horowtiz thinks Target's RedCard Program is a model for future of payments

🎙Tether announced plans to double their workforce in the next year, coming off a hot earnings quarter