Stacq

Crypto for normal people. Stacq lets anyone access and use crypto without having to worry about the complex stuff.

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Inspiration

The goal of Stacq is to make crypto more accessible, i.e onboard the next billion, through education and an easy to use transaction tool that removes the common crypto barriers to entry for new user.

What it does

Stacq combines stable-coins with practical UX especially for new users and crypto natives.

How we built it

Stacq combines smart-contracts, a backend and a mobile client. The smart-contracts are built with cairo, the backend is a python backend and the mobile client is a cross-platform expo and typescript app. Stacq also uses the avnu paymaster.

Challenges we ran into

Initially, we started the project working with the chipi sdk to manage user wallets/accounts. While the chipi sdk may be compatible with expo it had too many issues such that we had to fallback to custom wallet/account creation and management.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

While Stacq aims to make cyrpto more accessible, we managed to have a non-custodial setup that does not sacrifice on ownership.

What we learned

We got to learn a lot about cairo and actually use it, having some experience with rust made it somewhat easy.

What's next for Stacq

There a three features that remain for Stacq to be production ready,

  • A bridge that allows people with funds on other chains to move them on-to stacq and starknet, currently working on a rhino.fi intergration.
  • A crypto debit card intergration that lets people spend their funds anywhere, currently exploring options.
  • A liquidity layer that lets people convert between stablecoins and cash.

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