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We’re pleased to announce that a new RSK Iris release has been published in our Github repo. This is a patch release that fixes a bug in how data is retrieved when using eth_getLogs JSON-RPC method. This is a non-mandatory upgrade, however we encourage users to upgrade to this version if they are running nodes […]

Change is the only constant and when Bitcoin (BTC) was launched by Satoshi Nakamoto shortly after the 2008 financial crisis, it was the birth of perhaps the most significant change in the global financial fibre for years to come. However, despite its near-perfect technical architecture, bitcoin needs to continually evolve with changing times to remain […]

The cryptocurrency industry today is home to more than $1.6 trillion in market cap and macro-factors considered, sky’s the ceiling for the global digital assets space. With the amount of money pouring into the cryptocurrency industry inflating with time, it is also important to consider the safety mechanisms in place — largely crypto wallets – […]

The cross-chain stablecoin protocol Babelfish has launched on RSK! BabelFish aggregates liquidity from various issuers and chains, and has quickly become the largest stablecoin on RSK. The meta-stablecoin XUSD reached $10mn in deposits within two months of being live on mainnet. The amount of solutions and integrations in the RSK defi ecosystem has experienced a […]

Blockchain technology, alongside gaming, has been among the fastest-growing industries over the last few years.  The profits generated by the gaming industry are indeed astronomical.  Today, things look even better for the blockchain and gaming industries. There has been a clear improvement in decentralization and how distributed ledger technology is helping companies track information, register […]

Smart contracts are usually not associated to something that has direct impact on people’s lives. However, RSK has multiple use cases that have a clear impact on different and diverse communities.  On this guide, we will go through RSK’s technology stack and which are the solutions that this blockchain network is sharing with the crypto […]

Blockchain technology is widely considered as one of the key contributing emerging technologies that hold the potential to kickstart the 21st century digital revolution and there is no dearth of reasons to believe so. Today, blockchain technology is disrupting all industries that have not undergone any significant efficiency improvement in the past decades, including industries […]

Bitcoin (BTC) has been expanding over the last years as a hedge against inflation. This is not only true when we analyze the expansion of BTC price but we can see it in the way Bitcoin works and how it has been programmed. In order to understand Bitcoin and how it works as a hedge […]

UPDATE: Block activation heights for Iris were communicated on the RSK community call held on July 16th. This article has been updated to reflect this. Summary The RSK network will be undergoing a planned network upgrade at block number 3,614,800. This is expected to occur on Thursday, August 19th 2021 at 12:00 UTC. This blogpost […]

The expansion of the cryptocurrency market has seen the creation of new solutions and services across different blockchain networks. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) had became one of the most hot topics so far in 2021. There is space for innovation, and companies know that. Projects from all over the world have searched for different ways to […]

We´ve seen many times confusion within the community when discussing concepts such as bitcoin fully validating nodes and their importance for the security of the network. Hence, we have decided to create a guide that discusses the importance of running a Bitcoin node. Let´s get into it! What is a Bitcoin Node? A Bitcoin node […]

For many years, hashing power centralization has been considered by some people as a weakness for Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency market. We have recently seen wide news coverage related to mining pools exiting China and the hashing rate has certainly decreased abruptly. Although this could have a short-term negative impact on Bitcoin’s price, it could […]