Explore the fundamentals of Rootstock, as well as guides and tutorials for navigating the ecosystem.
Subscribe to our newsletterTraditional finance is essentially flawed, with centralized control of systems plagued by efficiency-curtailing intermediaries. Despite enhancements in usability and user experience, primarily backed by innovations in Fintech, centralized finance evokes persistent privacy concerns. On one hand, users have little or no control over their financial data. On the other, such data is stored in centrally-located […]
In 1982, David Chaum proposed a decentralized method for mutually non-trusting counterparties to achieve and maintain consensus over transaction records. Leveraging primitive cryptographic methods and securing the network using physical vaults, Chaum’s intuitive idea involved a threshold secret sharing protocol. At the time, the innovation went mostly unnoticed, except within certain niche circles. Adopting Chaum’s […]
We’re pleased to announce that a new RSK Papyrus release has been published in our Github repo. This release contains relevant improvements from community feedback. Thanks to all RSK buidlers for your contributions! This is a summary of the changes included in this version: Add Content-Type field in JSON RPC responses (#1390) Consider minimum gas price in […]
The year 2020 was nothing short of a roller-coaster ride for the world. From the onset of a ravaging pandemic to the unprecedented crash and recovery of the global stock, commodity, and crypto markets, 2020 made us witness it all. Amidst all the uncertainty and challenges, RSK continued to reach new heights. In fact, we […]
In general, it’s difficult to provide a consistent, all-encompassing definition for identity. Indeed, there can be several answers to the question, what is identity? Not intending to proceed with such vagueness, let’s take World Economic Forum’s definition which regards identity as an entity comprising three major attributes: inherent, accumulated and assigned. Inherent are those attributes […]
While there are many innovative blockchain-based projects and services in existence today, the fledgling industry has yet to achieve a sliver of its full potential. This is because these novel solutions are often inaccessible outside of their own particular blockchain-based ecosystem. It is this “siloed” approach for these decentralized technologies that is preventing the creation […]
DeFi – the crypto world’s poster child of 2020. Transaction volume in the DeFi industry grew more than 10-fold, surpassing over US$123 billion in volume from Q2 to Q3, according to a report by decentralized app (dApp) tracker DappRadar on the state of the DeFi world. Of those transactions, 96% were on Ethereum, the world’s […]
The year 2020 has consolidated its place in mankind’s history, though not in a very positive light. People from across cultures, geographies, and professions have lost their lives and livelihoods at scale. As the global economy has significantly dwindled, businesses have been facing massive losses in revenues, as well as in resources. Indeed, the pandemic […]
Accessing the Rootstock ecosystem has become a lot easier thanks to Liquality. Users of this cross-chain supportive wallet can now experiment with Rootstock DApps, atomic swaps, and much more. This is a significant step forward for the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem. The Main Purpose of Liquality In this day and age, cryptocurrency wallet users want to […]
In 2008, Bitcoin’s release sparked a major paradigm shift in the global outlook towards money and financial institutions. Among other aspects, it marked the first-ever stable implementation of blockchain technology to build a decentralized, peer-to-peer monetary framework. It enabled the possibility for creating, storing and transferring monetary value without involving third-party intermediaries such as banks, […]
Over the last two years and specially along 2020, Open Finance has emerged as one of the most promising use cases of blockchain technology. Courtesy its potential to transform traditional financial systems, Open Finance has piqued immense enthusiasm at almost every level of the crypto community, including developers, investors, and even amateur users. In general, […]
From household essentials to electronic gadgets, there is often substantial gap between a product’s place of origin and its market. In fact, the lifecycle of any given product has multiple stages. These complex processes comprise the supply chain which forms the backbone of retail and product-based industries. In turn, the degree of efficiency in supply […]
