Explore the fundamentals of Rootstock, as well as guides and tutorials for navigating the ecosystem.
Subscribe to our newsletterAs announced a few weeks ago, the RSK network will be undergoing a planned network upgrade at block number 1,591,000. This is expected to happen on Wednesday, July 31st, 2019. What is a network upgrade? A network upgrade is a change or group of changes to the protocol consensus rules, which are activated at a defined […]
By Sergio Demian Lerner, RSK Chief Scientist Introduction to Bitcoin Mining Bitcoin Mining is the process used by Bitcoin to achieve Sybil-attack resistance and forms the basis for Nakamoto Consensus. The process involves solving computationally difficult puzzles while selecting a valid set of transactions to be applied to the ledger. Nowadays most Bitcoin mining is […]
On this post, RSK´s CTO Adrian Eidelman, answers the questions from June´s AMA. What are the next major development milestones? We’ve recently shared with the community the RSK roadmap that includes the upcoming milestones: https://rootstock.io/blog/development-roadmap/ The updates are mostly targeted to security. We’re also in the Testnet rollout phase of Wasabi 1.0.0, RSKj next version, which […]
A few days ago we announced we would be doing a fresh restart of RSK Testnet as part of RSK Wasabi rollout plan. Having successfully completed the process of updating our nodes, we’ve made a Wasabi 1.0.0 Preview release available. Please note this release is only mandatory for users running RSK nodes on Testnet. IMPORTANT: if you are updating […]
We are pleased to announce the release of the RSK platform development roadmap. Sharing it will enable us to have meaningful conversations with developers, researchers, partners and the RSK/RIF community on how our vision and technology can empower our society. The roadmap is an open statement, a guide stating how we are prioritizing our efforts. […]
In preparation for our upcoming network upgrade (Wasabi), RSK Testnet will be reset and network servers updated with a new and enhanced version of the RSK client node. What does a Testnet reset mean? A reset is a fresh start of the blockchain. All servers provided by RSK will be restarted and upgraded to a […]
Blockchain technology has the potential to transform the lives of billions of people by generating social impact. Just to mention a few examples, it can bank the unbanked, increase traceability on many products and services that we consume on a daily basis, create digital identities, reward scientific and medical research, etc. According to an interesting […]
When thinking about blockchain technology, people many times tend to think solely about cryptocurrencies, tokens and crowdfunding through digital assets. However, these are just expressions of a technology that has the potential to transform multiple industries and organizations. Just like the Internet, blockchain technology has the capacity to transform the lives of billions of people […]
Blockchain as a technology has a lot of different use-cases. Just to mention a few, we can use it as a way to store value (Bitcoin), as a way to deploy the code that controls organization (DAOs), as a crowdfunding method through crypto-assets (ICOs, STOs & Private Sales) or as a programmable framework to execute […]
On this post, we analyze with RSK´s Chief Scientist, Sergio Lerner, the cutting edge of sidechains with Liquid and RSK. By Sergio Lerner In 2016 Blockstream proposed Pegged Sidechains as possible path to scale Bitcoin. The first original Sidechain concept was a combination of atomic swaps using cross-chain SPV proofs (as in p2ptradex) and alt-chains. […]
On this post, we analyze the main differences between RSK, Ethereum & EOS. On its paper entitled A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform, Vitalik Buterin was already mentioning the possibility to explore blockchain technology for many different uses besides acting as a mean to store value through Bitcoin. Quoting from his whitepaper: “However, […]
We are happy to announce the launch of IOV Labs brand. IOV is the brand behind RSK and RIF Platforms. RIF Labs that acquired RSK Labs will soon be renamed IOV Labs in order to differentiate the organization from the open source RSK and RIF OS protocols that the company built in order to extend Bitcoin […]
