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Subscribe to our newsletterOn 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 […]
On this post, we get the April 2019 AMA answers from RSK & RIF Chief Scientist, Sergio Lerner. What real world use case projects are under development? Do you have any examples? There has been an acceleration of developers choosing to build their solution on top of RSK. Some of the solutions/implementations already available on […]
A new RSK Orchid release has been published in our Github repo. This release contains performance improvements, storage requirements decrease and minor bug fixes. Several codebase refactors and cleanup are also part of this milestone. This is a summary of the changes included in this version: Codebase refactors and cleanup (#803, #796, #798, #792, #786) […]
A few days ago Microsoft added RSK Smart MainNet as a public blockchain to be run on Azure as a service, making RSK one of the few public blockchains currently supported by a major cloud provider like Microsoft. The integration with Microsoft’s blockchain-as-a-service marketplace (BaaS) allows developers to deploy and configure an RSK node in […]
On this post, we get the answers from Diego Zaldivar’s AMA. How exactly does the 2-way peg work for RBTC? Is it a Smart Contract? Do exchanges deal with this in real time? Can end-users also interact with this smart-contract directly, without having to go through an exchange? If so: how? If not: why not? […]
RSK was born in 2015 as an Ethereum-compatible Bitcoin sidechain. Back in 2016, when the RSK sidechain was still under development, we decided to improve and simplify its design by replacing one of the key components of Ethereum: the account trie, also called “world state” trie in Ethereum’s yellow paper. The world-state trie is the […]
How can we solve problems that affect millions of people today? What do we need in order to achieve this? Is it enough to solve the the technical challenges? Bitcoin was created to give economic freedom to individuals but also to set the foundations for the the construction of a new Internet transforming the transfer […]
At OAK our core technology is a universal blockchain engine that allows intelligent nodes for any protocol to run on virtually any hardware. A fully decentralized and connected world means we’ll have billions of devices connected to blockchain, from laptops and smartphones, to smart speakers and who-knows-what. Yet unlike today’s internet, devices of the decentralized […]
dexFreight is a decentralized, blockchain-based logistics platform that allows shippers, carriers and other supply chain stakeholders to transact and collaborate more efficiently, transparently and securely. The logistics industry is plagued with inefficiencies, costly delays caused by manual processes, data fragmentation, slowed payments and further impacted by fraud, theft and counterparty disputes. dexFreight integrates blockchain, smart […]
It was November 2015 and RSK Labs started working on bringing smart contracts to the Bitcoin Network. There was no space for the motto “one blockchain rules them all“ at the company’s HQ and interoperability became the north. At the end of the day, everything came down to collaboration. Development started and building a partner […]
January 3rd marked the 10th anniversary of the Bitcoin’s genesis block and the 1st anniversary of RSK, the first Smart Contract Network powered by the Bitcoin infrastructure. Bitcoin has proved to be the non-turing complete safest settlement network for more than 5 years until Ethereum got into the space bringing smart contracts to life. One […]
