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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 […]
The RSK network will be undergoing a planned network upgrade at block number 1,052,700. This is expected to happen on Wednesday, January 9th, 2019. RSK Testnet network upgrade will happen at block number 233,000, expected on the same date. What is a network upgrade ? A network upgrade is a change or group of changes to […]
It’s among our best interests to provide compatibility with Ethereum smart contracts, and we work hard everyday to accomplish this goal. Our partners play a key role discovering and reporting misalignments between platforms. Thanks to the latter, we’ve recently discovered some incompatibilities between RSK VM and contracts written in Solidity versions 0.5.0 and higher. We’re […]
To our beloved RSK community, As we continue to work on the development of the RSK Smart Contract Network (RSKSmart), we wanted to provide an exciting update about RSK Labs. The RSK Labs founders and other executives and advisors have been working on a new off-chain infrastructure layer called RIF OS that uses RSK Smart […]
A new RSK Orchid release has been published in our Github repo. This release is mainly focused on bug fixing and security improvements. This is a summary of the changes included in this version: Consider gas price for accepting tx pool replacements (#662) Add v, r and s EC values to JSON-RPC tx outputs (#661) […]
A few days ago we announced a fresh restart of our RSK Testnet. Having successfully completed the process of updating our nodes (at the moment of writing this post the Bridge contract is still being synced and so faucet is still not available), we’ve made a new Orchid release available. Please note this release is […]
UPDATE – October 10th 2018: we have successfully completed Testnet reset. On Tuesday, October 9th 2018, 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 […]
A new RSK Orchid release has been published in our Github repo.This release is mainly focused on bug fixing and security improvements. This is a summary of the changes included in this version: Collect NodeHandler reputation when purging (#641) Consider gasPrice in miner transactions selection algorithm (#651) Bug fixing and code clean up (#640, #642, #643, #644, #650, #653) You […]
