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Leading BTC companies expressed their interest to participate in the RSK Federation

Several of the most influential Bitcoin companies worldwide have expressed their support to promote Smart Contracts over the Bitcoin network by participating in the RSK Federation. August 3rd, 2016 – Buenos Aires The RSK network is the first turing-complete platform to run Smart Contracts secured by the Bitcoin Network. In addition to the security provided […]

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Lessons from the DAO incident

Lessons from the DAO incident

By Sergio D. Lerner @sdlerner One of our goals at RSK has been to focus on real-world applications of the smart-contract technology. Although we are excited to see radical new approaches to very old trust problems such as DAOs, we think that Bitcoin, the blockchain, smart-wallets and crypto-assets hold enough disruption potential so that just […]

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Sidechains, Drivechains, and Rootstock 2-Way peg Design

Sidechains, Drivechains, and Rootstock 2-Way peg Design

What is a 2WP A 2-way peg (2WP) allows the transfer of bitcoins from the Bitcoin blockchain to a Secondary blockchain and vice-versa. The “transfer” is in fact an illusion: bitcoins are not transferred, but temporarily locked on the Bitcoin blockchain while the same amount of equivalent tokens are unlocked in a secondary blockchain. The […]

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Sidechains, Drivechains, and RSK 2-Way peg Design

Sidechains, Drivechains, and RSK 2-Way peg Design

What is a 2WP A 2-way peg (2WP) allows the transfer of bitcoins from the Bitcoin blockchain to a Secondary blockchain and vice-versa. The “transfer” is in fact an illusion: bitcoins are not transferred, but temporarily locked on the Bitcoin blockchain while the same amount of equivalent tokens are unlocked in a secondary blockchain. The […]

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Press Release: RSK Labs raises 1M to bring Smart Contracts to Bitcoin Blockchain

Press Release: RSK Labs raises 1M to bring Smart Contracts to Bitcoin Blockchain

BUENOS AIRES – March 21, 2016. We are pleased to announce that in a round led by Bitmain Technology, the world’s largest bitcoin hardware mining producer, Coinsilium, a leading blockchain investment firm based in London and Digital Currency Group, the prolific investor from New York, RSK Labs raised $1 million to further develop the first […]

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Following the yellow brick road

Hi everyone! This is our first post in the RSK Labs blog, and hopefully the first of many more posts explaining the technology behind the RootStock (RSK) platform. RSK is an open source project and as such, the participation and engagement of the whole community is extremely important. For this reason, we want to open […]

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