Over the past century, scientific and technological progress has enabled unforeseen avenues for the global developmental paradigm. While innovations in medical sciences are saving millions of lives around the world, the average levels of income and education have also increased significantly. Furthermore, globalization has brought people closer to one another, especially with regard to welfare […]

DAI stablecoin is now available on RSK platforms fostering interoperability amongst different blockchains through the RSK-Ethereum Token Bridge allowing users and dApps to use DAI on RSK Bitcoin Sidechain.  As a result the  integration DAI is now accessible for all BTC-backed defi products including the RIF token and its variety of protocols. The integration is […]

The present state of blockchain and cryptocurrencies is much like the early-days of the Internet, that is Web 1.0. While there’s an immense potential to change the world, these innovations presently lack the ease-of-use that average users demand. This is a major deterrent to large-scale adoptions of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Although many are investing in […]

In today’s world, data is emerging as an increasingly valuable asset. From messaging a friend to hosting a complex Ecommerce website, a majority of our activities generate data. In the early days of computer technology, hardware such as floppy disks, CDs, flash drives or even HDDs were enough to store personal data. However, the Internet’s boom […]

The popularity and significance of cryptocurrencies are steadily on the rise. Promising whitepapers are being launched every day, institutional adoption is witnessing stronger trends and consequently more and more users are coming onboard. Moreover, several retailers are now accepting payments in cryptocurrency, marking definitive progress towards mainstream usage. As such, financial transactions are some of […]

We’re pleased to announce that a new RSK Papyrus release has been published in our Github repo. This release contains performance improvements, bug fixes and security improvements. This is a summary of the changes included in this version: Transaction relay improvements and handling of pending transactions fixes (#1266, #1134, #1253) New persistent storage for logs bloom reduces processing times […]

What is RskSwap? RskSwap automated market makers, or AMMs, is a class of decentralized exchanges that rely on mathematical formulas to set the price of a token. This allows users to swap ERC20 tokens instantly charging a 0.3% fee. This fee goes to the liquidity providers, they are users that locked their tokens on Uniswap […]

We are pleased to announce that the IOV Labs official wallet for the RSK ecosystem ‘RWallet’ is now available for iOS and Android users! 

Introduction Scalability and interoperability—two of the biggest challenges that the blockchain community is presently facing. In a broader context, these are also among the greatest hindrances to large scale mainstream adoption of this emerging technology. Consequently, there have been significant efforts among innovators, developers, and almost every other stakeholder in this domain to conceive of […]

The exponential rise in the popularity of decentralized finance (DeFi) is not going unnoticed. This equitable approach to finance not only poses a threat to the orthodox financial mechanisms that have, for long, stalled equality and financial freedom for the masses but also helps level the field for individuals who might not have had easy […]