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Guide to Bridging USDC, USDT, and WETH to Rootstock via Stargate

Ecosystem

Moving assets to and from Rootstock is now easier than ever. With LayerZero integration, you can use Stargate, the most trusted and widely used bridge, to transfer USDC, USDT, and WETH smoothly into the Rootstock ecosystem to participate in the Bitcoin DeFi. Stargate connects…

February 20, 2025

LayerZero Integrates Rootstock: Building Bridges to Bitcoin DeFi

Ecosystem

It’s official! Rootstock is now integrated with LayerZero, a cross-chain messaging protocol that enables interoperability between blockchains. This integration unlocks seamless movement of Bitcoin-backed assets across 100+ blockchains. For the first time, you can move your Bitcoin across different DeFi ecosystems without complicated bridges, high fees,…

February 20, 2025

Bringing Fiat to Rootstock: A Guide to Getting rBTC

Users

The growth of Bitcoin DeFi has seen remarkable progress, with $6.6 billion of Bitcoin locked in DeFi protocols as of Feb 2025. And with Rootstock being the home of DeFi on Bitcoin, it is important to understand how you can access rBTC, the…

February 18, 2025

Leveraging Bitcoin’s Security: Exploring the Dynamics of Merged Mining

Ecosystem

By Patricio Gallardo, Researcher Engineer Merged mining, a mechanism that allows miners to contribute hashing power to multiple blockchains simultaneously, has positioned Rootstock as the most secure and decentralized layer 2 fully…

February 13, 2025

Introducing Lovell 7.0.0: What You Need To Know About Rootstock’s Upcoming Network Upgrade

Ecosystem

The Rootstock community has approved a set of consensus changes to be included in the upcoming Lovell network upgrade. Lovell will activate on Rootstock Mainnet on block 7,338,024. This is a mandatory upgrade; users who adhere to these changes must update their nodes to…

February 12, 2025

Arrowhead 6.5.1: Patch Release

Ecosystem

The Rootstock community is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the RSKj client, which is now available in the RSKj GitHub repository. This patch release reverts the JDK and JRE versions used in the Docker container from Java 21…

February 7, 2025

Bitcoin Mining 2.0: Foundry Now Merge Mines Rootstock

Ecosystem

Big news for the home of DeFi on Bitcoin – Foundry, the world’s largest Bitcoin mining pool, is now merge mining Rootstock, the longest-standing and leading Bitcoin layer. This means over 740 exahashes per second now secure Rootstock, around 80% of Bitcoin’s total…

February 6, 2025

POWpeg Compostition Change: Enhancing Network Security

Ecosystem

Summary: The Rootstock network will undergo a POWpeg change on block 7226594. Based on its current state, this is expected to occur on February 9th, 2025. Since the Bitcoin deposit address will change, it is strongly recommended that users verify the address before initiating any conversions…

February 5, 2025

AnonMarket: Revolutionizing Privacy in Predictive Markets with Rootstock’s Infrastructure

Developers

This article is part of the series “Real stories, Real builders” where we’ll share stories from developers who have built on Rootstock—what they created, why they chose it, how their projects are growing, and their advice for developers. Developers around the world are pushing the boundaries of what’s…

February 5, 2025

POWpeg App v2.3: The Safest Bitcoin Bridge is Now 50x Faster

Ecosystem

Bringing your Bitcoin into Rootstock where it can be used to participate in the Bitcoin DeFi economy just got a major upgrade. Rootstock’s native bridge, the POWpeg has been the unstoppable, uncensorable, and unbreakable Bitcoin bridge in existence since launching in…

January 31, 2025

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