Published inRootstockLabs: Research & TechnologyMerged Mining and DecentralizationIn this article we analyze the benefits and risks of merged mining, and we highlight the potential of blind merged mining to create a…Oct 9, 2023Oct 9, 2023
Published inRootstockLabs: Research & TechnologyOptimistic State Prefetching (OSP)A recent paper suggests that the EVM performance can be increased 6x with speculative execution. The idea is to use the information…Jan 30, 2023Jan 30, 2023
Published inRootstockLabs: Research & TechnologyEVM blockchain Scalability & ACID Database PropertiesThe main data structure that holds accounts, balances, code and contract storage in an EVM-based blockchain is the world state trie. The…Jan 26, 2023Jan 26, 2023
Published inRootstockLabs: Research & TechnologyMeasuring RSK SecurityA complex system’s security cannot be measured by a single metric. Security is the result of the combined strength of a series of…Apr 6, 20221Apr 6, 20221
Published inRootstockLabs: Research & TechnologyFlaws in Ethereum’s EIP-1559EIP-1559 added a mechanism for the Ethereum network to establish a base transaction gas price that dynamically changes depending on the…Jan 17, 2022Jan 17, 2022
Published inRootstockLabs: Research & TechnologyRSK ScalabilityIn 2015 a group of Bitcoiners including myself started brainstorming on how to use Bitcoin to achieve true financial inclusion. True…Jan 13, 2022Jan 13, 2022
Published inRootstockLabs: Research & TechnologyBlockchain ScalabilityTo be successful in building a new open financial system, blockchains need to scale. Scalability is a property of a blockchain design, an…Jan 7, 2022Jan 7, 2022
Published inRootstockLabs: Research & TechnologyCheaper Payment Rollups with Ephemeral Calldata(or how RSK can become a Data Availability Layer for Rollups)Oct 14, 2021Oct 14, 2021
Published inRootstockLabs: Research & TechnologyMore on the Security Against Fee Sniping in RSKIn a previous article we discussed different fee sniping attacks and we analyzed how they could impact RSK. In this article we dig deeper…Aug 4, 2021Aug 4, 2021
Published inRootstockLabs: Research & TechnologyThe RSK Emergency MultisigFor many years, it was believed that the federated model was the best method to secure the two-way-peg of a Bitcoin sidechain without…Jul 14, 2021Jul 14, 2021