A Review of the Stacks Blockchain from a RSK perspective

Verifiable Delay Functions

A brief and gentle introduction

Introduction

Bitcoin Sidechains

The history and attributes of Bitcoin Sidechains

Commitment Schemes

Basic concepts and ideas

Motivation: a day at Christie’s

Modern Merge-mining

The Bitcoin community welcomes Bitcoin sidechains because they are increasing Bitcoin’s utility now and probably they will…

Similarities and Differences between RSK and Ethereum

The RSK project started as a fork of an Ethereum codebase in 2016 and it was developed for 2 years until it was finally launched in 2018. During those years, crucial data structures were upgraded, and precompiled contracts and new…

Private Smart Contract Execution

A survey of existing proposals

Introduction

Choosing the right curve

I was tasked to research how second layer aggregation and privacy protocols work, especially Aztec and zkSync. My…

Post-Quantum Cryptography

A blockchain perspective

The RSK Emergency Multisig

For many years, it was believed that the federated model was the best method to secure the two-way-peg of a…