IOV labs Value Week, May 2022 in Hilton Pilar, Buenos Aires. On the 6th of May 2022, my colleagues and I from Nigeria arrived at the Hilton Honors hotel in Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina, for IOV Labs Value Week after 23 hours of flying — transiting in Istanbul, Turkey, and…

Welcome to the tutorial on how to set up a Hardhat project for RSK Testnet. In this tutorial, we’ll do the following steps: What is Hardhat? Setting up your environment Creating and configuring a new Hardhat project Writing and compiling smart contracts Prerequisites To follow this tutorial, you should have knowledge…

Originally published on the RSK Developers Portal. Smart contracts are a means to execute code and store data on a blockchain. To understand how smart contracts work, read What is a Smart Contract? Source code verification provides transparency for users interacting with smart contracts. …

Originally Published on Hackernoon Centralization runs deep in society in the form of corporations, businesses and governments. Not that they’re bad, but blockchain technology can offer a viable structural alternative by creating a more transparent and accountable system. The idea of open-source decentralization is to redistribute power and to create…

ERCs vs EIPs vs RSKIPs Ethereum Requests for Comment (ERCs), and Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) refer to the same thing — they were originally called ERCs, and then subsequently renamed to EIPs. These are all focused on improvements to Ethereum. RSK Improvement Proposals (RSKIPs) use a similar process to improve RSK. A small subset of…

About expanding the emergency multi-sig, peg-out tx fee-bumping, time-lock refresh, bridge UTXOs selection, consolidation, and batching. On 19th August 2021, The RSK Ecosystem held its third community call. The aim of these community calls is to discuss the RSK Improvement Proposals — RSKIPs, get the community involved, gather feedback, discuss…

Introduction to Iris 3.0.0 network upgrades, powpeg security and flyover protocol. On 16th July 2021, The RSK Ecosystem held its second community call. The aim of these community calls is to discuss the RSK Improvement Proposals — RSKIPs, get the community involved, gather feedback, discuss the RSK consensus protocol, the…

What is a Digital Asset? In broad terms, a digital asset is a non-tangible asset that is created, traded, and stored in a digital format. Using this definition In the context of blockchains, digital assets include cryptocurrency and crypto tokens. The blockchain terms; token and cryptocurrency are often used interchangeably, as these are both digital…

The Research and Innovation team led by Diego Masini held a webinar on 26th April 2021 to introduce the RIF Enveloping Project to the RSK community. The RIF Enveloping team comprises of; Diego Masini Raul Laprida Julian Len The main motivation for the Enveloping Project is to allow users to…