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Bitcoin DeFi Security Improves as Rootstock Boosts Hashrate Share
Rootstock is one of numerous projects looking to bring greater utility to Bitcoin by expanding the provision for DeFi with smart contracts.

RootstockLabs Prepares to Release SDKs for Bitcoin Layer 2s Using BitVMX
Rootstock founder Sergio Lerner sees Bitcoin layers-2s as fundamental to BTC fulfilling its purpose of being "money for the people"

Blockchain Bridging Protocol LayerZero to Connect With Bitcoin Sidechain Rootstock
Rootstock's aim is to end Bitcoin's "isolation" from other chains due to its lack of native smart contracts.

Sergio Demian Lerner: Making Bitcoin More Programmable
The founder of Rootstock is working to create a framework for running programs on Bitcoin and enabling the development of more sidechains and Layer 2s.

Build-on-Bitcoin Trend Imports Another Concept from Ethereum: the DAO
RootstockCollective, a new decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, is designed to encourage builders and users of Rootstock – one of the oldest and most closely watched projects among the fast-growing ranks of layer-2 blockchains built atop Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Layer 2 Rootstock Verifies Zero-Knowledge SNARK
Rootstock verified the SNARK using BitVMX, which is Rootstock's modified version of BitVM

Decentralized Exchange SushiSwap Goes Live on Bitcoin Sidechain Rootstock
Rootstock's goal is to combine the security of the Bitcoin network with the smart contract capabilities of Ethereum

Bitcoin's Ethereum-Style Programmability Could Come in 12 Months, Rootstock Founder Says
The new project would build off the much-discussed "BitVM" design released last year by developer Robin Linus, which has kindled hopes that the oldest and largest blockchain could eventually see Ethereum-style programmable layer-2 networks.

Bitcoin Could See Growth in Layer-2 Ecosystem, Drawing on Ethereum's Experience: Report
The report by Singapore-based blockchain investment Spartan Group and Kyle Ellicott details how these auxiliary networks have drawn a page from the Ethereum blockchain's playbook, and could spring up as demand grows for blockspace on Bitcoin.

Bitcoiners Are Building a Sidechain Version of Ethereum's MakerDAO
The bitcoin community may soon have its own version of ethereum’s flagship decentralized finance (DeFi) platform.
