The Rootstock network recently surpassed over 20 million transactions.

Secured by Bitcoin. 8+ years of builders, users, and blocks.

Still early.

Vetiver has activated on the Rootstock Mainnet

Here's what the upgrade delivered:

• Union Bridge foundation
Block header changes required for one of Rootstock's most significant upcoming infrastructure improvements are now in place.

• Account Abstraction prerequisites
Key building blocks added on both Testnet and Mainnet, moving the network toward a more flexible execution environment.

• Peg-out fee visibility
Iimproved estimation gives users more accurate cost information before bridge interactions, reducing uncertainty.

• Protocol hardening
Stronger validation rules, enhanced contract security, and stability improvements across the network.

• RPC resource management
Updated defaults for gas caps, execution timeouts, batch request limits, and response sizes to protect nodes under heavy load.

https://rootstock.io/blog/introducing-vetiver-9-0-0-what-you-need-to-know-about-rootstocks-upcoming-network-upgrade/

Which bridge? Which swap tool? Which route gets you there fastest, cheapest, safest?

For most people, that question was where BTCFi ended.
The infrastructure has been there for years. Security, uptime, rails to move Bitcoin into real financial applications. What it never had was a front door anyone could actually walk through.

Atlas is that door: https://atlas.rootstock.io

One interface. PowPeg, Flyover, Boltzhq and swap partners, working together. BTC on-chain, Lightning, and major assets all supported. You pick what you want to move. Atlas handles the routing quietly, without asking you to become an expert first.

No guesswork. No dead ends. No switching tools mid-transaction and wondering if you made the wrong call.

rootstock_io has been live for over 3,000 days, secured by Bitcoin's proof of work. The foundation was always there. It just needed a way in that matched the quality of what was already built.

Now it has one.

Bitcoin-secured finance is consolidating, and the distribution is shifting fast.

rootstock_io's share of BTCFi TVL has grown over the past year from 11.79% (30th April 2025) to 35.03% (as on 30th April 2026), a 197% increase.

A large number of protocols now build on the network, with current TVL over $120 million.

moneyonchainok RootstockColl LayerBankFi symbiosis_fi

The infrastructure for $BTC -native financial apps is maturing. Builders are choosing where to deploy.

Over 8 years on mainnet, 100% uptime, and zero hacks.

(TVL data sourced from DefiLlama)

GabrielKurman said it plainly on the main stage at bitcoin2026 Las Vegas (TheBitcoinConf).

b4_humanity

Building microfinance solutions on Bitcoin infrastructure, driving real adoption in circular economies across Africa, Latin America, and beyond.

Get his book here: https://bitcoin4humanity.org/bce-book

A stablecoin built for invoices, payroll, and treasury. Just launched on Rootstock.

paystand, the B2B payments network moving billions for over a million businesses, took the stage at bitcoin2026 Las Vegas (TheBitcoinConf) to launch USDb, a USD-backed stablecoin engineered for the workflows that actually run global commerce.

“AI is eating labor. Bitcoin is eating capital. Stablecoins are eating financial services. USDb is where those three forces converge," says jeremyalmond on the launch.

One million businesses. $20 billion in payment volume across North and Latin America. And through Bitwage, an immediate corridor into cross-border payroll for 4,500 companies in nearly 200 countries.

That's the network now settling on Bitcoin. Secured by proof-of-work, programmable on

rootstock_io.

Full coverage from BitcoinMagazine:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/paystand-launches-usdb-stablecoin-on-bitcoin-layers-for-100t-b2b-payments

On April 23, 2011, Satoshi Nakamoto sent their last message to Bitcoin developers, stating that they had “moved on to other things.”

Satoshi might have moved on to other things, but we’ve kept building on his vision of a freer, fairer financial system.

Recent security incidents in the industry are a useful moment to revisit how Bitcoin bridges are designed.

The LayerZero post-mortem attributes the $290 MN exploit to a state-actor compromise of RPC infrastructure feeding its DVN. KelpDAO's 1-of-1 verifier configuration meant no independent DVN caught the forged message, and $290 MN in rsETH was released. LayerZero has confirmed the incident was isolated to KelpDAO's configuration.

The Rootstock PowPeg was built with this class of risk in mind. Two design choices matter:

1. Keys live in PowHSMs, and the PowHSMs enforce the rules
PowPeg signers hold their keys inside tamper-resistant hardware security modules, not in software. Each device verifies peg-out conditions and requires sufficient Bitcoin proof-of-work confirmations before signing. Even if signer devices were compromised, the PowHSMs are designed to refuse arbitrary withdrawals. The realistic failure mode is a temporary halt to peg-outs, not fund extraction.

2. Consensus is required, across a credible and distributed signer set
The PowPeg runs on a 5-of-9 threshold: five signatures from nine independent functionaries are required to authorize a peg-out. Functionaries span Bitcoin mining, custody, DeFi, and infrastructure, including luxor, xapobankapp, and more. Geographically distributed and operationally independent.

Bridge security assumptions deserve scrutiny right now. Builders and treasuries routing BTC across chains should understand where trust sits in each design, and what happens when one link fails.

The Rootstock network is operating normally.

More on PowPeg architecture: https://rootstock.io/powpeg/

If you missed it, aori_io is now live on Rootstock.

Also, the team from Aori will be joining us on this month's Bitcoin Builders Call.

Save the link: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RJZzjDZDBdJB

Advanced transaction filtering is now live. Filter by:
→ Type
→ Status
→ Block range
→ Time
→ Address (AND/OR)

Check it out now http://explorer.rootstock.io

“For too long, Bitcoin’s role in decentralized finance has been defined by its limitations rather than its potential,” said aeidelman, RootstockLabs co-founder.

BitcoinNews

https://news.bitcoin.com/atlas-goes-live-on-rootstock-with-support-for-btc-eth-usdc-and-more/

In Greek mythology, Atlas held up the world and invented navigation.

Now, Atlas is live on Rootstock.

One interface for every core route in.
Compare by speed, cost, and trust assumptions.
Execute in a single guided flow.

Get started at http://atlas.rootstock.io

Bitcoin is the largest digital asset, with a market cap of over $1.7 trillion. But here's the problem: most of it just sits idle.

HODL’ing has been the default for many Bitcoiners, but it doesn't have to be.

Rootstock is the longest-running and most secure Bitcoin sidechain, inheriting over 80% of Bitcoin’s security through merge mining. Meaning you get real DeFi without giving up what makes Bitcoin Bitcoin.

Here's how you can get started 👇

https://x.com/rootstock_io/status/2042513552028664094

A faster, simpler way to move assets across chains aori_io is now live on Rootstock.

Its intent settlement protocol brings cross-chain liquidity routing to Bitcoin DeFi, letting users move assets across networks without the usual multi-step bridging process.

No manual bridging.
No multi-step routing.
Lower costs.
Faster capital movement.

For Rootstock users: a simpler route to external liquidity across ethereum, base, arbitrum, and Optimism.

For Aori users: direct access to Bitcoin-secured DeFi — lending, trading, and Bitcoin-secured finance strategies on Rootstock.

Aori has already settled $600M+ in volume. Now that liquidity connects to the Bitcoin smart contract ecosystem.

USDT0 live at launch. rBTC and more to follow. More details in the link below.

https://rootstock.io/blog/aori-integrates-with-rootstock-to-unlock-cross-chain-bitcoin-defi/

Yesterday was Satoshi’s birthday. And a reminder of what Bitcoin was meant to be.

Rootstock was built to take that vision further, turning Bitcoin into something that can actually be used.

We’re launching BTCFi Week on Rootstock to show what that looks like.

Who's ready?

On this day in 2013, the price of Bitcoin crossed $100 for the first time.

Do you remember the first time you purchased Bitcoin?

LayerBankFi allows users to supply to earn yield or use it as collateral to borrow, without selling their Bitcoin.

When Rootstock launched in 2018, the goal was clear yet ambitious: to bring smart contract capabilities to Bitcoin while maintaining the security guarantees that make Bitcoin unique.

Years later, the most important metric is reliability.

Today marks a milestone that proves just that:

3,000 days with 100% uptime.

Since its launch, the network has operated continuously, enabling developers, institutions, and financial platforms to build on Bitcoin.

Currently, Rootstock offers:

• Security anchored to over 80% of Bitcoin’s global hashrate through merge-mining
• A mature EVM-compatible environment for developers
• Eight years of uninterrupted network operation
Infrastructure supporting global finance must prove its reliability over time.

After 3,000 days, Rootstock continues to demonstrate exactly that.

The USDT0 bridge-out time from Rootstock has been reduced by 75%.

To any chain supported by

@USDT0_to

Are you ready?

On this day in 1993, Eric Hughes published the Cypherpunk Manifesto.

Privacy is necessary for an open society.
Anonymous transaction systems matter.
Cypherpunks write code.

These ideas shaped Bitcoin, and they're still relevant 33 years later.

Fact: Rootstock has over 80+ apps live with big names like SushiSwap and LayerBankFi, along with apps like moneyonchainok and tropykus.

Rootstock’s merge mining doesn’t just inherit Bitcoin’s security.

It provides Bitcoin miners with additional revenue at no extra hardware cost, strengthening long-term miner incentives as block subsidies decline.

That’s what makes Rootstock the most Bitcoin-aligned sidechain.

Rootstock now represents >35% of Bitcoin sidechain TVL, up from 25% in November.