Introducing The Rootstock Roadmap: 2024/25
Unveiled at Consensus 2024, this is the proposed roadmap of improvements for Rootstock, the longest running Bitcoin sidehcain, over the next 12 months.
Developed by core contributors from across the Rootstock ecosystem, this roadmap includes a range of Rootstock Improvement Proposals (RSKIPs) focused on increasing transaction speed, improving usability and security, including:
🔥 Reducing transaction confirmation times from 30 to just 5 seconds
🔥 Adding Lightning support to Rootstock’s peg-in and peg-out experience
🔥 Reducing peg-out transaction fees by up to 70%
🔥 Upgrading the PowPeg to a SegWit-compatible 2-Way Peg, increasing the number of entities overseeing Bitcoin transaction signing to over 60.
🔥 A native assets bridge that allows Bitcoin assets (Runes / Taproot Assets) to freely flow between the Bitcoin mainchain and Rootstock
🔥 Simplified, faster, and cheaper non-custodial BTC mainchain and LN-BTC swaps with Rootstock via Boltz
🔥 Preparing the development of a truly trust-minimized Bitcoin/Rootstock bridge that will harness -BitVMX and will not require changes to the Bitcoin consensus protocol
Developed by core contributors from across the Rootstock ecosystem, the roadmap includes a range of Rootstock Improvement Proposals (RSKIPs) focused on increasing transaction speed, improving usability and security.
Read more: https://rootstock.io/roadmap/
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What is Rootstock?
Born out of Argentina by a group of Bitcoin OGs, Rootstock has deep cryptographic, economic and philosphical alignment with Bitcoin. It is the longest running and largest Bitcoin sidehchain that brings all the programmability of Ethereum to Bitcoin with complete EVM compatibility. Over 60% of all the hash power of Bitcoin secures Rootstock thanks to the strong support of the Bitcoin miner community and its unique Merged Mined Proof-of-Work consensus mechanism.
Developerds around the world build on Bitcoin using Rootstock and launch apps focused on all kinds of things including lending, sending, paying, saving, borrowing, gaming, art, tokenisation of real world assets and more.