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Rootstock on the internet

Writing about Rootstock that is actually worth reading, sorted by what it is about. 45 pieces — explainers, protocol deep-dives, security analyses, post-mortems and research. Marketing is excluded wherever it was published, including on Rootstock's own channels.

Links last checked collected 8 Nov 2026 · how

Articles
45
Categories
9
Links verified
45
all of them · rechecked weekly
Left out
5
with reasons given

How this list is chosen

One test: does the reader learn how something works? A piece qualifies if it explains a mechanism, analyses a design, reports what went wrong, or argues a case someone could disagree with. Nothing qualifies on its title alone — each entry carries a summary of what the article actually contains.

What does not qualify, regardless of where it appeared: price commentary, token promotion, partnership announcements, launch PR, listicles, and the genre of article that explains at length that a thing is exciting without explaining what it does. This exclusion applies to official Rootstock channels too — their blog is cited where a post is genuinely technical, such as an incident report, and not otherwise.

Why the list is shorter than you might expect

That rule removes more than it sounds like it should. A great deal of the writing about any blockchain project exists to be found by search engines rather than to be read. The exclusions at the bottom name the cases where something looked like it belonged here and did not, so the judgement is visible rather than silent.

The PowPeg, the bridge and its security

How bitcoin crosses to Rootstock and back, and what secures it.

Independent security audits

Reviews by people paid to find problems, with the findings published.

Incidents and post-mortems

What broke, why, and what changed afterwards. Usually the most informative reading there is.

Protocol and architecture

How the chain itself is put together.

Merged mining and consensus

The relationship with Bitcoin's miners, and what it does and does not buy.

Virtual machine, state and scaling

Execution, storage cost and throughput.

Research and academic work

Peer-reviewed and preprint work on sidechains, merged mining and pegs.

Independent analysis and critique

Writing by people with no stake in making Rootstock look good.

Developer guides

Practical material for people building on or running the chain.

What was left out

Considered and not listed, with the reason. Judgement calls, and you may disagree — say so.

5 excluded
ItemWhy
rootstock.io/blog — "Parallel Transaction Execution: Why Blockchain Needs to Learn to Multitask" and "Bridging Without Blind Trust"Both load fine and both read as promotion rather than explanation. RSKIP144 and the Union paper cover the same ground with the detail intact.
rootstocklabs.com — "Rootstock Launches Powpeg, A Decentralized Pegging Mechanism" (8 December 2020)An unbylined corporate launch announcement. It fixes the launch date and teaches nothing about the mechanism; the Medium article six days earlier does.
Hacker News discussion threadsEvery Rootstock submission on Hacker News has zero comments; there is no discussion to link to.
A Coinspect audit of the PowPeg or the BridgeDoes not appear to exist publicly. Coinspect's published repository contains RIF and Sovryn reports only, despite third parties referring to a continuous-review arrangement.
L2BEAT's Rootstock page, and github.com/rsksmart/securityBoth 404. Each is cited by third parties as a source for Rootstock risk data or audit reports; neither exists.

Several genuinely technical Medium posts — on storage-rent performance, RSK against Ethereum, and a mining pool's account of why it merge-mines Rootstock — are absent because Medium refuses automated requests, so they could not be verified for listing. They are worth finding by hand.