The bitcoin community may soon have its own version of ethereum’s flagship decentralized finance (DeFi) platform.
RIF Labs, which built the RSK sidechain for tokens and smart contracts on top of bitcoin, has launched a "third layer" to help scale this technology.
RSK's effort to bring ethereum-like smart contracts to the bitcoin blockchain could go live in 2017, its lead developer has told CoinDesk.
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RSK Labs has raised $1m in funding to support the development of a smart contracts platform that would be built on the bitcoin blockchain.