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Posts relating to the latest news and updates within the crypto and blockchain industry as a whole.
Bedrock’s $uniETH Liquidity Pool is live on Sushi
We are thrilled to announce that Bedrock ($uniETH), a non-custodial solution developed in partnership with RockX, a well-established…
More than the Sum of Their Parts: Synergies Between Liquid Staking and Crypto Trading
The rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) presents novel opportunities for investors to seek yields through digital assets. One…
How Liquid Staking is Changing DeFi
Decentralized finance (DeFi) refers to financial applications built on blockchain technology that aim to provide similar services as…
Supporting Decentralization With Astar and Litentry
The access node API service is one of RockX’s leading product offerings and symbolizes our commitment to supporting…
Striving for Excellence: Now Supporting Two New Networks
As a blockchain infrastructure company, RockX’s access node service is one of the leading products offered by the…
How SSV Network’s Mainnet Launch Will Secure Ethereum
Decentralization is the key principle behind Distributed Validator Technology (DVT), an innovative open-source protocol that ssv.network has been…
The Importance of Staking in Maintaining Decentralization
It’s rapidly becoming the most important distinction and paradigm shift in blockchain and crypto history, and it never…
RockX June Roundup: The Seeds of Mainstream Crypto Utility
June 2023: Bringing Crypto Mainstream, Battle of Crypto Classification, and the Search for a New Crypto Hub News…
Changing Crypto Legislation Around the World
Legislation around crypto assets is witnessing a significant churn. The latest on the block is the Crypto Oversight…
How Custodians Can Benefit From Staking
The blockchain industry, while still nascent, has been growing steadily over the last few years. Of the various…
Understanding What Managing A Node Really Means
They are, arguably, the only guardians of blockchain integrity. In many ways and in most rising blockchain projects,…
The Potential Crypto Landscape in Europe
2021 was a great year for cryptocurrencies, with pretty much every token in green, as this new asset…
Keep Off The Tokens: The Rise of BRC-20
One could claim this complaint is as old as cryptocurrency itself: Bitcoin’s leadership role hinges on its first…
RockX May Roundup: Hong Kong’s Crypto Acceptance Runway & More
May 2023: Crypto Moves Out of USA, New Compliant Blockchains Upcoming & Worldcoin Funding This month, the shift…
Why You Should Build on Aptos This 2023
With the increasing popularity of blockchain, the competition among layer 1s is becoming more intense. 2022 was actually…
RockX is Now Carbon Neutral: Why This Is Important
RockX is proud to have achieved carbon neutrality in partnership with Clima. Carbon neutrality is the state where…
Is Modern Finance Dying? How Crypto Fits into the Bigger Picture
In March 2023, we saw Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and Silvergate all collapsing following the bank…
The Ultimate Guide to ETH Staking With RockX
Staking is a popular way for cryptocurrency holders to participate in blockchain networks and earn rewards. Ever since…
Why is Arbitrum So Popular Among Developers?
Arbitrum – a suite of secure scaling solutions for Ethereum – has been developed by Offchain Labs, Inc.…
All Great on the Eastern Front: Crypto Moves to Asia
Just like matter, currency (including crypto) never disappears – it just moves around and evolves. And in the…
Memecoin Mania and its Influence on Ethereum
The second largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $222.88B ETH is currently trading at $1,852, down 2.7%…
What Happens When Crypto Derivatives Crash?
Despite the ongoing crypto winter, the cryptocurrency derivatives market continues to grow at a fast pace to become…
Modular VS Monolithic Blockchains: A Comparison
Most crypto users who are not familiar with the infrastructural part of blockchain development won’t even be aware…
RockX April Roundup: Post-Shapella, Crypto Regulation & AI
Needless to say, Ethereum’s Shapella Upgrade has been the talk of the month. On 12 April 2023, Ethereum…
Starter’s Guide to Crypto Derivatives
Crypto derivatives trading on centralised exchanges surged to more than US$3 trillion in July 2022. Market experts, analysts,…
Polygon’s zkEVM: The Turning Point for an Entire Industry
In a broader sense, the digital device and blockchain markets are not that dissimilar. Both didn’t exist just…
A Complete Analysis of Ethereum Post-Shapella Upgrade
It’s been a week since the much anticipated Shapella Upgrade, and we can finally take a look at…
What is the Sepolia Testnet Faucet?
Developers need environments to test their work. For example, Ethereum developers utilise networks as environments for development, testing,…
Virtual Machine Wars: Ethereum VS Fantom
It’s becoming the archetypal crypto narrative: <insert year> will be the year where <insert blockchain project> really takes…
The Race to zkEVM: The Next Frontier in Decentralised Computing
Blockchain – driven by its technological competitiveness and innovation potential – continues to gain traction. The 2023 numbers…
Shapella Upgrade and Beyond: Key Insights from ETH’s Upgrade Timeline
The upcoming Ethereum (ETH) Shapella Upgrade is a major milestone for the Ethereum blockchain network. This upgrade is…
Strategies for ETH Staking Ahead of the Shapella Upgrade
The Ethereum community is eagerly anticipating the upcoming Shapella upgrade, which will enable end-to-end unstaking flow for staked…
How RockX Has Been Future-Proofed for the Shapella Upgrade
As the crypto world eagerly awaits Ethereum’s Shapella upgrade on 12 April 2023, RockX is prepared to receive…
Introducing Bedrock: Unlocking Liquidity for Venture Capitalists
For venture capitalists (VCs), investing in the cryptocurrency market can be very rewarding, but it also comes with…
An Introduction to EigenLayer and Restaking
Restaking protocol developer, EigenLabs most recently raised $50 million in a Series A round led by Blockchain Capital…
Should Proof of Stake (PoS) Tokens be Considered Securities?
Proof-of-Stake (PoS) is a popular consensus mechanism many cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Cardano, and Polkadot use to validate transactions…
Introduction to RPC: A Fundamental Crypto Protocol
For any users of cryptocurrencies or blockchain-based services, the name RPC probably means very little, but it’s actually…
Introducing Bedrock Liquid Staking for Centralised Exchanges (CEXs)
The Bedrock liquid staking solution is an on-chain, non-custodial, and independent solution that complies with regulatory requirements so…
Tightening Crypto Regulations: What Does Decentralisation Mean Now?
The tightening of crypto regulations has left the blockchain industry in a quandary. Regulatory gaps have been identified,…
Best 3 Courses to Learn Web3 Development for Free
Often called the ‘Future of the Internet’, Web3 offers a read/write/own version of the web – which is…
Exploring Order Book DEXs: Why Polkadex and D5 Exchange Will Lead the Next Wave of Decentralised Trading
Decentralised Finance (DeFi) has been gaining popularity in recent years as an alternative to traditional financial systems. And…
A Technical Overview of Polygon’s zkEVM Mainnet
Polygon, a scaling project for Ethereum, has announced the upcoming launch of its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM)…
How to Get Up to $1000 in Credits on RockX’s Access Node Portal
To encourage more builders in the Web3 space, RockX has launched a new feature on its Access Node…
The Inadequacies of Liquid Staking For Institutions
We have previously touched upon it, but it never hurts to reiterate: liquid staking is presenting itself on…
The Need for Crypto: A Stable, Decentralised Currency
An ideal decentralised currency is one not controlled by any central authority or government and maintains a stable…
How to Use Bedrock: A Comprehensive Guide to Transparent Liquid Staking
RockX has launched Bedrock, the company’s proprietary liquid staking protocol. Bedrock boasts the latest, enterprise-grade security and meets…
Introducing Bedrock: Compliant & Secure Liquid Staking for Everyone
RockX is thrilled to announce Bedrock, their proprietary liquid staking protocol that aims to strike the perfect balance…
Why Liquid Staking on Ethereum Is So Attractive
Early November 2022 saw the market capitalisation of the crypto staking industry closing in on US$100 billion. Ethereum…
Why Liquid Staking Is A Game Changer for Financial Institutions
Institutions have long been interested in the potential economic upsides of staking protocols. Unlike mining, staking doesn’t require…
Optimism’s Superchain: The Next Level of L2 Wars
The L2 wars have begun. And Arbitrum and Optimism are the top two fighters. Out of these two,…