"The point isn’t that Union Bridge is invulnerable," says @SDLerner.
"It’s that the attacks that have historically destroyed bridges, the majority trust failures, are no longer on the table."
Union Bridge is now live on Rootstock Testnet: https://t.co/BX3wbolvAz
Don't trust, verify.
been tinkering with my Hermes agent this weekend, researching, building stuff, experimenting whats possible mainly. thank you @NousResearch for unlocking this new obsession. im now trying out a skill I created with the agent called forgemaster (basically allows hermes to train/fine tune specialized local slm's for niche uses where data is sensible enough that it needs to be locally stored)
This is what Bitcoin-secured finance is getting built on.
833.92 EH/s. The monthly average hashing power securing Rootstock in Q1 2026.
More: https://t.co/2cgxmbn66c
That's 84% of all Bitcoin mining power, pointed at a smart contract platform.
Merge mining means Bitcoin miners secure Rootstock as a byproduct of mining $BTC. No tradeoff.
'The project arrives as bridges remain one of crypto's weakest security points.'
If you missed it, Union Bridge is now live on Rootstock Testnet (https://t.co/2XxKWgRzpO)
Helpful thread from @sandmark_news 👇
BIG: Union Bridge is now live on Rootstock Testnet.
Built on @bitvmx, it replaces trusted intermediaries with cryptographic enforcement. Withdrawals verified and challenged directly on Bitcoin. No fixed signers. No committees.
"The point isn't that Union Bridge is invulnerable. It's that the attacks that have historically destroyed bridges, the majority trust failures, are no longer on the table," says @SDLerner, Co-founder and Scientific Advisor, @RootstockLabs.
This is an early, experimental release focused on validating core bridge flows and usability.
Access Union Bridge on Testnet via Atlas: https://t.co/BX3wbolvAz
Yesterday I paid the nursing home for my mother:
1,340,000 pesos 🇦🇷 (~ $957 / 1.14M sats)
Thank you for your help!🫂💜 I really appreciate every satoshi because it really help us 🙏 (1 sat =1 peso)
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#zapathon#donations#fundraising#bitcoin#geyser
In case you missed it last week:
For the first time in Bitcoin and Rootstock history, miners can control their own merge-mining commitments and receive rBTC rewards directly to their own address.
🔗https://t.co/WfsWRZHbdy
No pool intermediary. Miners own the template. Miners get paid.
"The miner controls the merge mining and the miner gets paid for the merge mining," says @bitentrepreneur, CEO and and Co-Founder at @DMND_Sv2.
@MatiasScalbi Lo que hice fue compartirle el post de llm wiki de Karpathy a mi hermes agent. le pedi que arme un vault con la estructura ideal en base a lo de karpathy. Actualmente uso 2 agentes, uno en un linux server otro en una macbook. el vault en un repo de gh para compartir conocimiento.
Rootstock enables the smart contract functionality necessary for programmable financial operations, secured by over 80 percent of Bitcoin's hash power.
First in bitcoin:native and Rootstock history.
@DMND_Sv2, the world's first Stratum V2 mining pool, combines miner-built templates with direct rBTC rewards from merge mining Rootstock.
Build your own block templates and receive merge mining rewards straight to your address.
https://t.co/81wITkCkp7 via @BitcoinMagazine
He designed Rootstock. He also helped strengthen the security of the Bitcoin protocol itself.
So who inspires Sergio Lerner?👀
Quickfire round with @SDLerner, Co-founder and Scientific Advisor, @RootstockLabs.
Rootstock in 2030. Quantum computing. And that answer👇
🚨 Important 🚨
Token Bridge (Ethereum ↔ Rootstock) is sunsetting
If you're still holding assets there, don't wait. Remove your liquidity now.
🔗 https://t.co/NmCQYODvsa
@StargateFinance is the recommended route going forward.
Details in the comments.