Rootstock and Stacks Compared as Bitcoin DeFi Platforms
A new report compares Rootstock and Stacks as Bitcoin DeFi platforms, covering their peg designs, security models, yield mechanisms, and history, while noting newer BitVM-based designs pursuing more trust-minimized pegs.
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Stacks vs Rootstock: Bitcoin's Oldest DeFi Bet in 2026
Two years before Ethereum shipped its first optimistic rollup, and long before anyone talked seriously about running stablecoins on Bitcoin rails, two teams set out to answer the same awkward question: can the most valuable, most conservative blockchain do anything other than sit still? Rootstock went live on 2 January 2018 as a smart-contract sidechain merge-mined by Bitcoin's own miners, according to research from Spark.