Whitepaper Reading Club: Rootstock and BitVMX
November 18th - Whitepaper Reading 📝
As part of BTCFi Day, the White Paper Reading Club will host a session covering 2 white papers that helped establish Rootstock as the de facto DeFi Layer for Bitcoin.
1. The OG Rootstock Whitepaper (2015)
Launched in 2015, RSK brought smart contracts to Bitcoin with merge-mined sidechain using a federated 2-way peg and EVM compatibility. It pioneered faster, scalable Bitcoin computation—laying the groundwork for today’s push to make Bitcoin fully programmable.
2. The BitVMX Whitepaper (2024)
BitVMX lets programs run off-chain and be verified on Bitcoin through simple hash-based challenges—bringing smart-contract functionality to Bitcoin without changing its consensus or adding new opcodes.
Sergio Demian Lerner
Got questions afterward? Ask them directly to one of it Rootstock’s creators and a co author of the BitVMX whitepaper, Sergio Demian Lerner! This event takes place the day before the 10th birthday of the Rootstock whitepaper.
Be part of a historical moment as Bitcoin's DeFi layer enters its next decade of innovation.
Format
Facilitated round table discussions with Sergio Demain Lerner, designer of Rootstock and whitepaper coauthor
15:30 - 16:30 Rootstock Whitepaper
16:45 - 17:45 BitVMX Whitepaper
Summaries: WPRC provide summaries of both whitepapers to help everyone understand and engage
Snacks + Drinks
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PROGRAM
15:30 - 16:30
Group reading of Rootstock Whitepaper
16:45 - 17:45
Group reading of BitVMX Whitepaper
Facilitated roundtable discussion
Wrap with open Q&A with Sergio Lerner
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Format
Round table discussions with the Authors (No Panels)
Summaries: We create summaries to help everyone understand.
LightFood + Drinks
About Whitepaper Reading Club
The Whitepaper Reading Club is a community of 600 passionate engineers, founders, core-devs, students, researchers, in Singapore, Malaysia and Bangkok and New York who come together every month to read and discuss blockchain papers https://wprc.club/en/about.
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Summaries
We create detailed and easy to understand summaries for each paper (summaries) and have held 50+ sessions since June 2023, covering topics from Account Abstraction, Parallel Chains, EIPs, Bitcoin Ecosystem to AIXCrypto. We are ecosystem-agnostic, not for profit and with a strong focus on projects with technical, product or social innovations.
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