Rootstock is a Bitcoin sidechain and BTCFi layer that brings EVM-compatible smart contracts to Bitcoin. Rootstock's Twitter Score is 149 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #3,787 (top 1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Rootstock describes itself as Bitcoin's financial infrastructure, enabling developers to deploy Solidity smart contracts using standard EVM tools on a Bitcoin-secured network. The original RSK whitepaper, dated November 2015 and authored by Sergio Demian Lerner, laid out the vision for a Turing-complete smart contract platform operating as a Bitcoin sidechain. Rootstock says its network and PowPeg bridge have maintained 100% uptime since launching in 2018, and that the network is secured by over 80% of Bitcoin's hash power through merge mining.
Rootstock says its mining pool partners include Foundry, Luxor, AntPool, Binance and ViaBTC. The native token of the Rootstock blockchain is rBTC, pegged 1:1 to BTC and used for DeFi, gas fees and smart contracts. The RIF token, short for Rootstock Infrastructure Framework, drives incentives, infrastructure and interoperability within the ecosystem and is used to stake, swap and earn across DeFi protocols, as well as to participate in RootstockCollective governance. RootstockCollective, a decentralized DAO scaling Bitcoin via Rootstock, launched in September 2024 and secured $10 million in funding for its foundation treasury, per a Chainwire press release. Rootstock is affiliated with RootstockLabs, a longstanding contributor to the network's infrastructure, integrations and partner solutions.
Rootstock has published 9,738 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 357 accounts, with 1,325 total mentions. Rootstock has 246,457 followers as of August 2026.
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The accounts that follow Rootstock include 633 founders, 128 angel investors, 329 influencers and 20 VCs. Among them are Erik Voorhees, Solana, Laura Shin, Kyle Samani, Anthony Pompliano and David Sacks.