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Welcome to Fint3ch Frontrunners, a series of interviews with the leading lights in the future of finance. Learn how they got started and read where they see the world of DeFi, Web3 and crypto going next. Up this week is Dmitry Machikhin, Founder and CEO of BitOK, a portfolio tracker with tax and AML tools for crypto which recently added support for $RIF and the other tokens in the Rootstock ecosystem.

Data breaches impact ±400 million people each year as a consequence of attacks on centralized identity management authorities and intermediaries. Several decentralized applications have emerged recently to ensure better data protection and bring back data ownership to users.

This article is a part of IOV Labs’ series focused on helping newcomers to the world of Web3 understand the value of decentralized finance. Read on to explore the top 5 reasons more businesses are accepting cryptocurrency as a payment method, the best ways to implement this, and how to tackle the associated challenges.

The RIF Flyover protocol is now live — delivering a fast, secure, and fully decentralized pathway for Bitcoin users to enter the Rootstock ecosystem (and vice versa).

This article is part of IOV Labs research series that aims to help newcomers to the Web3 world navigate DeFi, explore its benefits, and understand its risks. Read on to learn how individuals and businesses are currently using DeFi, and what the future holds.

The digital world is on the cusp of a revolution with the advent of Decentralized Finance, web3, and crypto-based economies.

The traditional financial and banking services market, also known as centralized finance (CeFi), is one of the largest global industries in the world with a market size of ±$25B that is expected to reach ±$37B in 2025.

What does multisig mean? The term "multisig" stands for "multi-signature" and it's used to describe accounts associated with more than one private key. The account is created with a list of owners and a policy `m-out-of-n` when transactions are approved by at least m owners, they can be executed.

The Research and Innovation team led by Diego Masini held a webinar on 26th April 2021 to introduce the RIF Enveloping Project to the RSK community. The RIF Enveloping team comprises of: Diego Masini, Raul Laprida, Julian Len

On May 4th, RIF hosted an AMA with IOVLabs CEO Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar on its community Telegram channel in the first instalment of the RIF Community Benefits Campaign. You can join the RIF Community Telegram channel here: https://t.me/rif_os_community