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Rootstock Infrastructure Framework RIF
Rootstock Infrastructure Framework (RIF) was trading at $0.0706, ranked #342 by market cap at $70.56M, with 24h volume of $7.22M.
Data snapshot: 2026-09-02 12:15 UTC.
RIF is the infrastructure token of Rootstock, a sidechain that brings Ethereum-compatible smart contracts to Bitcoin and is secured by merge-mining with Bitcoin miners. RIF pays for services built on top — naming, storage, payment channels — so it sits one layer above the chain itself rather than acting as its gas token. RIF provides infrastructure services — naming, storage, payments — on Rootstock, a smart-contract sidechain secured by Bitcoin mining. That places it in a small category: applications built around Bitcoin's security rather than Ethereum's. The advantage is inheriting the most heavily secured chain; the disadvantage is a much smaller developer ecosystem than Ethereum's. On this map RIF is a small-cap infrastructure asset whose relevance depends on whether Bitcoin-based application development grows, which follows a different cycle from Ethereum DeFi.
What is Rootstock?
A smart-contract sidechain secured by Bitcoin mining, allowing contracts to be written in an environment anchored to Bitcoin rather than Ethereum.
What does RIF provide?
Infrastructure services on that platform, including naming, storage and payment components.
What is the trade-off of building on Bitcoin?
It inherits the most heavily secured chain, but the developer ecosystem and tooling are far smaller than Ethereum's.
Why does it move on a different cycle?
Its demand depends on Bitcoin-based application development, which has its own narrative cycle separate from Ethereum DeFi activity.
Market cap decides how big a bubble is drawn, so rank is what places RIF on the map relative to the rest of its sector.
| Rank | Coin | Market cap |
|---|---|---|
| #12 | Rain (RAIN) | $10.20B |
| #261 | Basic Attention (BAT) | $102.12M |
| #322 | Safe (SAFE) | $75.94M |
| #342 | Rootstock Infrastructure Framework (RIF) | $70.56M |
| #361 | Threshold Network (T) | $66.26M |