# Stateless clients, sidechains and Sharding **URL:** https://research.rsk.dev/c/stateless-clients-sidechains-and-sharding/10.md [Latest](https://research.rsk.dev/latest.md) · [Categories](https://research.rsk.dev/categories.md) --- ## [About the Stateless clients, sidechains and Sharding category](https://research.rsk.dev/t/about-the-stateless-clients-sidechains-and-sharding-category/29)
**Author:** [@SergioDemianLerner](https://research.rsk.dev/u/SergioDemianLerner)\ **Replies:** 0
This category is for the discussion of proposals, designs and pitfalls that aim to facilitate the deployment of sharding over RSK. Topics such as stateless clients, random bacons and RSK sidechains are also welcomed in t… --- ## [Bitcion node's network partitioning resilience](https://research.rsk.dev/t/bitcion-nodes-network-partitioning-resilience/554)
**Author:** [@Nuh](https://research.rsk.dev/u/Nuh)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://research.rsk.dev/t/bitcion-nodes-network-partitioning-resilience/554 "2026-10-20T17:38:31Z")
While I was working on an implementation of Rootstock node for edge devices, based on the Ephemeral Sidechains design, I realized that I need to first find bitcoin tail that I can trust to be final and practically imposs… --- ## [Ephemeral Sidechains](https://research.rsk.dev/t/ephemeral-sidechains/536)
**Author:** [@Nuh](https://research.rsk.dev/u/Nuh)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://research.rsk.dev/t/ephemeral-sidechains/536 "2026-10-15T14:12:54Z")
Ephemeral Sidechains: pruning headers, not just bodies, by anchoring the checkpoint to Bitcoin (Follow-up to a previous discussion with @SergioDemianLerner about RSKIP215.) TL;DR. RSKIP215 (Ephemeral Blockchain) removes… --- ## [Superchain in deprecated Armadillo bytes](https://research.rsk.dev/t/superchain-in-deprecated-armadillo-bytes/553)
**Author:** [@Nuh](https://research.rsk.dev/u/Nuh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://research.rsk.dev/t/superchain-in-deprecated-armadillo-bytes/553 "2026-10-10T12:26:24Z")
If FACON is going to be deployed and deprecate 12 bytes used currently by Armadillo, shouldn’t Rootstock use these fields for the Super parents and uncles instead of doing them inside RSK headers? struct SuperHeader { … --- ## [What are the best practices to be Stateless Client friendly?](https://research.rsk.dev/t/what-are-the-best-practices-to-be-stateless-client-friendly/521)
**Author:** [@Nuh](https://research.rsk.dev/u/Nuh)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://research.rsk.dev/t/what-are-the-best-practices-to-be-stateless-client-friendly/521 "2026-09-23T14:47:24Z")
Hello Rootstock folks, I am exploring Rootstock to build a permissionless censorship resistant identity system, that differs from RNS in that it doesn’t allow users to select their own names preventing name squatting an… --- ## [Possible to build an RSK drivechain?](https://research.rsk.dev/t/possible-to-build-an-rsk-drivechain/106)
**Author:** [@light](https://research.rsk.dev/u/light)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://research.rsk.dev/t/possible-to-build-an-rsk-drivechain/106 "2026-04-19T17:20:00Z")
Would it be possible to build a drivechain that is blind merge-mined with RSK, either with the existing protocol or a modified version of it? Since it could be a while until the Drivechain BIPs are activated on bitcoin … --- ## [Stateless RSK clients](https://research.rsk.dev/t/stateless-rsk-clients/23)
**Author:** [@SergioDemianLerner](https://research.rsk.dev/u/SergioDemianLerner)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://research.rsk.dev/t/stateless-rsk-clients/23 "2020-09-16T14:06:16Z")
Hi! I published a new RSKIP173 “Chunk-Based Code Merkleization using the Unitrie” based on Ethereum’s EIP-2926. The objetive is to allow stateless clients, and eventually also sharding over RSK. This is a very promisi…