Fundamentals
There's a question lurking underneath a lot of blockchain engineering that sounds almost too simple to be worth asking: when a transaction lands on a chain, how long until you can be sure it's never coming back off? Not "probably safe" but truly, irreversibly
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Season 5 is wrapping up. Our 3-month staking pool expires at block 5,649,633 (around 3 PM UTC on June 10th), and with it, we're opening the door to Season 6.
Fundamentals
Something interesting happened in late February 2026. The Ethereum Foundation published a document that, if you squint at it from the right angle, reads like a roadmap toward the kind of consensus design that Cosmos ecosystem chains have been running for years. The document is called the "strawmap"
Fiet is integrating with Reactive Network to automate one of the hardest problems in DeFi for everyday traders: guaranteeing liquidity is settled promptly without sacrificing user experience. By deploying Reactive Contracts (RCs), Fiet will remove the need for traders to manually claim funds when liquidity that was temporarily unavailable, becomes
We recently took a look back at some of the utility introduced to Reactive Network so far in 2025, now it's time to look ahead. By 2026, Reactive Contracts are no longer an experiment. They are part of the baseline expectations for how on-chain systems behave. Contracts that
Reactive Network began with a simple observation: most smart contracts spend their lives waiting. They wait for users, bots, or keepers to notice something has changed and to push them into action. Reactive Contracts invert that relationship. They remain alert, notice changes on-chain as they happen, and respond automatically. In
Blockchain is reaching a tipping point. After years of experimentation, the first signs of institutional-grade infrastructure are beginning to emerge. Two markets stand out as the drivers of this shift: tokenized real-world assets (RWA) and decentralized finance (DeFi). The challenge, however, is no longer raw throughput. The bottleneck is coordination.
Somewhere beneath the surface of over a hundred blockchain networks, from Cosmos Hub to Osmosis to Celestia, there's a consensus engine quietly doing the heavy lifting. It's called CometBFT, and unless you've spent time wandering the Cosmos ecosystem, you've probably never encountered
Today, May 25th, we're rolling out the Omni fork for Reactive Lasna. The first testnet built on Reactive Network's new CometBFT-based architecture is live and ready for developers to start building, testing, and experimenting with the changes we've been working toward over the past
Reactive Network is getting a new engine. We're calling this the Omni fork. The consensus layer, the developer experience, and the way reactive contracts work are all being rebuilt. This document covers the technical specifics: what's changing, what stays the same, and what it means if
We spent 2025 building, shipping, and watching a growing cohort of developers push the network forward, stress testing its functionality. As we close out this inaugural year, we've taken stock: what's working, what needs improvement, and where this goes from here. This roadmap is a story
In DeFi Hack Postmortem Part 1, we looked at how Reactive Contracts address the root cause of bridge exploits: the gap between what a validator claims has happened and what actually has happened on-chain. That's the prevention side: stopping the hack before it starts. But prevention only works
On April 18th, 2026, someone sent a fake message to a cross-chain bridge and walked away with $293 million. The target was Kelp DAO, a liquid restaking protocol on Ethereum. The bridge connecting it to other blockchains was configured with a single validator, one computer responsible for confirming whether incoming
Liquidation feels like a shock to many users. Positions weaken gradually: health factor drops, buffers thin, and prices move against you. Then one transaction closes everything. Soft liquidation addresses that gap. Instead of enforcing at a single threshold, it responds to early warning signals and adjusts while the position can
In Intent-Centric Protocols: A Simpler Way to Use Blockchains, we looked at how intent-centric protocols are changing the way people interact with blockchains. Instead of specifying every step of a transaction, you describe the outcome you want and let a network of solvers compete to deliver it. It's
If you've ever tried to swap one cryptocurrency for another, you know the feeling. A screen full of options you didn't ask for: gas fees, slippage tolerance, liquidity routes. Each one seems like a small decision that could cost you money if you get it wrong.
As season four of REACT staking draws to a close with the expiration of our 90 day staking pool we're announcing staking season five! Season five will operate in the same way as season four with a 30, 60 and 90 day pool available to REACT stakers. How
DIA price oracles will be integrated with Reactive Network on March 2, 2026. The integration introduces an on-chain price feed for REACT/USD, available on Base Mainnet and accessible to Reactive Contracts and other smart contracts. This integration provides a publicly accessible price reference for REACT that can be used
For many users, liquidation doesn’t feel like a design flaw. It feels like a shock. A position rarely collapses out of nowhere. It weakens first. Health factor drops. Buffers thin out. Prices move against you. Then one transaction closes everything. That disconnect or sudden enforcement is what soft liquidation
