RGB becomes stable
It's been 5 month since the first alpha of RGB v0.10 - and today we are thrilled to make the stable release of the RGB command-line tool and runtime library for desktop and mobile integration.
The library was extensively tested by several independent teams…
With
#RGB
v0.11 release we add a massive support for the
@Liquid_BTC
: interoperability/native bridging with confidential assets and the ability for RGB smart contacts to run on both chains (Bitcoin and Liquid), if the issuer wants to.
#Liquid
network is a solution to the…
The BTC bridged to the
#LiquidNetwork
has hit another all-time high, surpassing 4,000 BTC in the last few days, and is fast approaching the current Lightning capacity of approximately 4,900 BTC.
#Bitcoin
's second layers are growing and hyperbitcoinization is nigh!
We are working on an upgrade proposal for the
#Nostr
named
#reNostr
- which should be like SegWit for
#Bitcoin
back in the days.
This upgrade will spawn multiple NIPs and address binary encoding, networking, transport encryption, DoS protection.
It will bring
#RGB
to Nostr.
#War
can break upstream internet link, but local inhabitants will still have intranet. I.e. while
#bitcoin
tx will be impossible to transfer, existing lightning channels will remain operational! Bitcoin network does not tolerate splits, but
#LightningNetwork
does!
How
#Storm
⛈️ differs from
#Nost
🦩?
Several years ago
@lnp_bp
presented Storm protocol suite for decentralized storage and messaging. It operates on top of
#LightningNetwork
⚡️ and provides a way of setting up long-term trustless storage channels, as well as an API for…
We created of a dedicated fund for support of
#Ukraine
#internet
, mobile and
#mesh
network infrastructure; development of alternative
#bitcoin
- &
#lightning
-based payment and messaging methods
Donations in BTC: bc1qflh4hlc6z6ke25ksv4g8t9gac740xsv6zvprr33cqxvv3l703xksmfnl2j
🔥
#RGB
v0.10 is fully released now🔥, marking one of the most important and huge milestones in RGB development. It includes:
- consensus layer changes
- standard library updates (for integration with wallets/exchanges)
- command-line tool
To learn more on the updates read the…
For the first time our LNP Node (rust re-implementation from scratch) connected external c-lightning node and did successful communications. Full interoperability with
#lightning
mainnet (with channel operations) will be completed during next week.
#RGB
scalability is mind blowing:
A single
#Bitcoin
UTXO may comtain assets from 100k different contracts - and all of them may be transferred in one tx. For 200 outputs - 2m contracts (!)
Ethereum has ~2m contracts; all their state evolution can fit in single RGB bitcoin tx.
Over the last 3 years we brought
#RGB
smart contracts, rust
#Taproot
🥕 implementation, new rust
#LightningNetwork
node and multiple protocol enhancements - all as partially self-funded non-profit.
Today we need your support to further advance
#Bitcoin
:
Bitcoin universal computing with L2 client-side validation using AluVM and RGB assembly - and no onchain footprint, fees, softfork or other issues like in all these L1 controversial proposals.
The power of client-side validation which comes with
@RGB
v0.11
No idea who did this, but it was definitely made out of love for our tech stack ❤️💚💙
As a non-profit, we are relying on community support. If you want to help us build a better future for
#Bitcoin
and
#Lightning
feel free to throw some sats at our donation address.
For more…
Welcome
#SSI
: self-sovereign identities made with
#Bitcoin
single-use seals, a joint effort of us together with
@cyphernet_io
, with a funding support from
@radworks_
through
@radicle
ssi:LZS1ux-gjD9nXPF-OcetUUkW-6r3uSCS6-aQhs9W5f-8JE7w
This SSI will be used by us for signing…
#Rust
🦀
#bitcoin
with full
#Taproot
🥕 support got released!
Happy that our focused work for more than a year had contributed to this implementation. The release unlocks the way for a lot of our libraries and
#RGB
🌈 build on top. Stay tuned!
#RGB
works with
#Ark
seamlessly and no changes are needed for either of the protocols to work together.
The main way how RGB benefits from Ark: now non-fungible state can operate in L2 (which was not possible with LN routing).
Glad to welcome
@BitlightLabs
as a new member of LNP/BP Association!
BitLight Labs position themselves as infrastructure builder with
#RGB
and
#Lightning
technologies. We believe their contributions will help to improve RGB and make the technology more developer & user-friendly.
Bitcoin miners can censor transactions - that is well known fact.
What prevents global censorship? The requirement that before there is a miner controlling 50%+ hashrate there is a way to bribe a minor miner not to censor your transaction, and censorship at individual miner…
We have discovered a new single-use seal primitive, which does not require a user to own a UTXO or do a dedicated transaction for closing that seal. Working on specification.
2024 will be the year of
#RGB
🌈
🚀❤️💚💙🚀
If you want to support
#RGB
development you can always do it by donating to the cause via
#LightningNetwork
or
#Bitcoin
using the QR codes below.
If you are interested in becoming a member of the Association you can read more about…
⚡️Glad to announce that RGB v0.10 is almost fully released! We are finishing he code polishing and will be glad to demonstrate how it works in the command-line wallet during our dev call this upcoming week. ⚡️
Save the date and time and join us!
🗓 Tuesday, April 11th
🕓 6:00 pm…
Doing
#RGB
required decentralized transfer of client-side data. We used
#LightningNetwork
for that. As a byproduct we got
#Storm
: decentralized end-to-end encrypted storage & messaging over LN. Tokenless. Suitable for anonymous chats. Better than Torrent, IPFS, Signal etc.
We are focusing on completing
#RGB
v0.11 release with a lot of new exciting features: much simplified wallet integration, Luiqid support, improved scripting, rich contract interfaces etc.
At the moment the new version undergoes heavy testing and internal audit, it is planned for…
Our 2021 accomplishment list retweeted.
In
#2022
we will work hard to deliver:
-
#RGB
final - and singular release
-
#Bifrost
: next gen
#LightningNetwork
with Taproot/Schnorr, RGB & many more
-
#DEX
& algo-stable coins on
#LN
-
#Storm
: decentralized storage & messaging on LN
#Ark
,
#Lightning
,
#eltoo
- or “50 shades of state channels” made with transaction constraints.
Ark construction is a form of a state channel. Unlike Lightning channels, it:
- doesn’t require atomic coordination across multiple channels - meaning no multi-hop payments, routing…
⚡️Introducing RGB Core library v0.10 Beta! ⚡️
Aside from the total eduction of the codebase, the most important part of this release is implementation of 👏consensus-breaking changes👏
If you want to start building your project on
#RGB
- it's time!
#UnderstandingRGB
#RGB
❤️💚💙 is scalable & confidential smart contracts, done as a layer on top of
#Bitcoin
. They work with
#Lightning
⚡️, have own VM (called AluVM), but rely on bitcoin blockchain for control of ownership & double-spend prevention
LNP/BP Standards Association is happy to announce the fifth beta release of
#RGB
protocol version 0.11
This is another milestone on the stabilization of the new v0.11 RGB version. It is the first complete beta release of both consensus-level libraries, standard libraries and…
The crown jewel of LNP/BP tech will become revealed at
@TheBitcoinConf
this year and it is named
#Radiant
: cryptoeconomically-secure trustless pegouts without a softfork. Let’s make BIP300 obsolete!
I have developed concept of
#Prometheus
to be applicable for the trustless peg-outs in Bitcoin not requiring any soft-fork - and it is named
#Radiant
. This is a peg-out through a state channel which allow game-theoretic security (Nash equilibrium) without relying on trust to a…
Over the last 3 years we brought
#RGB
smart contracts, rust
#Taproot
🥕 implementation, new rust
#LightningNetwork
node and multiple protocol enhancements - all as partially self-funded non-profit.
Today we need your support to further advance
#Bitcoin
:
Introducing
#reNostr
: the effort to built faster, more secure & scalable
#nostr
upgrade.
reNostr for Nostr is like SegWit for
#Bitcoin
Join the work, which will be managed by
@cyphernet_io
- Swiss non-profit we are establishing with partners
🥳
#RGB
v0.10 release. Part III is up!🔥
On March 22nd we held a regular dev call, where
@dr_orlovsky
described and discussed the following topics:
1. Presentation of RGB v0.10 Wallet library & overall RGB v0.10 release progress
2. New invoices format. Working with PSBT.
3.…
On the verge of
#RGB
release v0.10 marking a milestone in putting smart contracts to live, we are glad to launch beta-version of the official RGB website
Big step for
#RGB
and a huge step for
#Bitcoin
!
With this release RGB is one step closer to protocol ossification, meaning that while minor bug fixes will be present, nothing (hopefully) radical will be ever changed on the consensus-level.
So what's changed? 👇🧵1/4
⚡️Introducing RGB Core library v0.10 Beta! ⚡️
Aside from the total eduction of the codebase, the most important part of this release is implementation of 👏consensus-breaking changes👏
If you want to start building your project on
#RGB
- it's time!
Welcoming
#Taproot
activation with Bitcoin Core 0.21.1! Grab specially flavored docker container with `docker pull lnpbp/bitcoind:0.21.1` and start tracking the activation progress!
* container is made by LNP/BP Association using fork reverting SJW-driven BLACK_LIST renaming
Resources you can use to read up on
#Prime
- the blockchain-less L1 solution for scaling and anonymising
#Bitcoin
:
1. MD file in the LNP/BP Association repo
2. Bitcoin dev mailing list email sent by
@dr_orlovsky
3. Maxim Orlovsky’s…
We are happy to welcome
@__yanganto__
- the new LNP/BP Standards Association developer and
#RGB
maintainer, who has joined us with the support and help coming from
@BitlightLabs
!
@dr_ukolova
is going to present
#Radiant
- a trustless peg system for
#Bitcoin
ecosystem that doesn’t require any soft/hard forks or trust to any sort of federations at one and only
@TheBitcoinConf
in a few minutes.
If you are in Amsterdam- make sure to stop by!
#UnderstandingBifrost
🧵
1/5
#LightningNetwork
was created around a fixed channel transaction structure, leading to the absence of simple extensibility & fast experimentation.
Due to that & poorly defined specs,
#BUIDLing
on LN has become hard, risky & sometimes - impossible.
This end-to-end encrypted P2P chat allowing sending large attachments via torrent-like file exchange is our contribution to the safety of people in
#Ukraine
and in other war regions. Keeping communications there decentralized and private literally means saving lives.
For the first time two
#Storm
nodes chat with each other over
#Bifrost
run by
#LNP
Nodes. End-to-end-encrypted chat!
PS Bifrost is an upgraded
#LightningNetwork
with
#Taproot
, larger messages (up to 16MB),
#RGB
and other layer 3 apps like this chatting app.
Join the Association today and support
#RGB
.
Membership fees allow us to continue ongoing efforts on RGB core development, building dev toolchains and APIs, writing on documentation, performing education.
Help to keep
#RGB
independent and growing!
Glad to welcome
@BitlightLabs
as a new member of LNP/BP Association!
BitLight Labs position themselves as infrastructure builder with
#RGB
and
#Lightning
technologies. We believe their contributions will help to improve RGB and make the technology more developer & user-friendly.
There are very few non-profits supporting
#Bitcoin
tech over years, no matter the hype and market conditions. Even fewer do not require devs to follow their undercover agenda. We’d like to name
@FulgurVentures
and
@hojofoundation
among these very few: they made
#RGB
possible.
There is a scam - RGB++ and
@crypcipher
- claiming false statements to investors (scamming them), and also trying to scam the community. Be aware: it has nothing to do neither with the
#RGB
protocol, the team behind it, or
@lnp_bp
and
@bitfinex
/Tether.
There is a good answer to…
Recordings of our dev call from the 9th of March are up! 🔥
During the call
@dr_orlovsky
presented the updated 🔥 RGB Standards library v0.10 release🌈 and covered the following topics:
1. Overview of all new features coming in RGB v0.10.
2. Anatomy of RGB smart contracts
3.…
We did it! A good present for everybody right on the Winter solstice.
One of our main products moves closer to the full
#BOLT
spec compatibility, opening way for the future steps with
#LightningNetwork
:
#RGB
,
#Bifrost
,
#Taproot
and much more.
The first
#LightnintNetwork
⚡️ channel from LNP Node (a new LN node written in Rust🦀 from scratch at
@lnp_bp
)
– to a remote c-Lightning; on
#Bitcoin
mainnet, from today’s demo.
Without inspirations & ideas from you guys,
@Snyke
@renepickhardt
, it wont be possible!
Fun fact. 🤓
We don't only create
#RGB
and L2/L3 stuff, we also have been building
#Bitcoin
L1 libraries. One of them -
#descriptor
wallet library was integrated into
@mycitadel_io
back in the day making it the first wallet which could set up dynamic time lock multisigs and…
While many were asking tor a simple wallet, we bet on the professional
#Bitcoin
use cases and were the first ones to introduce dynamic time lock multisigs using
@lnp_bp
descriptor wallet library.
The market needs professional and complex (but easy to use)
#Bitcoin
products, the…
@dr_orlovsky
is giving a talk on
#Prime
dueing
@PowSummit
in Prague.
What is Prime? It’s the L1 solution for
#Bitcoin
that substituted blockchain with client-side validation and brings privacy and scalability to the ecosystem.
To learn more check out this proposal…
This Wednesday we will have a HUGE ⚡️ devcall.
1/2👇
Agenda:
1. 1. Release of all our nodes (BP Node, RGB Node, LNP Node, Storm Node).
2. Explanations of what are Storm and Bifrost.
3. Explanation of how RGB and the above mentioned Storm and Bifrost can be used for BiFi.
Status update: we are completing (debugging) integration of all three nodes (LNP, RGB, Storm) together required to get
#RGB
working over Lightning. Expect to release these three nodes by this Wednesday and present on our usual dev call.
A nice article explaining
#RGB
in simple words from community member and new contributor
@negrunch
Thank you very much!
BTW, his work is supported by
@FulgurVentures
🔥RGB Node and RGB Core Library v0.4 are out🔥
The releases bring more stability to the protocol implementation and important enhancements in asset transfers, including:
1/8
Jump in 10 mins to YouTube stream of
#BH2023
Blatic Honeybadger where
@dr_orlovsky
will present the latest developments of
#Prime
- the newly proposed alternative non-blockchain layer 1 for
#Bitcoin
We are working on powering the
#DEX
infrastructure (we are designig using
#RGB
&
#Lightning
) with combined
#Storm
and
#nostr
as data layers for creating real-time low-latency data feeds.
What is
#Storm
? It is the foundation for
#BiFi
like
#DEX
, algorithmic stablecoina etc.
#RGB
doesn’t have the global state, but it can do everything Ethereum can - and more - due to
#Bifrost
and
#Storm
protocols (which are now parts of Lightning network). 🧵
@bradmillscan
@bitcoinbeezy
@BitMask_App
@trydiba
let’s imagine we have a set of sovereign agents - whatever nature they may have (Knights of the Round Table, aliens, future AGI entities etc).
Now, if they have conflicts (and they will) what do they need not to get into troubles like humanity and start relying on centralized…
SLP501
@dr_orlovsky
RGB Walkthrough
We chat:
- RGB's history & ecosystem
- What it enables
- Client side validation
-
@mycitadel_io
wallet
- what's next for RGB
LNP Node supports “next generation” LN called
#Bifrost
, which includes taproot, RGB assets, multipeer channels & factories, DLCs. However “legacy LN” interoperability is still of high importance and the same LNP Node will be usable as any other LN node even before Bifrost.
Our next dev call on the 17th of Nov will be devoted to
#Bitcoin
single-use-seals and client-side validation advancements caused by
#Taproot
and
#Bifrost
/Lightning network aspects.
The next interation of our nodes (LNP, RGB, BP, Storm) will be switching from ZMQ to nonblocking stack from
@cyphernet_io
using their Noise implementation. Give them a follow and support if you are building privacy-focused software.
For all privacy guys & cypherpunks: follow
@cyphernet_io
- our non-profit building privacy tech libraries and software.
It already did a new rust lightweight full implementation for Noise framework, a nonblocking microservice lib using composable support for mixnets (Tor, NYM,…
We were inquired multiple times whether
@BiHelix_
project is a member of
@lnp_bp
Association. Here we officially inform all interested parties that
@BiHelix_
is not (and never) were the Association member, never provided any funds on the core RGB development and never contributed…
A video of
@dr_orlovsky
talk on
#Prime
from the
@PowSummit
last week in Prague giving more details on how this proposed new
#Bitcoin
layer 1 works and its pegging to Bitcoin PoW without merge-mining and BIP-300,301
Recordings of our dev call from April 11th are out!
The call was devoted to the demonstration of 🔥RGB v0.10: installing, issuing RGB assets, making a transfer and more.
Agenda:
1. RGB v0.10 release progress.
2. Introducing '$ rgb' command.
3. Demo: how to install RGB.
4. What…
#RGB
is so much more than tokens.
Grab a coffee and listen to
@dr_orlovsky
talking about RGB Digital
#Identity
, Naming and Reputation.
📽️ YouTube
📜 Slides
To keep operating we are looking for funding for the next year. Previously we were supported privately, but due to the bear market thinking about public fundraise this time - which will make sense only if there is an interest from the community. Checking that with this poll:
The power of descriptor wallet library created by us last year is so strong that
#Bitcoin
mainnet uses it for debugging its miniscript multisig-and-timelock capabilities.
(Chuck Norris-style joke - but each joke has a grain of truth)
For those interested in testing new miniscript support in
@BitBoxSwiss
&
@Ledger
:
See the github issue & screenshots on how crazy wallets with timelocks may look like.
PS. We always code & debug on mainnet, with real funds. That is the way.
We are hiring! 🤓
You know C and how Bitcoin/Lightning work?
Want to stack sats and create something huge?
Don't miss your chance to work with
@dr_orlovsky
on c-Lightning fork of
#RGB
!
Drop
@OlUkolova
a line and join our toxic but cozy team 😉
Details 👉
For all those interested in trying out
#RGB
🌈. Please keep in mind that all existing GUIs are not yet updated to the latest RGB v0.10 release, which comes with the most interesting stuff. The only way to experience it today is cli:
GUI-based wallets made…
Our next dev call on the 17th of Nov will be devoted to
#Bitcoin
single-use-seals and client-side validation advancements caused by
#Taproot
and
#Bifrost
/Lightning network aspects.
I’m frustrated by centralized control of DNS for decades & it’s only getting worse! 🤬“Either by design, or unintentionally, they’ve proposed allowing any government in the world to cancel, redirect, or transfer to their control applicable domain names!”
#RGB
still remains a mystery to many due to its complexity. We started to break thing down into smaller pieces to make it easier to digest the whole RGB pie.
#RGBbasics
is here to help!
Feedback is appreciated! 🙌
#Bitcoin
#RGBasics
❤️💚💙🤓
Understanding of any technology starts with learning the basic terminology.
Here you can find the Part I of
#RGB
#glossary
, where basic terms are being described and explained.
Today on the
#LnpBp
dev call we'll present our
#LNPNode
(
#LightningNetwork
node written in
#Rust
🦀): interoperability with LN, connection to c-lightning and technical deep dive are on the agenda.
Join us in 7 hours!
🗓️ Wednesday, December 15th
🕔5pm CET
🔗
With
#Bitcoin
#Taproot
🥕 activated we are focused on its full support in rust-bitcoin (foundation library for next-gen robust bitcoin apps & layers), rust-miniscript, descriptor-wallet, and, finally,
#Bifrost
-
#LightningNetwork
upgrade working on Taproot & Miniscript from day 1