Iris Wallet Desktop: First Graphical Interface for RGB Protocol on Bitcoin Lightning
Until January 2025, using RGB Protocol on Bitcoin as an end user required comfort with command-line tools and developer-grade software. Iris Wallet Desktop changed the situation.
Developed by the RGB-protocol team, Iris Wallet Desktop is the first graphical interface for receiving, sending, and managing RGB assets on Bitcoin and Lightning Network. It runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux, connects to the RGB Lightning Node, and makes it possible, for the first time, to hold and transfer tokens issued on RGB Protocol on Bitcoin v0.11.1 without writing a single command.
For the ecosystem, the launch marked a transition point: RGB moved from developer-only infrastructure to something an end user could actually interact with. That shift is a prerequisite for adoption at any meaningful scale.
Iris Wallet Desktop is open source and it’s based on rgb-lib (the library), rgb-lightning-node (the Lightning integration layer), and rgb-proxy-server (the consignment transport protocol).
