Every Bitcoin transaction is public, so anyone can open a block explorer and read the amounts and the addresses of every payment. In contrast, privacy in RGB Protocol on Bitcoin follows a different logic: the details of an asset transfer are retained by the parties of the transfer. For this reason, the article follows a…
At BTCHEL 2026, The Nordic Bitcoin Conference in Helsinki, Birkan Kayadibi, COO of RGB Protocol Association, gave a talk with a simple question as its title: “What can you actually issue on Bitcoin?” The whole talk was based one thesis: the dollar left Bitcoin for engineering reasons, but they now belong to the past. In…
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin keeps an asset’s full history off-chain: the chain only ever carries a small cryptographic commitment inside an ordinary transaction. RGB on Liquid applies the same model to Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain, anchoring RGB assets on Liquid transactions instead of Bitcoin ones. KaleidoSwap tested the portability of this system, and then used Liquid’s…
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin has been the subject of a lot of confusion since the 2025 split between the production v0.11.1 line and the unfinished v0.12 proposal. If not clarified, it can cost a developer real time if it leads them to the wrong version, the wrong site, or the wrong assumptions about what’s actually…
RGB Hub recorded this conversation on an X Space on September 2, 2026, launching a new explainer series for people with no technical background. The guest was Ron (Shuning Hong), Chief Scientist at BiHelix and one of the earliest people to write about RGB Protocol on Bitcoin in Chinese. The topic was client-side validation itself…
RGB Lightning support in Tether’s WDK is now live. This piece follows up by describing the technical part behind it: how Utexo packaged RGB Lightning as a WDK module, what the module exposes, and what its early-beta status actually means in practice. In Brief Why Does RGB Lightning Need Its Own Native Layer Inside WDK?…
This clip is from an interview with Stefano Pellegrini, a developer on the RGB Protocol Team, recorded at the Tuscany Lightning Summit 2025 in Viareggio, Italy. He walks through what client-side validation on RGB Protocol on Bitcoin actually requires from a wallet, and why RGB ownership works differently from Lightning. In Brief No liveness required:…
This article is based on the RGB community call held on July 30, 2026, a developer-focused session with Renat Skitsan, CTO of Utexo, hosted by Birk from RGB Protocol Association. Renat walked through the Utexo SDK suite and gave a live demo of the bridge and a browser-based RGB Lightning wallet. In Brief What Is…
This article is based on the talk “RGB Protocol: Asset Issuance on Bitcoin and Lightning Network,” given by Federico Tenga (Bitfinex team) at Plan ₿ Forum 2022 in Lugano. Before RGB Protocol on Bitcoin reached mainnet, before v0.11.1, before Tether chose it for USDT, there was this talk. In 2022, Federico Tenga stood in front…
USDT on the Lightning Network is the next step for RGB Protocol on Bitcoin’s stablecoin infrastructure. Utexo is building the pieces that will make it work end to end: RGB Lightning Nodes, a wallet development kit, and a cross-chain bridge. In Brief How Does RGB Work on the Lightning Network? A normal Lightning channel moves…