Iris Wallet Desktop: First Graphical Interface for RGB Protocol on Bitcoin Lightning

Iris Wallet Desktop is the first graphical interface for receiving, sending, and managing RGB assets on RGB Protocol on Bitcoin. Until January 2025, using RGB Protocol as an end user required comfort with command-line tools and developer-grade software. This launch changed that.

What Iris Wallet Desktop does

Developed by the RGB-Tools team, Iris Wallet Desktop runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It 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.

The wallet supports both on-chain RGB asset transfers and Lightning Network payments, combining the privacy and scalability properties of RGB Protocol with Lightning’s speed and low fees.

Built on open-source RGB infrastructure

Iris Wallet Desktop is built on three open-source libraries maintained by the RGB-Tools team:

rgb-lib — the wallet library that handles RGB asset logic, available in Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Python, and Node.js
rgb-lightning-node — the Lightning integration layer, based on LDK
rgb-proxy-server — the consignment transport protocol

All three are freely available for developers building RGB-compatible applications.

Why It matters

For the ecosystem, the launch marked a transition point: RGB Protocol moved from developer-only infrastructure to something any user can interact with. That shift is a prerequisite for adoption at any meaningful scale.

Iris Wallet Desktop is listed among the available RGB wallets on rgb.info.

→ Read the full announcement on Atlas21