In episode 772 of the Stephan Livera Podcast, Walter Maffione, CEO and co-founder of KaleidoSwap, talked about Bitcoin layer swaps: simple, trustless exchanges of bitcoin and stablecoins between Lightning, RGB Protocol on Bitcoin, Liquid, Arkade and Spark. He also covered the KaleidoSwap products, fees, the launch on mainnet, and the role of AI in payments.Watch…
At the Tuscany Lightning Summit 2026 in Viareggio, Italy, Birkan Kayadibi, COO of the RGB Protocol Association, talked about the work of the Association for RGB Protocol on Bitcoin, the growth of the RGB ecosystem since mainnet and the arrival of USDT.Watch the full interview in the video below. Note: the interview dates back to…
At the Tuscany Lightning Summit 2026 in Viareggio, Italy, Alekos Filini, the developer behind the first prototype of RGB Protocol on Bitcoin, looked back at the early days of the project and shared his view on assets on Bitcoin and on layer 2 protocols.Watch the full interview in the video below. Note: the interview dates…
At the Tuscany Lightning Summit 2026 in Viareggio, Italy, Stefano Pellegrini, RGB Protocol Team from Bitfinex, talked about the main improvements of RGB Protocol on Bitcoin since last year’s mainnet announcement: a new schema, a faster wallet, SPV proofs, and the place of RGB among Bitcoin’s layer 2 protocols.Watch the full interview in the video…
What drives the Taiwan stablecoin market? This article summarizes a conversation with Alex Chen, Growth Manager at BlockTempo (动区动趋), a Taipei-based crypto media outlet. The conversation took place on an X Space on October 14, 2026, in a Chinese-language community call hosted by @RGB_Bitcoin, and covered BlockTempo’s work, the Taiwan stablecoin market, and the view…
At the Tuscany Lightning Summit 2026 in Viareggio, Italy, Mo Harchegani, developer at KaleidoSwap, talked about sovereign trading on RGB Protocol on Bitcoin, interoperability between Bitcoin layers, and the latest KaleidoSwap products.Watch the full interview in the video below. Note: the interview dates back to May 2026. The products and plans in this article reflect…
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin has a new version in testing. On October 9, 2026, five core libraries tagged 0.11.2-rc.1, the first release candidate of v0.11.2, and three supporting libraries shipped 1.0.5 with security fixes. v0.11.1 remains the latest stable release. In Brief 0.11.1 and 0.11.2-rc.1: Two Versions, Same Consensus Rules Both numbers now appear in…
This article is based on the panel “Pragmatic Maximalism: The Market Wants Stablecoins,” held on the Nakamoto Stage at Bitcoin Asia, Hong Kong, on August 27, 2026, with the participation of Birkan Kayadibi, COO of RGB Protocol Association. In Brief: What Was This Panel, and Why Does It Matter for RGB? “Pragmatic Maximalism: The Market…
This interview was recorded at the Tuscany Lightning Summit 2026 in Viareggio, Italy, where Renat Skitsan talks about the pivot from ThunderStack to Utexo, why blockchains hit a scaling ceiling without client-side validation, and where he sees RGB Protocol on Bitcoin fitting into the future of Bitcoin’s layers. He is a co-founder of Utexo, and…
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?…