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…
On Sunday, October 25, 2026, RGB Protocol Association hosts the Stablecoin Summit in Lugano: four hours on how digital dollars get issued, lent, and delivered to the people who use them, and on why Bitcoin keeps coming up as the place where they settle. The Summit starts the morning after Plan ₿ Forum ends. In…
RGB Protocol v0.11.1 is built using several open-source code libraries that software developers use to issue assets, build wallets, and validate transactions. Five of the core libraries have now tagged v0.11.1 without the release-candidate suffix they carried through the RC cycle, and three supporting libraries updated how their documentation is built, the same day. 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…
RGB Protocol Association is hosting Agentic Dollars on Bitcoin, a two-day Bitcoin hackathon in Turin, Italy, with Tether as main sponsor, where teams will build self-custodial dollar apps on RGB Protocol on Bitcoin, incorporating AI models that run locally on-device. In Brief What Is Agentic Dollars on Bitcoin? Agentic Dollars on Bitcoin is a weekend…
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 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…
Utexo has named UniSat as the next launch partner for USDT on RGB Protocol on Bitcoin, according to an announcement from Utexo’s official X account. In Brief What Was Announced Utexo’s official X account announced UniSat as the next wallet joining the rollout of USDT on Bitcoin, describing UniSat as “the home for Bitcoin assets”…
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…