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…
On July 9, 2026, RGB Hub hosted a community call on decentralized exchanges with Darius, co-founder of LNFI Network, and Emile, head of growth at KaleidoSwap. MariJ and Birk moderated the conversation on self-custody, liquidity, compliance, and the arrival of USDT on RGB Protocol on Bitcoin.Watch the full video at the top of the page…
On October 17 and 18, 2026, 24 teams met at BLOX in Turin for Agentic Dollars on Bitcoin, the RGB hackathon 2026 of RGB Protocol Association with Tether as main sponsor. Over the weekend, between Saturday morning and Sunday at 13:00, every team built an application for digital dollars on RGB Protocol on Bitcoin, with…
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…
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…