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…
This clip is from an interview with Federico Tenga, co-founder of the RGB Protocol Association, recorded at the Tuscany Lightning Summit 2025 in Viareggio, Italy, where he covers topics like RGB, stablecoins, and Lightning. We believe it’s interesting to see the interview, to remember the state of development at the time. See Further Reading below…
Stablecoins have quietly become one of the largest settlement systems in the world. In February 2026 they settled roughly $7.2 trillion in a single month, enough to surpass the US ACH network for the first time, according to data compiled by Artemis and reported across industry trackers. That is no longer a crypto trading story….
This interview was recorded at the Tuscany Lightning Summit 2026 in Viareggio, Italy, where Matteo Branchetti talks about bringing stablecoins on Bitcoin, privacy, and where RGB Protocol on Bitcoin is heading next. He is Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Utexo, which is building a stablecoin ecosystem on Bitcoin and Lightning powered by RGB Protocol on…