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…
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…
At Origin Seoul 2026, Birkan Kayadibi hosted a fireside chat with Federico Tenga, both co-founders of the RGB Protocol Association: “RGB: What It Is and What It Makes Possible”. The conversation covers stablecoin privacy on Bitcoin, compliance, and Lightning payments.Watch the full video at the top of the page for the whole interview. In Brief…
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 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…