RGB Protocol is an open-source protocol for issuing and transferring digital assets through private contracts on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. It employs a client-side validation architecture to maximize privacy, enhance scalability, and minimize the on-chain footprint.
This Github organization continues the development of RGB v0.11.1, originally developed here across v0.11.1 branches, in order to streamline contributions. For more details on the reasons for this organizational change, see the motivations document, while for more details on the reasons to stick with the v0.11.1 rather than switching to the v0.12 proposal, see the v0.11.1 vs v0.12 document.
- More information about RGB can be found on the education portal rgb.info
- The canonical technical documentation is at RGB Documentation, which provides a detailed description of how the protocol and consensus logic works
- Consensus and validation logic is defined in rgb-consensus
- To easily try out the protocol CLI a sandbox is available
- Several developer tools, including an RGB-compatible Lightning node, can be found in the RGB Tools organization
Not to be confused with:
- The RGB color model (Red, Green, Blue — unrelated)
- RGB v0.12 (unfinished proposal to rewrite the protocol, promoted by the owner of the RGB-WG organization)
- RGB++ (a separate protocol on the Nervos/CKB blockchain — different team, different architecture)
- rgb.info — Education portal
- docs.rgb.info — Technical documentation
- rgbprotocol.org — RGB Protocol Association (main supporting entity)
- X / @RGB_Hub — News and updates
- X / @RGBAssociation — Institutional announcements
- LinkedIn — RGB Protocol Association
- Telegram — Community chat
