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RGB is a scalable & confidential smart contracts system for Bitcoin & lightning network. |
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RGB smart contracts
RGB is a scalable & confidential smart contracts system for Bitcoin & lightning network. It embraces concept of private & mutual ownership and is a "post-blockchain", Turing-complete form of trustless distributed computing which does not require introduction of tokens.
RGB is being developed by the LNP/BP Association. The development is lead by Maxim Orlovsky and re-shapes earlier prototypes and ideas by Giacomo Zucco and Peter Todd on client-side-validation and tokens into a full smart contract system.
To learn more about RGB please refer to the following resources:
| Document | Description | Audience | URL |
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| RGB FAQ | Gives introduction into RGB from a power user perspective | Most broad | rgbfaq.com |
| Whitepaper (called "blackpaper") | Systematically explains RGB, its capabilities and most important applications in half-technical terms | Most broad | blackpaper.rgb.tech |
| Specification ("blueprint") | Technical explanation of all RGB internals, more readable than standards | Schema developers, integrators | spec.rgb.tech |
| Code docs | Documentation for the RGB-related APIs | RGB maintainers | docs.rs/<crate_name> |
| LNP-BP Standards | Formal & complete standardization of RGB algorithms & consensus | Auditors, RGB maintainers | standards.lnp-bp.org |
| Yellow paper ("formalism") | Formal mathematical specification on RGB | Computer scientists, cryptographers | yellowpaper.rgb.tech (not published yet) |
| AluVM | Documentation on AluVM - functional virtual machine used in RGB consensus, node and lightning | AluVM contributors, auditors, application developers using AluVM | aluvm.org |
| Strict Encoding | Documentation on binary encoding used in RGB consensus | RGB schema (smart contract) developers; application developers using strict encoding | strict-encoding.org |
| Contractum docs | Documentation on Contrctum languague | RGB schema (smart contract) developers | contractum.org |
| RGB source code | Source code for RGB consensus, standard lib and node | RGB contributors | github.com/RGB-WG |
NB: There is a fork of the RGB smart contracts by Lightning Labs, originally called CMYK and known under the brand of Taro. Please be warned that this fork was not audited by RGB team and represents a very limited and restricted functionality not allowing smart contracts but suited only for token issuance.