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LNP/BP Association

Non-profit supervising layer 2 & 3 protocols on Bitcoin & Lightning Network

LNP/BP1 Standards Association

We are Swiss non-profit supervising layer 2 & 3 open standards and protocols for Bitcoin & Lightning Network. We are creators of L2 and L3 protocols like RGB, Bifrost, Storm, Prometheus, Kaleidoscope and active builders of #BiFi (bitcoin finance) ecosystem on Lightning. We manage set of LNPBP standards and their opensource reference implementations under permissive MIT & Apache2 licenses. The Association was founded by @dr-orlovsky and @giacomozucco in 2019. You can read more about us on our website, lnp-bp.org and follow us on Twitter @lnp_bp.

LNPBP Standards

The current list of standard can be found here. You can:

Working groups

The reference implementations are split across multiple GitHub organizations, maintained by a working groups inside the Association.

  • RGB-WG: scalable & confidential smart contracts for Bitcoin & LN with client-side-validation
  • BP-WG: bitcoin protocol-related developments
  • LNP-WG: lightning network protocol evolution
  • Storm-WG: protocol for trustless decentralized & incentivized data storage network on top of Lightning network with bitcoin native payments
  • Prometheus-WG: protocol for trustless decentralized & incentivized computing network on top of Lightning network with bitcoin native payments

Software Products

  • RGB: Bitcoin & Lightning smart contracts
  • Descriptor wallet: bitcoin wallet library & cli supporting taproot, multisigs, miniscript, client-side-validation;
  • LNP Node: rust lightning node supporting Bifrost protocol & RGB

LNP/BP Association in 2019-2021 was a major contributor into @rust-bitcoin and other related project.

Footnotes

  1. LNP/BP stands for "Bitcoin Protocol / Lightning Network Protocol"

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  1. LNPBPs LNPBPs Public

    LNP/BP standards for bitcoin layer 2 & 3 protocols

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  2. presentations presentations Public

    Slides, visuals and video links that explain Bitcoin L2/L3 technological stack development, curated by LNP/BP Standards Association

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  3. client_side_validation client_side_validation Public

    Standard implementation of client-side-validation APIs

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  4. layer1 layer1 Public

    Paper on new bitcoin layer 1 design

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