LNP/BP Association

Non-profit supervising development of layers for Bitcoin

Mission

Standardize

Create and maintain standards & public registries

See the current list of standards and registries

Implement

Develop opensource reference implementations of libraries, nodes & tools

See the list of our libraries, nodes and tools

Educate

Educate community and ensure alignment with cypherpunk values

See our values and community standards

Values

Censorship-resistance

Ability to transact is a form of free speech. All operations with LNP/BP technologies must be censorship-resistant, leveraging bitcoin PoW qualities and decentralized networks.

Privacy

Bitcoin and blockchains lacks privacy by exposing transaction graphs and allowing chain analysis. The new tech must be based on zk-proofs and client-side-validation to give the control over privacy back to the user.

Layerization

Separation of concerns & abstraction are cornerstones in developing and maintaining secure, extensible protocols and software

Activities

The Association fulfils its mission by creating and managing products, which include standards, registries, libraries, nodes, command-line tools and documentation.

The association products cover three main verticals:

Bitcoin protocol (BP)

Client-side-validation enhancements of bitcoin components

Lightning network protocol (LNP)

Generalization of lightning network supporting advanced functionality

Smart contracts (RGB etc)

Technologies enabling higher programmability with client-side-validation

Protocols

RGB

Scalable & confidential smart contracts with client-side-validation

LNP (Lightning Network Protocol)

Supporting Taproot, multi-peer participation, DEXes, composability and RGB

BP (Bitcoin Protocol)

Libraries implementing bitcoin protocol, for nodes and wallets

Sponsors & contributors

The association is a non-profit running on funds from our donors. We would like to thank all who made it possible for us to continue operations through the past years.