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The Association develops and manages standards, registries, libraries, nodes, command-line tools and technical documentation

Standards

The association maintains so-called LNPBP standards: specifications, standards & best practices for Layer 2, 3 solutions (and above) in cases when they do not require soft- or hard-forks on the Bitcoin blockchain level and are not directly related to issues covered in Lightning Network RFCs (BOLTs).

Basically, LNPBPs cover everything that can be anchored to Bitcoin transactions, defines primitives for L2+ solution design and describes complex use cases which can be built from some primitives. This allows such solutions as financial assets, storage, messaging, computing and different forms of secondary markets leveraging Bitcoin security model and Bitcoin as a method of payment/medium of exchange.

Criteria for a LNPBP standard proposal:

  • Should not be covered by existing or proposed BIPs

  • Should not cause soft- or hard-fork in Bitcoin blockchain (but may depend on soft-forks from an existing BIP proposals)

  • Should not distort Bitcoin miner's economic incentives

  • Should not pollute Bitcoin blockchain with unnecessary non-transaction related data or have to maintain such pollution as low as possible

  • Must not require a utility or security tokens to function (but may enable creation of digital assets or tokenized physical goods)

  • Must not depend on non-bitcoin blockchains (but may be applicable to other blockchains)

The current list of standard can be found on a dedicated website or in GitHub repository here. You can use GitHub discussions to:

Registries

Data type libraries

Strict encoding data type libraries used in RGB smart contract development

AluVM libraries

Libraries for AluVM virtual machine used in RGB smart contract development

RGB interfaces

ABI (application binary interfaces) for RGB schemata (fungible tokens, NFTs etc)

RGB schemata

Specific templates for RGB contracts from independent developers

Libraries

Libraries maintained by the Association can be classified into the following categories:

  1. Consensus libraries

  2. Standard library

  3. Node-related libraries

  4. Application-level libraries

The dependencies between these groups are strongly abstracted into four layers, such that underlying group doesn’t know anything about the libraries from the layer above.

Consensus libraries

These libraries are a part of the ossified client-side-validation consensus and must not be modified except of bugfixing. Usually, consensus-level libraries are named with “Core“ or “Foundation” as a part of their name.

  1. Client-side-validation foundation library

  2. Bitcoin common libraries: implementation of parsing bitcoin data related to bitcoin consensus layer. Currently, there are split in two groups:

    1. Rust bitcoin ecosystem, maintained by Rust bitcoin community (mostly Blockstream members and Andrew Poelstra)

    2. BP Foundation Libraries, maintained by LNP/BP Standards Association, Bitcoin Protocol Working Group. Contain re-implementation or improvements of the rust-bitcoin libraries

  3. Bitcoin client-side-validation, also called “BP Core Lib”. It provides primitives such as deterministic bitcoin commitments (“TapRet”, ”OpRet”) and single-use-seals.

Repo (crate)GitHub OrgDescription

rust-lnpbp (lnpbp_secp256k1)

LNP-BP

Fork of Grin re-implementation of rust-secp256k1-zkp; used for bulletproofs only

rust-stens (stens)

Strict-Encoding

Data encoding used in RGB

rust-aluvm (aluvm)

AluVM

Virtual machine used in RGB

client_side_validation

LNP-BP

Abstract client-side-validation

bp-foundation

BP-WG

Bitcoin primitives (alternative to rust-bitcoin)

bp-core

BP-WG

Client-side-validation for bitcoin protocol

rgb-core

RGB-WG

RGB consensus library

Standard libraries

Standard libraries provide high-level convenience API for working with bitcoin, lightning & RGB, and do not perform any consensus-level tasks. Any validation and consensus operations must perform without standard libraries.

Repo (crate)GitHub OrgDescription

psbt

BP-WG

Implementation of partially-signed bitcoin transactions and operations with them involving signatures, support for client-side-validation etc

descriptor-wallet

BP-WG

Primitives for constructing wallets supporting bitcoin, lightning and RGB protocols

invoices

LNP-BP

Implementation of universal LNP/BP invoices standard

rust-lnpbp (lnpbp)

LNP-BP

Implementation if LNPBP standards for Base64, Bech32, Elgamal encoding and encryption

lightning_encoding

LNP-WG

Encoding for BOLT data used in lightning network

lnp-core

LNP-WG

Implementation of both BOLT and LNPBP standards of lightning network

storm-core

Storm-WG

Implementation of Storm specifications and standards

rgb-stdlib

RGB-WG

Convenience API for working with RGB smart contracts

Nodes

Toolchains

LNP/BP tools

A set of utilities for working with client-side-validated data, single-use-seals, RGB contract data, invoices etc.

Descriptor Wallet

Command-line wallet utility made with eponymous library/

Contractum

Language and compiler for RGB smart contracts

Hadron

Package manager for RGB (the name comes from the RGB-colored quarks confined within hardon particles)

Documentation

DocumentDescriptionAudienceURL

RGB FAQ

Gives introduction into RGB from a power user perspective

Most broad

Blackpaper ("whitepaper")

Systematically explains RGB, its capabilities and most important applications in half-technical terms

Most broad

Blueprint ("specification")

Technical explanation of all RGB internals, more readable than standards

Schema developers, integrators

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

Yellow paper ("formalism")

Formal mathematical specification on RGB

Computer scientists, cryptographers

AluVM

Documentation on AluVM - functional virtual machine used in RGB consensus, node and lightning

AluVM contributors, auditors, application developers using AluVM

Strict Encoding

Documentation on binary encoding used in RGB consensus

RGB schema (smart contract) developers; application developers using strict encoding

Contractum docs

Documentation on Contrctum languague

RGB schema (smart contract) developers

RGB source code

Source code for RGB consensus, standard lib and node

RGB contributors

Contributions to external projects

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

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