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:

• submit a new standard proposal
• discuss preliminary ideas about new standards
• follow announcements about standard releases
• write about your implementation of one of the standards
• ask questions
• peer review & audit existing standards

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.