RGB FAQ
  • Welcome to RGB!
  • 💡What is RGB?
  • 📚RGB Resources
  • ⚙️RGB design principles
  • 🎓RGB paradigms
    • Single-use seals
    • Cryptographic commitments
    • Client-side validation
    • Strict encoding
  • 🔖RGB Smart contracts
    • What is a smart contract?
    • What is contract schema?
    • How does one program RGB smart contracts?
    • Do you define the validity of a state transition with Schema?
  • ☣️RGB & ₿itcoin
    • Will RGB require a fork of Bitcoin or Lightning?
    • RGB testnet & mainnet
    • Taproot, Schnorr signatures and RGB
    • Does anything need to happen in Lightning or Bitcoin to enable Lightning on RGB?
    • Is there a plan to work on channel factories?
  • 🎨RGB NFT
    • RGB NFT vs other NFT
    • What's the difference between RGB design of NFTs and common NFT approach?
  • ❓FAQ
    • What is RGB?
    • What does 'RGB' stand for?
    • Is RGB a new blockchain?
    • What can I do with RGB?
    • Is it possible to create a DAO with RGB?
    • RGB vs alternatives
    • Is RGB Turing-complete?
    • Does RGB require Taproot?
    • What RGB is compatible with?
    • Will Simplicity be used in RGB?
    • Why there is no RGB MVP with updates rolling out after?
    • How is confidentiality reached in RGB?
    • How is safety reached in RGB?
    • What is client-side validation?
    • How scalable is RGB?
    • Is there an RGB "Hello World" guide?
  • 📖Glossary
    • Contracts
      • ContractId
      • NodeId
      • Node
      • State
      • State assignment
      • State transition
      • Assignment
      • Assignment variant
      • State data
      • State type
      • Metadata fields
      • Metadata
      • Data type
      • Genesis
    • AluVM
    • Bifrost
    • Client-side validation
    • Contractum
    • Deterministic Bitcoin commitments
      • Container construction/deconstruction
      • Container
      • Commitment
      • Commitment embedding
      • LockScript
      • Proof
      • Protocol-specific entropy
      • Supplement
    • Right
    • Schema & Scripts
      • Schema
      • Field type
      • Assignment type
      • Bit dimensions
      • ABI
      • Script library
      • Occurence boundaries
      • Script extensibility
      • Transition type
    • Single-use seals
      • Witness
      • Seal definition
      • Seal blinding
      • Multimessage commitments
      • Seal closing over message
    • Stash
      • Stash
      • Consignment
      • Disclosure
      • Anchor
      • Forget procedure
      • Merge procedure
      • Validate procedure
      • Conceal procedure
      • Consign procedure
    • Encodings
      • Merklization commitment encoding
      • Storage encoding
      • Strict encoding
      • Pedersen commitments
      • Blinding factors
      • Buletproofs
      • Conceal
      • Commitment encoding
  • 🙋Community
    • Developer calls
    • Presentation slides
    • YouTube
    • Getting familiar with RGB
    • Articles & interviews on RGB
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  1. FAQ

What does 'RGB' stand for?

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Last updated 4 years ago

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Originally, the name RGB was chosen because the project started as a "better version of ". Then, already during the few weeks into the research work with Peter Todd, in 2018, it diverged so much that it has nothing to do anymore with Colored Coins. But the name stuck. Also, it stands for "Really Good for Bitcoin' 😎

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