SLP375 Laolu (Roasbeef) - What is Taro? Stablecoins on Lightning, LN Growth & CTV

Laolu Osuntokun (Roasbeef), CTO of Lightning Labs rejoins me on the show to talk about Taro. Taro is a new protocol and proposal by the Lightning Labs team for creation of stablecoins or other assets that can be built into the existing Bitcoin/Lightning network. We chat about how it works and what it could mean for Bitcoin.

How Taro works
Prior efforts e.g. coloured coins, Counterparty, RGB
Benefits of Taro approach
What it would look like in practice
Lightning Network development generally
CTV and ST discussion

Links:

Twitter: @roasbeef 
Lightning Labs Taro Blog Post : A New Protocol for Multi-Asset Bitcoin and Lightning
Lightning Labs Engineering documentation: Taro is a new Taproot-powered protocol for issuing assets on the bitcoin blockchain.

Previous Episode:

SLP289 Roasbeef Bitcoin & Lightning For a Billion Users
SLP207 Roasbeef – Lightning Labs lnd Goes Wumbo
SLP39 Olaoluwa Osuntokun (Roasbeef), CTO of Lightning Labs

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Braiins.com
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