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

Sponsors:

• Swan Bitcoin
• Hodl Hodl Lend
• Braiins.com
• Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
• CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

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