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RGB: client-side validated contracts anchored to Bitcoin

RGB publishes contracts whose state is validated by the client, with Bitcoin used as an anchor and a commitment, not as the place the contract state is published.

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Authors: RGB protocol authors
Date: 2023
Publisher: RGB protocol authors
Version: Source cited by the 2023 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0671
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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RGB publishes contracts whose state is validated by the client, with Bitcoin used as an anchor and a commitment, not as the place the contract state is published.

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Official source — RGB documentation
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A reading of the project's public design document. Not a copy, not a benchmark, and not an offer.

Relationships

Canonical readingRGB protocol study
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Author–date

RGB protocol authors (2023). RGB: client-side validated contracts anchored to Bitcoin. RGB protocol authors. https://docs.rgb.info/

BibTeX

@techreport{rgbprotocol2023,
  title = {RGB: client-side validated contracts anchored to Bitcoin},
  author = {RGB protocol authors},
  year = {2023},
  institution = {RGB protocol authors},
  url = {https://docs.rgb.info/},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/rgb-protocol}
}

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N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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