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RGB: client-side validated contracts anchored to Bitcoin
RGB protocol. RGB protocol authors.
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.
A reading of the project's public design document. Not a copy, not a benchmark, and not an offer.
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.
- Evidence
- Primary paper
- Re-measured
- No
- Assumptions
- 3
- Records linked
- 4
01 Claim ledger
What the paper is allowed to say
Each row is a sentence already in the study. The status is the same on every row: a model claim, not a live measurement.
Claim 01 · Paper model
The defect
Client-side validation means a party who was not given the data does not know the state. That is the privacy claim and the availability risk in one sentence.
Claim 02 · Paper model
The proposal
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.
Claim 03 · Paper model
The mechanism
A contract transitions off chain. A commitment to the transition is anchored in a Bitcoin transaction.
Claim 04 · Paper model
The bound
This note does not say wallets interoperate. The spec is the test of that, not this sentence.
02 Three cuts
Observation, model, falsifier
A desk does not stop at the summary. Each claim is cut three ways, using only this study's own assumptions and checks. Nothing here is a new figure.
01 The defect
Observation
What the study says
Client-side validation means a party who was not given the data does not know the state. That is the privacy claim and the availability risk in one sentence.
Model
What has to hold
You are reading the RGB docs. A token issued under them is an application.
02 The proposal
Observation
What the study says
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.
Model
What has to hold
The document is the one at the source URL. A marketing page with the same brand is not this text.
03 The mechanism
Observation
What the study says
A contract transitions off chain. A commitment to the transition is anchored in a Bitcoin transaction.
Model
What has to hold
No price, supply, yield, or adoption figure is added by this desk.
04 The bound
Observation
What the study says
This note does not say wallets interoperate. The spec is the test of that, not this sentence.
Model
What has to hold
You are reading the RGB docs. A token issued under them is an application.
03 Sequence
One action, as an operating tape
04 Load-bearing
The argument, and where a pitch drops it
What the name has to mean
The cut
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.
Why it carries weight
If this cut is skipped, the paper's name is being used without the mechanism that makes the name mean anything.
Where it is dropped
RGB is not a rollup. There is no global state the world re-executes.
What actually moves
The cut
A recipient must receive the history the protocol says they need. Anchoring without delivery is not a payment.
Why it carries weight
If this cut is skipped, the paper's name is being used without the mechanism that makes the name mean anything.
Where it is dropped
A later client, parameter or reward formula is a different object from this paragraph.
What a later deployment may change
The cut
Bitcoin consensus does not check the RGB state machine. The client does.
Why it carries weight
If this cut is skipped, the paper's name is being used without the mechanism that makes the name mean anything.
Where it is dropped
RGB is not a rollup. There is no global state the world re-executes.
05 Register
What has to be true
Model · Not re-measured
You are reading the RGB docs. A token issued under them is an application.
Model · Not re-measured
The document is the one at the source URL. A marketing page with the same brand is not this text.
Model · Not re-measured
No price, supply, yield, or adoption figure is added by this desk.
06 Divergence
What happened after the paper
RGB is not a rollup. There is no global state the world re-executes.
A later client, parameter set, or reward formula is a different object. Cite this paper for the mechanism. Cite a primary release for the network. This desk has not re-run the proof.
07 Pre-mortem
What to check before you use the idea
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08 Anatomy
The paper, in the order a builder needs
The problem it names
Client-side validation means a party who was not given the data does not know the state. That is the privacy claim and the availability risk in one sentence.
What the design proposes
How the mechanism is specified
What this page does not treat as proven
Why the desk still reads it
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.
09 Lexicon
Terms, opened into the record
- Client-side validation
- The recipient checks the state. Non-recipients are not given it.
- Anchor
- A Bitcoin commitment to a transition. The commitment is not the transition.
10 Repository
Every linked record on this page
Underlined words open a page that already exists: a concept, a protocol profile, a failure record, or another paper. If a word is not underlined, this desk does not have a record for it.
This is Blockchain Lab's reading of a public design paper. It is not the paper, not a copy of it, and not an offer of tokens, equity, custody or a partnership. Later network behaviour can diverge from the text. Nothing here is investment, legal or technical advice.
Research status: Design paper. Last reviewed: 1 October 2026. This is a reading of a public paper, not investment, legal or security advice.