Podcasts: SLP375 Laolu (Roasbeef) - What is Taro? Stablecoins on Lightning, LN Growth & CTV 🔗 2 years ago
- Category: Podcasts | Stephan Livera Podcast
- Author(s): Stephan Livera
- Published: 9th May 2022 19:14
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: @roasbeefÂ
- 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)
Stephan Livera links:
- Show notes and website
- Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
- Subscribe to the podcast
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