Biggest Crypto Gainers Today December 31 – TWT, SOL, FGHT, D2T, RIA, TARO

The year 2023 seems to be off to a slow start for the cryptocurrency industry because although there are minor gains, the overall global market [...]

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Top Crypto Gainers Today December 31 – TWT, SOL, FGHT, D2T, RIA, TARO

The cryptocurrency market on Saturday, December 31, 2022, was flashing green, as the wider market stepped on the shoulders of leading cryptocurrencies Bitcoin (BTC) and [...]

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Top Crypto Gainers Today December 30 – FTX, SOL, FGHT, D2T, RIA, TARO

The year 2022 seems to be ending on a lyric note for most players in the crypto playing field, with the global market cap dipping [...]

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Biggest Crypto Gainers Today December 28 – BIFI, META, FGHT, D2T, RIA, TARO

As the year 2022 approaches its end, selling pressure has become a common theme in the cryptocurrency market. If your goal is to make large [...]

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Biggest Crypto Gainers Today, December 17 – ARG, MAID, FGHT, D2T, RIA, TARO

It has been a volatile week for cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin and Ethereum, which rose following the optimistic CPI report, only to see the gains wiped [...]

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Asset management firm launches BTC Lightning Network startup accelerator

The startup accelerator will consist of four yearly 8-week programs, with successful applicants receiving $250,000 and one receiving an additional $500,000 at the end of the program.

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Lightning Speed: Taro Is Here! Lightning Labs Releases The Code’s Alpha Version

The controversial Taro protocol is ready for testing. The initial version of the code is available on GitHub, and it enables “developers to mint, send, and receive assets on the bitcoin blockchain.” Notice that the company isn’t talking about the Lightning Network yet. In a blog post announcing the Taro launch, Lightning Labs promised, “once the on-chain functionality is complete, we’ll work towards integrating the Taro protocol into lnd, bringing Taro assets to the Lightning Network.” Related Reading: An Interview with Ben Caselin on AAX- Lightning Network Integration and TARO Protocol Implementation This is the first step of many and it’s mainly aimed at developers. According to Lightning Labs, “this initial release is only designed for testnet usage as a way for developers to start using the code.” That means, no real value is flowing through Taro at the moment. But… what is Taro anyway? The blog post defines it as a “Taproot-powered protocol for issuing assets that can be transferred over bitcoin and in the future, the Lightning Network for instant, high volume, low fee transactions.” Taro Will Enable Stablecoins To Travel Through Lightning This is a multifaceted protocol that allows many things, but the feature everyone is excited about is the fusion of stablecoins with the Lightning Network. It’s controversial because you have to trust the issuer of stablecoins, which means they come with counterparty risk. Bitcoin doesn’t have that problem. In any case, in the subsection titled “The First Step Towards Bitcoinizing the Dollar,” Lightning Labs tries to convince us that stablecoins over Lightning are a good idea: “With Taro and the incredible developer community, we can build a world where users have USD-denominated balances and BTC-denominated balances (or other assets) in the same wallet, trivially sending value across the Lightning Network just as they do today. This leap forward will accelerate the path to bringing bitcoin to billions.” If that sounds too much like Galoy’s stablesats, it’s because both implementations are trying to solve the same problem. They use vastly different methods, though. And place the counterparty risk in different places. BTC price chart for 09/29/2022 on Fx | Source: BTC/USD on TradingView.com How Does Taro Work And What Else Does It Do? Don’t worry, these brand-new protocols are hard to master, or even understand. Luckily for us, Lightning Labs gave us a technical-but-easy-to-follow explanation as a refresher: “Taro assets are embedded within existing bitcoin outputs, or UTXOs. Think of these assets as “UTXOs within a UTXO.” A developer mints a new Taro asset by making an on-chain transaction that commits to special metadata in a Tapoot output. When minting a new asset, the Taro daemon will generate the relevant witness data, assign the asset to a private key held by the minter, and broadcast the newly created bitcoin UTXO to the bitcoin network. This new outpoint becomes the genesis point of the newly minted asset, acting as its unique identifier.”  When Lightning Speed first tackled the Taro subject, we explained what a Taro asset can be: “What is a “Taro asset”? Whatever you want, your BTC can be “converted into different assets such as USD to EUR or USD to BTC.” Or, as Bitrefil’s Sergej Kotliar puts it, “Pay in currency of sender’s choice, receive in currency of recipient’s choice. This means that every wallet can now have native Strike-type “USD balance” functionality for example. With no need to trust the wallet, the only trust lies in the issuer of the token.” How To Get Started With The Novel Protocol As previously stated, this Alpha release is mainly for developers. If you’re one or know of one, here are the protocol’s coordinates:  “To get started exploring Taro, download the daemon, check out the API documentation, and read the getting started guide. And for a more extensive explanation on how Taro works, take a deep dive into the Taro BIPs and our documentation.” Related Reading: Lightning Speed: Taproot And The Lightning Network, A Match Made In Heaven Have a blast, developers. And please report back to us with your findings. Featured Image by Jennyrang from Pixabay | Charts by TradingView

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Developers Can Now Issue Assets Like Stablecoins On Bitcoin

Taro daemon's alpha release on testnet enables developers to test issuing, sending and receiving assets like U.S. dollar stablecoins on Bitcoin.

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Crypto Bank Protego Trust Appoints Ron Totaro as CEO

Ron Totaro comes with key leadership professional experience as digital asset bank Protego Trust seeks growth to continue serving the crypto marketplace. (Read More)

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Lightning Speed: Taro Wants To Abolish Cross-Border Payments, Disrupt The Market

Have you heard about Taro? It’s an improvement proposal for the Lightning Network that Lightning Labs introduced in April. “Taro makes Bitcoin and Lightning multi-asset networks,” the company claims in the latest edition of their newsletter. They also explain in simple words what the protocol does, how it does it, and the implications of its implementation. “In a world of omnipresent communications connectivity, nobody says “cross-border messaging” anymore. Taro promises to do the same thing to “cross-border payments” by decentralizing the entire global FX market into a protocol that can run on a Raspberry Pi by anyone, anywhere.” Is the Lightning Labs exaggerating? Or is Taro the protocol that will bring the next billion people to the Lightning Network? “The opportunity provided by Taro bringing assets like stablecoins to the Lightning Network is clearly enormous,” the company claims. Can Lightning Labs back that case and argue it convincingly? Let’s find out. What Taro Does And How It Does It   The first thing Lightning Labs makes clear is the psychology behind the improvement proposal. It almost seems like bitcoin’s Lightning Network will be serving Taro and not the other way around. “Instead of starting from scratch and bootstrapping a new ecosystem of nodes and liquidity, Taro will leverage the existing network effects of both the infrastructure that’s been built out over the last several years plus the 4000+ BTC allocated to the network today as a global routing currency.” How does it work, though? The “edge nodes” are the key. By “integrating with Taro,” normal Lightning nodes can now “process an instantaneous conversion from L-USD into BTC or vice versa, for a small fee.” That means that “every Taro transaction on the Lightning Network will be converted into BTC by the first hop, routed across the network as BTC, and then converted back into a Taro asset by the last hop before the destination” What is a “Taro asset”? Whatever you want, your BTC can be “converted into different assets such as USD to EUR or USD to BTC.” Or, as Bitrefil’s Sergej Kotliar puts it, “Pay in currency of sender’s choice, receive in currency of recipient’s choice. This means that every wallet can now have native Strike-type “USD balance” functionality for example. With no need to trust the wallet, the only trust lies in the issuer of the token.” The trust model is the main difference from Galoy’s Stablesats, another novel concept that looks for a similar result. BTC price chart for 08/13/2022 on Bitstamp | Source: BTC/USD on TradingView.com What Does Taro Mean For The Lightning Network? In a recent interview published by NewsBTC, AXX’s head of research and strategy Ben Caselin explained the protocol further “In Taro, smart contracts and asset transfers are not executed by the blockchain, and they are also not enforced by the blockchain. Instead, transfers are executed by the sender of an asset (who has to make a corresponding bitcoin transaction), and enforced by the recipient, same as the Lightning Network.” And in the previous Lightning Speed, we theorized about how big could this development be for the Lightning Network. “According to The Bitcoin Layer, “a global capital market operating on top of bitcoin-denominated financial rails is inching closer with each new onramp.” And the Taro protocol and all of the assets it would bring to The Lightning Network is the mother of all onramps.” Back to Lightning Lab’s newsletter, the company toyed with even bigger expectations. For example: “A community bank could issue a local stablecoin on Taro and it would only need a handful of nodes or liquidity providers to make a market between the local currency and the BTC core of the Lightning Network to be connected to a global community of buyers and sellers. No permissioning required!” They’ll Never See It Coming According to Lightning Labs, bitcoin “renders cross-border payments obsolete.” Stablecoins are a huge business and so are cross-border payments. In the intersection between them, Taro stands tall. “Visa’s 65% operating margin is one of the highest of all the companies in the S&P 500 index, and this margin is Lightning and Taro’s opportunity. They’ll never see it coming.” The company expects that the benefit for everyone working on the Lightining Network will be tremendous. “We expect that bringing Taro to market and making Lightning a multi-asset network will dramatically expand the Total Addressable Market for those building Lightning applications.” And you know what more users mean, more of those sweet-sweet fees.} Featured Image by Joseph Mucira from Pixabay | Charts by TradingView

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Lightning Labs Plans Stablecoin Protocol on Bitcoin

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Lightning Labs and Tari Labs agree to halt Taro protocol development

Lightning Labs and Tari Labs agreed to halt the development of the Taro protocol, after a temporary restraining order was converted into a preliminary injunction by the courts. The order was issued due to Tari Labs' claims that the name Taro infringed on its trademark rights. Lightning Labs is now unable to update or announce any milestones of the protocol until a court decision is reached. (Read More)

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RGB And Taro, Both Putting Tokens On Bitcoin, Take Two Different Approaches To Development

RGB and Taro, two protocols capable of putting tokens like stablecoins on Bitcoin, have taken different approaches to solving similar problems. This is an opinion editorial by Kishin Kato, the founder of Trustless Services K.K., a Japanese Lightning Network research and development company. Demand for stablecoins on Bitcoin is returning as the Lightning Network offers [...]

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Lightning Labs and Tari agree to convert restraining order in trademark suit

Tari Labs, who bought the suit against the project has faced backlash from the crypto community with some suggesting the lawsuit was “frivolous.”

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Biggest Crypto Gainers Today, April 8 – ENJ, FIL, LHINU, DLANCE, METRO, ECOTERRA, TARO

Bitcoin and Ethereum paused their aggressive bullish push in March that defied the banking crisis in the United States, which saw three crypto-friendly banks collapse. [...]

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BTC-Backed Stablecoins Will be An Integral Part Of The Bitcoin Economy

Over-collateralized, bitcoin-backed stablecoins are going to be an integral part of hyperbitcoinization.

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If BNB Goes To Zero, The Experts Will Be Safe With This Meme Coin

RobotEra (TARO) has emerged as a new contender amid dynamic and turbulent BNB market. This meme coin appeals to numerous experts and investors alike.  While [...]

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