Builders

DarkHorse is a Bitcoin-native launchpad and swap built on RGB v0.11.1. It is putting asset issuance and trading in front of a growing community, with a public goal of bringing 100,000 people into RGB, and has been standing up its own Bitcoin full node so product queries do not depend on public explorers. It has also opened a Genesis Partner track, giving more people a place to launch and meet RGB assets, not only read about the protocol.

Julian Weber is building DarkHorse, a launchpad and swap for the RGB ecosystem. He has written about testing Utexo’s new SDK, getting USDT deposits running on Signet, and aiming for RGB tokens to trade against USDT on Bitcoin. He has also posted on standing up DarkHorse’s own Bitcoin full node, and on keeping rewards with real participants. That work helps more people meet RGB through issuance and trading, not only through announcements.

RGBMap is an open registry for RGB assets. The team compiled rgb-lib to WebAssembly so a consignment can be read in the browser — issuance, transfers, witnesses, seals, and amounts — without leaving the user’s tab. After a public request, they shipped it on signet in days. That lets people inspect RGB history locally, instead of trusting a hosted viewer.

Elian Ward is building RGBMap, an open registry for RGB assets. He has written in public about the hard parts of a shared registry — canonical encoding, silent hash forks, and field problems that never show up in the spec — and then helped ship a browser consignment reader on signet after one public idea. He credits the wider team and keeps the work on the open standard, with no vendor in the middle. RGB users should know him because he is turning those field problems into tools people can actually open.

Founder of BitMask and DIBA, Gideon has been one of the earliest product builders on RGB. He shipped a production wallet with RGB20 and RGB21 support, enabled Unique Digital Assets and peer-to-peer atomic swaps on Bitcoin, tested early RGB stablecoin imports, and helped take RGB from specification to user-facing tools as a founding member of the RGB Protocol Association.

The first self-service RGB order book. It gave assets a place to list and form a price, issued $RM as market and test infrastructure, and is moving from hosted matching to RGB Lightning Node trading.

A Bitcoin application framework built on RGB and Lightning. It integrated RGB into a node, shipped Wallet and Market SDKs, and as a founding member of the RGB Protocol Association helped move RGB from issuance tools to an application layer for wallets, markets, and future DEX/DeFi.

Built a seal-themed meme around RGB’s core “Single-Use Seal” mechanism, launched the SUS token, and planned NFTs. Since late 2023, it has built an organic community through hand-drawn whitelist campaigns, providing an early real-world use case for RGB community assets and contributing to community building and ecosystem adoption.

Originally issued on Counterparty, $MOULA later moved to Liquid and migrated to RGB in 2025, making it one of the few community projects to evolve from the early Bitcoin asset ecosystem into RGB. It was also the first RGB asset launched on LN Starter Zodiac Mint, providing an early real-world use case for RGB wallets and platforms while bringing its existing community into RGB through organic growth.

It was among the first to develop an RGB wallet accessible to ordinary users and has continuously tested real-world applications such as RGB20, RGB21, UDA, asset issuance, transfers, and community gifting.

It was first issued on Liquid Network in December 2023. RGB mainnet was not ready then, so the community launched the asset on the sidechain first. In July 2025, after RGB 0.11.1 and infrastructure such as LNFI became available, it migrated to RGB at a 1:1 ratio. It is the earliest memecoin on RGB, and currently the one with the largest community. Many people first learned about RGB through this frog.Contributed to RGB education.contributed to the education and wider adoption of the RGB ecosystem.

Building multi-asset DeFi infrastructure on Lightning, providing trading, liquidity, and application gateways for RGB, Taproot Assets, and BTC.

Build native RGB DEX and Lightning trading infrastructure to drive atomic swaps for RGB assets, cross-Bitcoin-layer transactions, and the deployment of developer tools.

Utexo is a Bitcoin payments company building infrastructure for instant, private USDT settlement on Bitcoin through RGB and Lightning. By shipping SDKs, RGB Lightning Nodes, a Tether WDK community module, and a browser SDK that can run a full RGB Lightning Node in-tab, they have made RGB usable for wallets and apps as a live payment rail, not just a protocol idea.