Bitcoin RGB Protocol and Lightning Network Stablecoin Payment Infrastructure Bitlight Labs Completes $9.6 Million Pre-A Round Financing at a Valuation of $170 Million. This round of financing was led by Amber Group and Fundamental Labs.
The funds from this round will be used to accelerate Bitlight Labs' core contributions to the RGB protocol, deepen integration with the Lightning Network, and bring application-level solutions to market, including native Lightning Network payments, wallets, and RGB-based stablecoin channels.
Over twenty investors from the cryptocurrency, stablecoin, traditional finance, and payment sectors participated in this round of financing, including Amber Group, Fundamental Labs, United Overseas Bank, HV Capital, Outliers Fund, Taisu Ventures, Arkstream Capital, Signum Capital, Gate Ventures, and Sidedoor Ventures, as well as unnamed global stablecoin and digital asset companies.
Bitlight Labs stated: "This round of financing allows us to focus on our long-term strategy of seamlessly integrating RGB with the Lightning Network to achieve native Bitcoin stablecoin payments. We will work day and night on the core code development of RGB and Lightning Network stablecoins, enhancing interoperability and deploying in production environments to provide daily settlement solutions for wallet users, merchants, and enterprises."
Amber Group commented: "RGB adds a scalable asset layer to Bitcoin without increasing its burden. Combined with the Lightning Network, it opens a practical path for high-throughput, low-fee stablecoin payments. We believe Bitlight Labs is fully capable of driving widespread adoption in the fields of Lightning Network stablecoin wallets, payment processes, and enterprise integration."
RGB and Lightning Network: Native Stablecoin Solutions on Bitcoin
RGB is a client-validated protocol for issuing and trading digital assets on Bitcoin. By keeping contracts and state data off-chain, RGB enhances throughput and data processing scale and can interoperate with Layer 2 solutions. This allows users to hold and transfer assets (such as stablecoins) alongside Bitcoin in the same wallet.
The Lightning Network is Bitcoin's instant, low-fee payment network. Integrating RGB with the Lightning Network can provide channel operations, routing, and real-time settlement capabilities with asset awareness while minimizing on-chain footprint and inheriting Bitcoin's security model.
Bitlight Labs' current priority is to advance the integration of RGB with the Lightning Network, which is a technical prerequisite for achieving Bitcoin stablecoin payments, aiming to enable stablecoins to circulate natively on the Lightning Network and achieve a wallet user experience on par with Bitcoin. The company is actively collaborating with multiple stablecoin issuers and payment service providers to support multi-issuer interoperability, liquidity, and merchant-facing settlement processes.
Market Validation and Ecosystem Development
According to the official announcement, the world's largest stablecoin issuer, Tether, plans to launch USD₮ on the RGB protocol.
According to Tether, introducing USD₮ to RGB aims to enable fast and lightweight payments on Bitcoin, allowing users to hold and transfer USD₮ alongside BTC in the same wallet, and even enabling offline value transfer. This development highlights the strategic importance of RGB and the Lightning Network as native Bitcoin stablecoin payment channels.
About Bitlight Labs
Bitlight Labs is a Bitcoin and Lightning Network infrastructure company and a major contributor to the RGB protocol, dedicated to achieving native smart contract and stablecoin transactions on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. The company develops core code for the Lightning Network and RGB protocol, developer tools, and applications, aiming to provide scalable and sovereign asset solutions for the world's most secure decentralized network.
Bitlight Labs focuses on core protocol engineering and reference implementation for RGB and Lightning Network interoperability, developer SDK and node infrastructure, integrating Lightning Network wallets and merchant/payment tools, and building infrastructure for multi-issuer stablecoin interoperability and settlement on Bitcoin through RGB. The company's current focus is on delivering production-grade Lightning Network-RGB integration solutions to support stablecoin payments in consumer wallets, merchant acceptance, and enterprise settlement scenarios.
To explore the RGB protocol and Bitlight Labs' products, please visit their official website, and follow their official X account for the latest updates.
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