Lightning Labs, a Lightning Network infrastructure business, has published a beta version of the Taro daemon, a new software tool that enables Bitcoin developers to generate, transmit, and acquire assets on the Bitcoin blockchain. Taro – A Taproot-Based Protocol Taro is a Taproot-based protocol unveiled in April that enables Bitcoin to create assets like stablecoins on the Bitcoin blockchain. The assets can be exchanged for quick, high-volume, and low-cost transactions via the Lightning Network. Lightning Labs claims that the combination of Bitcoin, Lightning, and Taro would make it feasible to develop peer-to-peer stablecoins that are native to Bitcoin and Lightning, with quick settlements, cheap transaction costs, and no financial intermediates. Lightning Labs stated on Wednesday that it might create a scenario in which users may have U.S. dollar-denominated and BTC-denominated balances or other assets within the same wallet and easily and quickly transfer the money across the Lightning Network. Support For Lightning And Bitcoin Taro supports multi-asset networks for both Lightning and Bitcoin. Users can launch Taro channels, which connect at the edges and communicate with the current Lightning Network. Taro would use the almost 5,000 BTC now allotted to the network as a global routing currency rather than beginning from zero and establishing a new ecosystem of nodes and liquidity. A large and deep payment channel graph alre...
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