Amboss co-founder demos stablecoin payments over Lightning using Taproot Assets

Stablecoins have spent most of their lives on networks that are not Bitcoin. Amboss co-founder Jesse Shrader, known online as Jestopher, would like to change that. Shrader demonstrated stablecoin payments running over the Lightning Network using the Taproot Assets protocol. The demos showed USDT and USDC moving in real time across Lightning channels, with users swapping Bitcoin for stablecoin value along the way. What Amboss actually showed The engine underneath is Taproot Assets. The protocol lets people issue and transfer digital assets, stablecoins included, directly on Bitcoin. Think of it as letting Bitcoin carry passengers. The tokens ride on the network, move quickly across Lightning, and ultimately settle on Bitcoin’s layer one blockchain. Lightning, for the uninitiated, is a payment layer built on top of Bitcoin. It uses channels between participants so transactions can happen fast and cheap, rather than each one waiting for a block on the main chain. Amboss has built Taproot Assets support into several of its products: Rails, RailsX, and its Payments API. Together, these tools handle self-custodial liquidity, peer-to-peer atomic swaps, and routing payments across multiple...