If stablecoins and real-world assets are going to exist in a durable, permissionless way, they need to live on Bitcoin.
Bitcoin offers global settlement without trust, intermediaries, or jurisdictional dependence. What it has historically lacked is a way for assets to exist on top of it without compromising those properties.
RGB provides a credible answer. By using client-side validation, RGB keeps asset logic off-chain while anchoring state transitions to Bitcoin. Validation happens at the edges, not through a global execution layer. There is no shared state for the network to enforce, no new consensus to introduce, and no requirement for Bitcoin to understand asset rules. This makes RGB one of the few asset models that fits Bitcoin’s design rather than working around it.
That is why RGB matters.
What becomes clear very quickly is that protocols alone are not enough.
Where the real work begins
As soon as stablecoins or real-world assets are used outside of demos, the challenges move above the protocol layer.
Applications need reliable ways to track RGB state over time. Transfers need monitoring and clear status handling. Payments need fee abstraction so users are not forced to manage bitcoin just to transact. Merchants expect checkout flows that resemble existing payment systems. Businesses need predictable tooling for balances, payouts, and internal transfers.
These are not edge cases. They are the basic requirements for real usage.
Today, much of this logic is rebuilt repeatedly, or avoided by moving to ecosystems where this layer already exists. As a result, Bitcoin remains underutilised for exactly the kinds of assets that would benefit most from its security and neutrality.
This is the gap Orbis1 is addressing.
What Orbis1 provides