Maxim Orlovsky is a computer scientist and cypherpunk who founded RGB, a scalable, confidential smart-contract system built on Bitcoin and Lightning using client-side validation. Maxim Orlovsky's Twitter Score is 40 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #23,275 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Maxim Orlovsky co-founded the LNP/BP Standards Association, the initiative under which RGB was designed and developed, building on client-side-validation and single-use-seal concepts. He also co-founded the RGB Consortium, the independent nonprofit to which maintenance of the production RGB consensus is being handed. He works at Pandora Prime, at the Institute for Distributed and Cognitive Systems, and at UBIDECO Labs. He previously served as an expert and mentor advisor to CV VC.
Maxim Orlovsky authored the RGB I.0 yellow paper and designed and implemented the v0.12 release of RGB, with financing from Pandora Prime and initial development support from Fulgur Ventures, while Bitlight Labs completed integral test coverage. The LNP/BP Standards Association initiative received support from Bitfinex and Fulgur Ventures, and RGB's broader development has drawn platinum sponsorship from Fulgur Ventures and Hojo Foundation, alongside gold sponsorship from iFinex, Poseidon Fund, and Pandora Prime AG. His engineering work spans a wide range of self-sovereignty technologies, including AluVM, Strict Types, Bifrost, Storm, reNostr, Prometheus, MyCitadel, LNP Node, and Contractum, with contributions also to Rust Bitcoin, Bitcoin Improvement Proposals, and Radicle.
Maxim Orlovsky has been developing Ultraviolet Network, a protocol combining RGB smart contracts with Prime, Prometheus, Storm, zk-STARK proving, and decentralized AI-agent infrastructure, with Pandora Prime identified as a co-creator alongside him. Maxim Orlovsky has been active on the platform since 2009, with 5,353 posts to date. He has been mentioned by 59 accounts, with 94 total mentions.
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