Taproot Assets (TAP) Lightning Labs' protocol for issuing and transferring assets on Bitcoin and routing them over Lightning. Assets live in Taproot outputs; transfers use client-side validation. Repo: (Go). Concept - An asset is "minted" by committing its definition to a Taproot leaf script. - Asset state lives off-chain in client wallets; chain just commits hashes. - Transfers reveal Merkle proofs of ownership (similar to RGB's client-side validation). - For privacy: only the parties involved in a transfer see asset amounts. Components tapd (daemon) Companion to LND. Runs alongside, provide…