Trading · Oct 16, 2026

Roblosats launches: trade XBT peer to peer, with no sign-up and no KYC

By xbt.live · 3 minute read

XBT now has a peer-to-peer market. Roblosats, a version of RoboSats for the BLAKE2b chain, launched on Oct 15. You can buy or sell XBT for dollars, euros or any of 60+ currencies, directly with another person, with no account and no ID.

How it works

Your identity is a robot. You get a random robot name tied to a token only you hold. No email, no sign-up. Lose the token and the robot is gone.
Funds are locked, not handed over. Trades use Lightning hold invoices on the XBT Lightning network. Both sides post a small bond, and the seller's XBT is held until the buyer's payment is confirmed.
Encrypted chat. Buyer and seller agree on payment details in a chat only the two of them can read.
On-chain payout option. Buyers can take their XBT on-chain instead of over Lightning.
Pay with bitcoin too. Trades can also be settled in SHA-256 bitcoin, on-chain or over Lightning.

Who you're trusting

RoboSats-style markets run through a coordinator. The coordinator's Lightning node holds the bonds and escrow during each trade and settles disputes, for a small fee. The first and only coordinator right now is Kilobot, charging 0.19% per trade. The builders have invited others to run coordinators, and more of them would mean less reliance on one operator.

Where to get it

Web: roblosats.kilombino.com
Tor: an onion address is listed in the launch post
Android: search "Roblosats" on Zapstore, or download from GitHub releases

It comes from the Kilombino project, which also built the Nodex Lightning explorer and Kilowallet, and was announced on X by Luis Marcano.

Before you trade

It's brand new. Start with a small trade and see how it goes.
The order book is thin. Early peer-to-peer markets often have few orders and wide spreads. Compare with the exchange price on our home page first.
You need an XBT Lightning wallet for the bond and most trades. Ask in the Roblosats support chat which wallets work.
Keep your robot token safe. It's the only key to an open trade.

Until now, buying XBT meant an exchange account. Roblosats is the first option without one. Prefer an exchange? Where to buy XBT.

Open Roblosats All XBT tools

Source: the Oct 15, 2026 launch announcement and the Roblosats GitHub repository. xbt.live has no affiliation with Roblosats and hasn't audited it. Not financial advice.

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Life support

So the patient was moved to the emergency room. In August, the SHA-256 miners left on their own chain, and the nodes enforcing BIP-110's rules kept going without them. At the end of the month, the rule-keeping chain switched its mining to BLAKE2b so the captured SHA-256 hash couldn't take it over. That chain is XBT. The full story is in How Bitcoin kept its rules and moved to BLAKE2b.

Patients on life support don't look healthy, and XBT doesn't either. About 102 XBT buy one BTC. It has had three bear markets in six weeks. That's what a rescue looks like from the outside. The people in the ER right now, the node runners, the miners, the builders shipping wallets and pools every week, are doing the work while the outcome is anything but certain. If the patient makes it, they're the ones who saved it.

The strangest part: you already own it

If you held bitcoin before Aug 8, 2026, you hold XBT. Same coins, same addresses, same keys. The proof of work that secured your coins for 17 years secures them on both chains, because the history is identical up to block 961,631. Every UTXO that existed before the split exists on XBT. The XBT you hold cost you exactly what your BTC cost you.

Since the split, the two histories have gone different ways. XBT's blocks follow BIP-110's rules: less data that isn't money, a cleaner chain going forward. Not sure what you hold? Check an address.

Two places at once

The body is still on the old chain: the brand, the network effect, the exchange listings, the ticker everyone knows. That doesn't disappear overnight, and we won't pretend it does.

But the thing that made Bitcoin worth caring about was never the brand. It was the idea: money that no state, no company and no small group of operators can change on users without their consent. That idea now lives on the chain whose users enforced their rules when it mattered. The body stayed. The soul moved.

Bitcoin was always a quiet way to separate money from the state. It still is. It just lives somewhere new.

Opinion. Not financial advice. XBT trades on thin markets and can lose most of its value quickly. Price figures as of the evening of Oct 10, 2026 (US Eastern).