Eventually this dynamic gets to a point where things must actually be rebalanced by swapping funds between Lightning and the base layer on-chain. Statechains allow liquidity to be moved around with ...

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For context, he stated that some layer 2 networks, especially on Ethereum, have few or no validators on the chain, making transactions difficult. However, the peer-to-peer Bitcoin Lightning uses ...

but I don't believe this will reduce total on-chain transactions for two reasons. First, Lightning is optimized for small-value transactions. This is because the value of a Lightning transaction ...