RING 4 — CHANNEL LATTICE (L2) Label: Payment & State Channe…

RING 4 — CHANNEL LATTICE (L2)
Label: Payment & State Channels (Lightning, state channels, rollups/pegs)
Stakeholders: LSPs, routers, wallet devs, bridge operators, sidechain maintainers.
Cooperative Strategies:
- Liquidity as public good: balanced channels, path diversity, fail-open heuristics.
- Proofs over promises: watchtowers, HTLC/point-time-lock safety, client-side validation.
- Private-by-default routing: trampoline, blinded paths, minimal metadata.
Emergent Behavior: High-velocity settlement; locality of payments; fee discovery; privacy improves with scale.