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Re:What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me by ogogmad on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @08:49AM (#33879653)
I don't know about rollups stuff, but Lightning Network-type 2nd-layers are prone to flood and loot attacks. I don't see a way to make them secure. I'm happy to be enlightened.
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Re:What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me by TimJRobinson on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @09:42AM (#33880652)
The lightning network is not a good example of an L2, it's extremely basic state channels and won't scale because of routing / liquidity issues.

Look into Optimism and Arbitrum for current technology, or zkSync, Starknet, Polygon zkEVM for next gen L2's coming soon. There's a big list of all the current L2's and their tradeoffs at https://l2beat.com

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Re:What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me by hanniabu on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @04:43PM (#33887484)
Lightning is more of a sidechain than an L2. And it's definitely not a rollup.
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