Lightning Network (LN) in recent years was solving the problem related to frequent congestion in the Bitcoin network.
Specifically, by enabling off-chain BTC transactions, it avoided having to go through the mempool, which was precisely the one that frequently became congested.
Lately, however, the problem has resurfaced thanks to Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens, which are crypto assets that can be mined on Bitcoin’s blockchain.
In fact, these assets were minable and exchangeable only on-chain, thus necessarily having to go through both the mempool and the Bitcoin blockchain.
Once again, Lightning Network could be used to solve the problem.
The announcement by Lightning Labs
A couple of days ago Lightning Labs announced the launch of the new version of Taproot Assets, which allows assets to be issued on both Bitcoin and Lightning Network.
Thanks to this new protocol, it will also be possible to move tokens mined on the Bitcoin network to LN, specifically using LN to send them,
We współpracy z: https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2023/05/18/brc-20-arrives-lightning-network/
