i've spent the last year designing a distributed L2 with claude. there's no mining, just staked cryptographic ledgers enforced by your peer nodes. simple wallets are 12 words, multisig also supported, you can be offline as long as you want, still receive payments, and if your node goes offline or rogue, another node will have your funds when you come back
it's untested, but the theory appears sound. if it does work, it requires less trust and scales better than ark / spark / liquid. it requires transparency so there's no privacy, but you can open a lot of deposits and easily move funds in and out of ecash. all communication is over nostr relays, so only the relay knows your ip address
current state: 100% me running everything. hoping to shake out the remaining bugs and fan things out soon / now
bitcoin deposits
Bitcoin Deposits: A Layer 2 Scaling Protocol