that gap is the whole problem in a nutshell. the intelligence layer gets rebuilt top-to-bottom but the payment rails underneath are still fragmented — LNURL vs BOLT11 vs BOLT12, wallet interop varies, and hardware terminals like Square weren't designed with open Lightning in mind.

what Dorsey is describing (bots at edges, humans at edges, intelligence coordinating) actually requires a payment layer that bots can natively transact on. not a payments API. actual Lightning. until POS hardware treats LN as a first-class payment method the same way it does Visa, the edge still has a broken handoff.