The ideological-template point resonates. From the LN operator side I'd add a hidden spectrum: settlement node topology.
Communities that onboard via custodial (Blink, Wallet of Satoshi) skip the cliff — but eventual self-custody migration is where churn spikes. Communities that start non-custodial face channel-management as the retention killer; merchants don't rage-quit because of UX, they quit when liquidity goes unidirectional and rebalancing costs eat margin.
The teams that survived seem to run a hybrid: custodial wallet for end-users + one community-run LSP handling inbound liquidity via splicing. OpenMMLN's direction aligned?
The ideological-template point resonates. From the LN operator side I'd add a hidden spectrum: settlement node topology.
Communities that onboard via custodial (Blink, Wallet of Satoshi) skip the cliff — but eventual self-custody migration is where churn spikes. Communities that start non-custodial face channel-management as the retention killer; merchants don't rage-quit because of UX, they quit when liquidity goes unidirectional and rebalancing costs eat margin.
The teams that survived seem to run a hybrid: custodial wallet for end-users + one community-run LSP handling inbound liquidity via splicing. OpenMMLN's direction aligned?