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Lightning is a second layer built on top of Bitcoin. On lightning you only pay routing fees if your payment goes through multiple hops. Those fees will generally be really small, like 5 sats. More for bigger amounts... For many lightning transactions there will be only one or two onchain transactions (those you can see in explorers) - specifically the ones that open and close lightning channel. But in the single channel there can be thousands or millions of lightning transactions.