I'm not entirely sure how it works, but I imagine it's a bit like how a federated mint has channels to other LN nodes. Likewise an Ark Service Provider would have channels to other LN nodes. Happy to be corrected if it's not correctly understood though :)

kevin

I'm immediately less skeptical about it catching on if it's truly interoperable with lightning. Taking advantage of our existing infrastructure could be multiplacative for the network 

m00ninite

I think what they meant is that it will obsolete liquid, not that it doesn't have custodial risk :)

super_testnet

Rsync25

bitcoin

Introducing Ark by Burak

One of the more exciting things about this is the fact that it's supposedly interoperable with LN. I assume via the Ark Service Providers. Kind of like Fedimint but without the custodial risk.

If this works then I think this effectively makes Federated Mints obsolete.