OK probably not Iran.

So far the only successful examples here are Bitcoin Beach and with some stretch Germany with its Einundzwanzig activity.

Sure but I also seen apparent hashrate drop after US air raid.

You could send USD over Lightning without USDT but our fiat channels tech is on pause.

It is on forefront. Remember articles from years ago about booming bitcoin mining in Iran.

Bitcoin has smaller network effect to stables and dollar in general. Hard to swallow pill.

Looks like a theft

On Wallet of Satoshis.

Or, wall street takes over bitcoin.

IMF enables coordinated devaluation of fiat currencies. They need to prevent sovereigns from leaving dollar standard.

Flutter

I belive they were "helping" somebody during 3AC - FTX saga. But I may be wrong.

Probably UMA. If I remember correctly

Not yet. Lightspark brought KYC into LNURL.

Not really. It was rather 2fa feature.

Similar model existed in GreenAddress / Green wallet

It is cyclic. It is embedded. Since LN provably put many transaction offchain (it is not me who proved it is surprisingly US FED), we have relatively low fees now. Some new tokenization protocols increased them for a short time which is consequence of them being onchain. So the pressure is adequate to adoption levels.

High pressure > Tech for scaling > Low pressure > Higher adoption > ...

You think it half way. Fiat channels is just a go-to-market strategy to ease pain of e.g. TRON USDT. It's all may serve well to the Bitcoin-only economy because it allows for example bitcoin-priced commodity futures contracts. Lending too at least for when fiat currencies still exist.