From ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com Mon May 2 23:18:56 2022 From: ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com (ZmnSCPxj) Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 23:18:56 +0000 Subject: [Lightning-dev] Taro - Separating Taro concerns from LN token concerns In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Good morning John, and Laolu, > > but instead the requirement to add several feature concepts to LN that > > would allow tokens to interact with LN nodes and LN routing: > > From this list of items, I gather that your vision is actually pretty > different from ours. Rather than update the core network to understand the > existence of the various Taro assets, instead we plan on leaving the core > protocol essentially unchanged, with the addition of new TLV extensions to > allow the edges to be aware of and interact w/ the Taro assets. As an > example, we wouldn't need to do anything like advertise exchange rates in > the core network over the existing gossip protocol (which doesn't seem like > the best idea in any case given how quickly they can change and the existing > challenges we have today in ensuring speedy update propagation). Adding on to this, the American Call Option problem that arises when using H/PTLCs: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2018-December/001752.html The above objection seems to be one reason for proposing multi-asset "on the edge" rather than have it widely deployed in the published Lightning Network. Regards, ZmnSCPxj