I appologize if there was confusion in my explanation. I am NOT suggesting people open a channel with each person. I meant, we can redefine the technical problem to it's pieces.

If you can send async VIA ANY ONLINE guy who has a channel with the real receipient, then the NEW problem becomes how can we trust this guy not to bounce? By having pieces of the puzzle the WAY hoppr does it, but not using their coin. It could be a bitcoin seed phrase proving signing via zk proofs.