liquid is custodial. only liquid federation members have the ability to perform a peg-out operation, which burns L-BTC and sends real BTC back to the user. this is a permissioned process. nobody can unilaterally exit liquid. it is just as bad as a consortium chain like EOS, only people are letting it hold their bitcoins hostage.

you may say "but there are lots of important companies in the liquid federation." listen to yourself defending the consortium chain model. you're a filthy banker like the rest of them.

compare this with stage 1 rollups. any user can unilaterally exit funds from the currently most advanced type of rollup. you can remove your funds no matter what the node operator wants. the infrastructure can completely disappear and you can still get out.

samson mow is completely full of shit. the aqua wallet marketing materials contain lies. aqua wallet parks "your" funds on liquid and uses a DEX to swap them in and out of lightning. aqua is a custodial wallet.