Ordinals (Inscriptions aka. BRC-20) are a reality of the main chain and the high-fee mempool market, no matter what you think about shitcoins based on the bitcoin protocol.

The Taproot Assets Protocol (formerly Taro) will mitigate the protocol based constraints from on-chain to off-chain to the lightning network.

This Article is a great catch up for what's to come to mainnet very soon:

https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-05-16-taproot-assets-v0.2/

If you enjoy listening more than reading, have a an ear for #[1] :

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