Honestly don’t know. I kinda see it as a progression over time. As L1 fees continue to increase, more folks will move to higher levels as the UX improves.

For example, I find myself on Liquid right now because non-custodial Lightning seemed too expensive for my use case (distributing small payments to nieces and nephews).

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But zaps could adjust to that, right? Or whatever the L3 solution will be…?

Yes, absolutely. The transaction costs on these higher levels should be very small. I’m expecting the zaps to flow freely.

For example, most people send zaps on nostr with primal which is a custodial lightning wallet. Being custodial, like a federation, keeps fees low.

It’s a tradeoff and sovereignty has a cost. Federations and custodial solutions like Primal are cheap but you give up some sovereignty because you don’t hold your own keys.