I'm still waiting for Lightning interoperability on Blockstream Green desktop. Until then I don't think I'll be using Liquid.
Several new projects in recent months have been leveraging the layer-2 interoperability of Lightning and Liquid. Some of these projects include nostr:nprofile1qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7qpqpsm37hke2pmxzdzraqe3cjmqs28dv77da74pdx8mtn5a0vegtlas6lr24h , nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmp0qythwumn8ghj7ct5d3shxtnwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qqsyv47lazt9h6ycp2fsw270khje5egjgsrdkrupjg27u796g7f5k0sjh66rd , and the Blockstream Green wallet and nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj730qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qpqajlrwgfj4yerhqf7ady03h7wmtk2qr3gs7h3sxcx83k05yld36ss534jfh wallets.
During a recent discussion on our Blockstream Talk podcast, Christian Decker, who leads the Greenlight project, elaborated on the benefits of a Lightning over Liquid (LoL) network. He explained how it could be seamless with Lightning over #Bitcoin, allowing for improved scaling, onboarding and possibility of new use cases like stablecoin-denominated channels.
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Green for liquid can't work privately, not a great look tbh for Blockstream. For example to open your wallet with the pin the app has to connect to a "jadepin" blockstream server, else you can't get to your wallet at all.
There's also 3-4 other servers the wallet needs to talk to in order to work properly, and that's beside the memory intensive electrum liquid server, which you can run yourself.
Quite a mess - it looks as though it would be easier (and better for users) if electrum wallet adopted liquid functionality if the sidechain became more popular among plebs.