#[0]​ say the line! where does the yield come from?!

“…what if there was a way of renting inbound liquidity? A merchant could pay interest to rent liquidity from a node with money “sitting around”. It’s a win-win scenario: the merchant can bootstrap its node quickly and start accepting bitcoin over lightning as a payment method, and the seller can make his money work for him. This incentive structure gave birth to lightning’s liquidity marketplaces. A liquidity marketplace is an application that enables sellers to advertise their satoshis and buyers to rent the advertised liquidity.

In this case, the yield comes from the agreed-upon interest rate between the buyer and seller. When compared to routing payments, renting liquidity is a more passive activity, but it doesn’t come for free. Buyers are interested in renting inbound liquidity from reliable nodes that have a good reputation. If your node goes offline too often, it will be difficult to get anyone to rent inbound liquidity from you.”

https://voltage.cloud/blog/bitcoin-lightning-network/where-does-lightning-network-yield-come-from/