⚡️ Lightning isn’t dead. It’s becoming the interoperability layer Bitcoin actually needed. Statechains like Spark and Ark are rising fast. Each with different trade-offs. Each powerful on its own. Lightning is the glue: message bus, liquidity fabric, exchange layer. Statechains specialize. Lightning connects them. This is Bitcoin scaling like the internet — not a monolith. Read more here: https://hexquarter.com/blog/bitcoin-app-stack-2025