Lightning started with just a few Telegram chats... Plebs opening random channels, experimenting, and seeing what worked. 🤔 Today, it’s transformed into a quickly maturing, scalable, instant payment network… 1. Liquidity now trades through a transparent public marketplace (Magma) 2. Payments power popular apps and exchanges—not just novelty projects 3. Thousands of new nodes join from every corner of the world 4. Real-time data makes it possible to route efficiently at scale What began as a grassroots experiment is now global infrastructure. Built by peers. Coordinated without a central authority. Lightning wins the digital payments race because it was created from the bottom-up... Advanced by the people who use it every day. #lightningnetwork