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The Liquid incident made me think differently about Lightning's security model too I've been digging into the Liquid incident this week, but one takeaway seems relevant to Lightning even though the architectures and failure modes are obviously very different. Nearly 4,000 unbacked L-BTC were created without stealing the federation keys. The signing infrastructure could work correctly while acting on state that should never have been considered valid. That got me thinking about a distinction we don't make often enough: Bitcoin's guarantees ≠ the guarantees of everything we build on top of Bitcoin. Lightning buys us instant settlement, cheap payments and scalability, but we also inherit channel state, implementation complexity, liquidity management, routing, watch requirements and potentially LSP/custodial dependencies depending on the setup.