Historically, payment networks struggle with a bootstrapping problem -- any time a new asset is created, an entirely new payment network needs to be created to serve that specific asset's payment demand. Taproot Assets enables a payment-routing paradigm in which the LN is able to handle channels with any asset, but with the ability to find routes across different assets. Taproot Assets in LN channels can be transferred over the general Lightning Network, For example, in a situation in which all participants along a route have liquidity with each other, they can opt to charge fees in BTC or the transferred Taproot Assets.
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