Layer 2 Scaling: Lightning vs Rollups vs State Channels

TECHNOLOGY · 2 min · 2026-01-10

Bitcoin's Lightning, Ethereum's Optimistic and ZK Rollups, and general-purpose state channels. How different L2 approaches solve the scalability problem with different tradeoffs.

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Layer 2 Scaling: Lightning vs Rollups vs State Channels