Micropayments are paid out between nodes that host the mesh network, encouraging users to maintain an ecosystem of devices without relying on the internet.
To make managing liquidity as efficient as possible, Lightning Labs has developed a proposal called “Hyperloop," a concept that aggregates swaps so that individual transactions don’t occur on-chain with individualized signatures and outputs.
"There is no such thing as consensus on the Lightning Network; instead, we have compatibility. That means you can literally break the rules of the majority, as long as there are other people that have an incentive to break the rules with you. "