Bitcoin Layer-2 Ecosystem Ready to Grow into the ‘Big Four’ of Lightning Network, Stack, Liquid, and Rootstock

According to the authors, the project needs improvements to avoid falling victim to the inherent limitations of the Bitcoin network. One specific upgrade to Raider is the Nakamoto release of Stacks, which is designed to enable cheap BTC transfers on L2, improving transaction speeds to around 5 seconds instead of 10-30 minutes or more.