- We are thinking of integrating LBTC (with an integrated swapping service).
I'm not really familiar with Liquid so my opinion isn't worth much, but I guess it all depends on the demand there is for it. Have you got requests from users to integrate it?
I mean, looking at
liquid.network I can barely see any transaction, and besides Blockstream's wallet I don't any major wallet integrating it (I may just be ignorant, tho). Of course it's always nice to see support for different technologies and someone has to go first, but as a startup with limited resources, you may want to think twice before doing it.
From what I understand swapping between BTC and L-BTC is also holding adoption back. As someone not familiar with Liquid, my point of view is that it should be as transparent / seamless as submarine swaps on Lightning, with very small fees and of course no KYC. But I don't know if that's realistic.
I'm sure you have already thought about integrating Lightning, but I'd like to mention it once again, as it's probably the most used scaling solution today. Also, that's more of a personal thing, but for some reason I tend to use desktop wallets for on-chain transactions and mobile wallet for Lightning ones, and since Peach is a mobile app...
In more concrete terms, I think Peach is great for onboarding newcommers. And I think we tend to onboard people with Lightning wallets, as they usually start with small amounts and most bitcoiners are familiar with this technology.
That being said, Liquid would also work for that use-case... if it was actually used.
Edit: one drawback with Lightning tho, is that you would likely need to implement a custodial solution.
Why would you implement support for a permissioned federation when you have options like Lightning and Monero available to you?
Indeed, that's another concern. (Although scaling Bitcoin is most a matter of compromises.)
Lightning is quite concentrated around a few companies, but at least the protocol is open and anyone can run their node and choose the people who they want to open channels with.