Monero Talk interviews Sri Aravinda Krishnan on building a Lightning Network on Monero

In this Monero Talk episode¹’², Douglas Tuman interviews Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan³ on the challenges of developing a second layer on Monero, akin to the Lighting Network on BTC:

[..] I think it’s high time that you implement layer 2 .. like off-chain payments in Monero (28:20)

The two discuss what is holding XMR back from a L2 solution, bi-directional payment channels, atomic swaps and scalability.