🔬 Era 1 · Foundation (2015–2018) — Payment channels, routing basics, atomic swaps

⚠️ Era 2 · Attack Discovery (2019–2021) — Wormhole, probing, flood & loot, congestion, empirical privacy

🛡 Era 3 · Defense & Formalization (2022–2024) — Twilight DP, Suborn, SoK Jamming, CRAB, Payout Races

🔭 Era 4 · Theory & Verification (2025–2026) — Horcrux, Formally Verified LN, Mathematical Theory