It is getting more and more interesting now where the regulators start to speak and maybe also banks and other crypto haters come up to 'shut' down Bitcoin or 'only' ICOs, whatever the driver is.
Reading this here
https://twitter.com/ACBPage2/status/1004744584302419969and also knowing bit stuff in trading / investing there is surely coming up stuff now, even for BTC.
That a LN node is a payment processor is pretty much clear, but that second layer systems are potential securities is interesting and partially clear if you WANT to see / sell any second layer as a derivative to the underlying Bitcoin. Wording and selling that stuff as such... meh
Finally anyone promoting and introducing such stuff with hand waiving arguments incl SW and stifling the simple onchain scaling by simple easy blocksize growth might have some nasty awakening.
KISS is your friend if you do not understand fully what you change to young fast growing technologies and communities, esp if you try to bootstrap things for the entire world, incl SEC (and other) regulated regions!
I see only one clear scalable bespoke non-security coin with highest secure ASIC PoW and decent smart contract options out there, rapidly reaching (merchants) adoption.