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What crypto means by it

A Layer 2 network built on top of Ethereum, designed so a transfer costs cents rather than dollars while still settling down to Ethereum underneath.

What you already know this as

A fast domestic rail that nets payments through the day and settles into the main system at the end of it.

In Kite: One of the networks you can top up USDC from, alongside Ethereum and Polygon.

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