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I've really been enjoying these Vinteum Deep Dives (#1560888 #1584549) where they get together for a week or a few days and try to understand some topic in Bitcoin from the origins to cutting edge. This one is about layer 2s:

Designing ways to update claims offchain while preserving a path to enforce them through the blockchain  is one of the most interesting problems in Bitcoin protocol design.

I found their description of the various L2s accessible and well-researched. And I appreciated the breadth of their survey, looking in depth at:

  • Eltoo
  • Coinpool
  • Channel Factories
  • Ark (arkade and bark)
  • Statechains (Spark and Mercury Layer)

If you'd like a reasonably short, beginner-to-moderate level summary of the many and varied ways people might share bitcoin utxos, this article is worth a read.