> As a fork of Bitcoin core my guess is it's similar enough, and whatever they're doing to package contracts along with a BTC-like chain, it's gonna be similar to LN?

No.  LN scales using a layer 2 that uses the concept of payment channels.   Ravencoin is entirely on-chain.

If you aren't already familiar with it, what you might want to look into would be Omni (OmniLayer) and OmniBolt, which is what Synonym is using (and building ?) to facilitate token issuance.

https://synonym.to/our-stack/

But as I mentioned above, these things I know almost nothing about.

cointastical

bitcoin

Thoughts on Ravencoin? 

nkmg1c_ventures

Thank you for your reply. I'm just wondering if there's overlap between learning BTC + LN at the technical / transaction level (which I'm doing) and how Ravencoin does it? As a fork of Bitcoin core my guess is it's similar enough, and whatever they're doing to package contracts along with a BTC-like chain, it's gonna be similar to LN? I will read more. 