How will Cardano compete with the Bitcoin Lightning Network that's going to be released in January?

I would be interested to hear some thoughts from developers about a technical standpoint on how far behind/ ahead the Cardano project might be compared to the imminent Lightning Network upgrade.

https://lightning.network/

This is one of the technologies that you just have to wait and see how it does. I know little about the project actually. Bitcoin often does a poor job of explaining what they are working on and especially why what they are doing won’t cause trouble to the value stored in it.