What is the next layer?
Now that's not for me to understand, never mind to disclose early. I mean only to reiterate is that ATCSECURE's work continues on at the same incredible pace we've come to value so highly, and that there'll be hard evidence of this, probably this weekend.
I am going to take a wild guess and say the next layer is an encryption layer. You can see in the early network topology maps there is mention of encryption layers
http://www.x11coin.org/images/network1.png
This will create an encrypted "on demand" tunnel between the sender / receiver
Please note I am not an official XC team member.. I am just taking a wild guess at the next news...I could possibly be totally wrong.