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The concept of cryptocurrencies is prevalently used in the financial world. Some of the currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have shown promising outputs. The scalability problem of these cryptocurrencies is an ongoing challenge, solved through many facets. Bitcoin Lightning Network, a Layer-2 solution to Bitcoin Network, is an off-chain crypto transaction platform working on payment channels to transact bi-directionally between two parties. When the maximum payments flow is unidirectional, the individual balances of the parties in the direction of payment get exhausted. It results in the transaction failing for future payments in that direction and lowers the feasibility of network usage. In this paper, we propose a heuristic-based distributed solution by preserving the privacy and anonymity of the parties involved in the rebalancing procedure and improving the fund transfer capability of the channels. The rebalancing …