Blockchain protocols such as Bitcoin are gaining traction for exchanging payments in a
secure and decentralized manner. Their need to achieve consensus across a large number …

Blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum execute payment transactions securely, but their
performance is limited by the need for global consensus. Payment networks overcome this …

Cryptocurrencies, based on and led by Bitcoin, have shown promise as infrastructure for
pseudonymous online payments, cheap remittance, trustless digital asset exchange, and …

A major approach to overcoming the performance and scalability limitations of current
blockchain protocols is to use sharding which is to split the overheads of processing …

Blockchain protocols are inherently limited in transaction throughput and latency. Recent
efforts to address performance and scale blockchains have focused on off-chain payment …

Fabric is a modular and extensible open-source system for deploying and operating
permissioned blockchains and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by the Linux …

Despite the great success of blockchain systems in recent years, blockchains still struggle to
provide the same level of latency and throughput as centralized financial systems. The core …

Blockchain protocols such as Bitcoin [4] exchange payments in a secure and decentralized
manner, but their performance is limited due to their need to achieve consensus across a …

Cryptocurrencies, implemented with blockchain protocols, promise to become a global
payment system if they can overcome performance limitations. Rapidly advancing …

Blockchains are distributed secure ledgers to which transactions are issued continuously
and each block of transactions is tightly coupled to its predecessors. Permissioned …