Payment channel networks (PCNs) are viewed as one of the most promising scalability
solutions for cryptocurrencies today. Roughly, PCNs are networks where each node …

Despite growing adoption of cryptocurrencies, making fast payments at scale remains a
challenge. Payment channel networks (PCNs) such as the Lightning Network have emerged …

Although cryptocurrencies have witnessed explosive growth in the past year, they have also
raised many concerns, among which a crucial one is the scalability issue of blockchain …

Blockchain technology has been developed with the vision to enable trusted collaboration
between untrusted parties, without the need for a central authority. Despite its many …

Cryptocurrencies redefined how money can be stored and transferred among users.
However, independent of the amount being sent, public blockchain-based cryptocurrencies …

Abstract Payment Channel Networks (PCNs) enable fast, scalable, and cheap payments by
moving transactions off-chain, thereby overcoming debilitating drawbacks of blockchains …

Payment channel network (PCN) has become an indispensable mechanism to resolve
scalability issues in blockchain-based cryptocurrencies. On the other hand, PCNs do not …

The past several years have witnessed an explosive growth in cryptocurrencies, but the
blockchain-based cryptocurrencies have also raised many concerns, among which a crucial …

Payment channel networks (PCNs) have been proposed to address the low transaction
throughput of the permissionless blockchain protocols. Though the PCNs allow users to …

Current permissionless cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin suffer from a limited transaction rate
and slow confirmation time, which hinders further adoption. Payment channels are one of …