Garou: An efficient and secure off-blockchain multi-party payment hub

Y Ye, Z Ren, X Luo, J Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To mitigate the scalability problem of decentralized cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and
Ethereum, the payment channel, which allows two parties to perform secure coin transfers …

Revive: Rebalancing off-blockchain payment networks

R Khalil, A Gervais - Proceedings of the 2017 acm sigsac conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Scaling the transaction throughput of decentralized blockchain ledgers such as Bitcoin and
Ethereum has been an ongoing challenge. Two-party duplex payment channels have been …

[PDF][PDF] NOCUST—A non-custodial 2nd-layer blockchain payment hub

R Khalil - 2018 - pub.tik.ee.ethz.ch
Bitcoin is meant to offer a payment system where the users are custodians of their funds
instead of entrusting a trusted financial institution. The limited transaction throughput of such …

Gnocchi: Multiplexed payment channels for cryptocurrencies

C Pan, S Tang, Z Ge, Z Liu, Y Long, Z Liu… - Network and System …, 2019 - Springer
As the underlying technology of mainstream cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum,
blockchain builds a decentralized payment system. However, the security and consistency of …

MPC+: Secure, Compatible and Efficient Off-Blockchain Multi-Node Payment Channel

L Huang, H Lei, L Wang - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Payment channels (PC) greatly improve blockchain scalability by allowing an unlimited
number of off-chain transactions instead of committing every transaction to the blockchain …

Boros: Secure and efficient off-blockchain transactions via payment channel hub

J Zhang, Y Ye, W Wu, X Luo - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Payment channel, which allows two parties to perform micropayments without involving the
blockchain, has become a promising proposal to improve the scalability of decentralized …

Multi-party payment channel network based on smart contract

Y Chen, X Li, J Zhang, H Bi - IEEE Transactions on Network …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are severely limited in transaction throughput and
latency. A promising solution to this issue is a payment channel, which allows trust-free …

Magma: Robust and flexible multi-party payment channel

Z Ge, Y Zhang, Y Long, D Gu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The lack of scalability is a leading issue of blockchain. By transferring transactions to off-
chain, 2-party payment channels achieve instant transaction confirmation between channel …

A cross-chain payment channel network

X Zhang, C Qian - 2023 IEEE 31st International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain interoperability and throughput scalability are two crucial problems that limit the
wide adoption of blockchain applications. Payment channel networks (PCNs) provide a …

Teechan: Payment channels using trusted execution environments

J Lind, I Eyal, P Pietzuch, EG Sirer - arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.07766, 2016 - arxiv.org
Blockchain protocols are inherently limited in transaction throughput and latency. Recent
efforts to address performance and scale blockchains have focused on off-chain payment …