Payment channels (PC) are a promising solution to the scalability issue of cryptocurrencies,
allowing users to perform the bulk of the transactions off-chain without needing to post …

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 …

Off-chain protocols (channels) are a promising solution to the scalability and privacy
challenges of blockchain payments. Current proposals, however, require synchrony …

Most blockchain-based cryptocurrencies suffer from a heavily limited transaction throughput,
which is a barrier to their growing adoption. Payment channel networks (PCNs) are one of …

Payment channel networks (PCNs) mitigate the scalability issues of current decentralized
cryptocurrencies. They allow for arbitrarily many payments between users connected …

Payment channels networks drastically increase the throughput and hence scalability of
blockchains by performing transactions off-chain. Hence, they are a promising substrate for …

Micropayment channels are the most prominent solution to the limitation on transaction
throughput in current blockchain systems. However, in practice channels are risky because …

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 …

Payment channel hubs (PCHs) constitute a promising solution to the inherent scalability
problem of blockchain technologies, allowing for off-chain payments between sender and …

The recent development of payment channels and their extensions (eg, state channels)
provides a promising scalability solution for blockchains which allows untrusting parties to …