Credit networks rely on decentralized, pairwise trust relationships (channels) to exchange
money or goods. Credit networks arise naturally in many financial systems, including the …

Credit networks represent a way of modeling trust between entities in a network. Nodes in
the network print their own currency and trust each other for a certain amount of each other's …

The global economy relies on digital transactions between entities who do not trust one
another. Today, such transactions are handled by intermediaries who extract fees (eg, credit …

In order to scale transaction rates for deployment across the global web, many
cryptocurrencies have deployed so-called” Layer-2” networks of private payment channels …

In this paper, we propose a technique for rebalancing link weights in decentralized credit
networks. Credit networks are peer-to-peer trust-based networks that enable fast and …

The Ripple network is one typical blockchain‐based decentralized credit network, which
supports money transfer without physical money movement by only transferring the credits …

While being decentralized, secure, and reliable, Bitcoin and many other blockchain-based
cryptocurrencies suffer from scalability issues. One of the promising proposals to address …

Off-chain payment channels were introduced as one of the solutions to the blockchain
scalability problem. The channels shape a network, where parties have to lock funds for their …

Credit networks provide a flexible model of distributed trust, which supports transactions
between untrusted counterparties through paths of intermediaries. We extend this model by …

Cryptocurrency networks, such as Bitcoin, have emerged as a distributed alternative to
traditional centralized financial transaction networks. However, there are major challenges …