Decentralized marketplace applications demand fast, cheap and easy-to-use cryptocurrency
payment mechanisms to facilitate high transaction volumes. The standard solution for off …

With the emergence of countless independent blockchain systems in recent years, cross-
chain transactions have attracted considerable attention, and lots of solutions have been put …

One of the fundamental problems that hinders the current blockchain systems for industrial
use is scalability. Lightning Network has been proposed to address this challenge, which …

The payment channel, which allows two parties to perform micropayments without involving
the blockchain, has become a promising proposal to improve the scalability of decentralized …

The rapid proliferation of decentralized marketplace applications demands scaling solutions
beyond pairwise channels in order to facilitate high volumes of consumer-provider payment …

With the increasing demand for digital currencies and other blockchain transactions, the
contradiction between the growing demand and the limited blockchain space has become …

Blockchains such as Bitcoin or Ethereum are distributed append only ledgers that rely on a
full consensus over each of the updates of the ledger. These updates are called blocks and …

Blockchain interoperability and throughput scalability are two crucial problems that limit the
wide adoption of blockchain applications. Payment channel networks (PCNs) provide a …

Blockchain has introduced a new era for online payment services and its economy with
tamper-proof cryptocurrencies. However, blockchain, which is based on global peer-to-peer …

Current permissionless blockchains suffer from scalability limitations. To scale without
changing the underlying blockchain, one avenue is to lock funds into blockchain smart …