Blockchains have the potential to revolutionize markets and services. However, they
currently exhibit high latencies and fail to handle transaction loads comparable to those …

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 …

A leading approach to enhancing the performance and scalability of permissionless
blockchains is to use the payment channel, which allows two users to perform off-chain …

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

Improving the throughput of blockchain systems such as Bitcoin and Ethereum has been an
important research problem. Off-chain payments are one of the most promising technologies …

Over the past decade, cryptocurrencies have garnered attention from academia and industry
alike, fostering a diverse blockchain ecosystem and novel applications. The inception of …

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 …

In the current blockchain system, the transaction costs and network congestion are
increasing, thus the transaction rate is lower, which limits the wide application of blockchain …

Blockchain protocols are inherently limited in transaction throughput and latency. Recent
efforts to address performance and scale blockchains have focused on off-chain payment …

The rapid proliferation of decentralized marketplace applications demands scaling solutions
beyond state channels in order to facilitate high transaction volumes. In this work, we …