Understanding the benefit of being patient in payment channel networks

Q Bai, Y Xu, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on Network Science …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scaling blockchain efficiency is crucial to its widespread usage in which the payment
channel is one of the most prominent approaches. With payment channels and the network …

Musketeer: Incentive-Compatible Rebalancing for Payment Channel Networks

Z Avarikioti, S Schmid, S Tiwari - Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2023 - eprint.iacr.org
In this work, we revisit the severely limited throughput problem of cryptocurrencies and
propose a novel rebalancing approach for Payment Channel Networks (PCNs). PCNs are a …

R2: Boosting Liquidity in Payment Channel Networks with Online Admission Control

M Bastankhah, K Chatterjee, MA Maddah-Ali… - … Conference on Financial …, 2023 - Springer
Payment channel networks (PCNs) are a promising technology to improve the scalability of
cryptocurrencies. PCNs, however, face the challenge that the frequent usage of certain …