A survey on blockchain scalability: From hardware to layer-two protocols

GAF Rebello, GF Camilo, LAC de Souza… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the great success of blockchain systems in recent years, blockchains still struggle to
provide the same level of latency and throughput as centralized financial systems. The core …

Self-Balancing Semi-Hierarchical PCNs for CBDCs

M Benedetti, F De Sclavis, M Favorito, G Galano… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We introduce a family of PCNs (Payment Channel Networks) characterized by a semi-
hierarchical topology and a custom set of channel rebalancing strategies. This family …

Self-Balancing Semi-Hierarchical Payment Channel Networks for Central Bank Digital Currencies

M Benedetti, F De Sclavis, M Favorito… - … and other Affiliated …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a family of PCNs (Payment Channel Networks) characterized by a semi-
hierarchical topology and a custom set of channel rebalancing strategies. This family …

Graph Neural Network-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Payment Channel Rebalancing

W Chen, X Qiu, Z Cai, B Tang, L Du… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building on top of blockchain, payment channel networks-backed (PCNs) cryptocurrencies
emerge as a promising solution for a mobile payment system with fewer intermediaries …

[图书][B] Stochastic Modeling and Optimization of Blockchain Networks

N Papadis - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Blockchain technology has attracted a lot of attention as the basis of the decentralized digital
currency Bitcoin. Its key advantage is that it enables multiple parties to reach consensus …

Lightning network economics: Topology

P Guasoni, G Huberman… - Michael J. Brennan Irish …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
By design, the Bitcoin protocol has a low throughput. The Lightning Network (LN) is a layer-
two solution built to increase throughput by cryptographically securing commitments to …

[PDF][PDF] Impact of Layer-1 Characteristics on Scalability of Layer-2 Semi-Hierarchical Payment Channel Networks

M Benedetti, F De Sclavis, G Galano, S Giammusso… - 2023 - dlt2024.di.unito.it
Assessing the scalability of a payment channel network is crucial as it directly impacts the
efficiency and user experience of blockchain-based payment systems used in high volumes …