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 …

A major approach to overcoming the performance and scalability limitations of current
blockchain protocols is to use sharding which is to split the overheads of processing …

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

Blockchains have the potential to revolutionize markets and services, yet, currently exhibit
high latencies and fail to handle loads comparable to those managed by traditional …

After the success of the Bitcoin blockchain, came several cryptocurrencies and blockchain
solutions in the last decade. Nonetheless, Blockchain-based systems still suffer from low …

Blockchain based systems, in particular cryptocurrencies, face a serious limitation:
scalability. This holds, especially, in terms of number of transactions per second. Several …

Blockchain is a decentralized digital ledger technology that offers transparency, security,
and immutability by recording and verifying transactions across multiple computers …

Blockchains are distributed secure ledgers to which transactions are issued continuously
and each block of transactions is tightly coupled to its predecessors. Permissioned …

Blockchain protocols such as Bitcoin are gaining traction for exchanging payments in a
secure and decentralized manner. Their need to achieve consensus across a large number …

Payment channel networks (PCNs) enhance the scalability of block-chains by allowing
parties to conduct transactions off-chain, ie, without broadcasting every transaction to all …