Since the inception of Bitcoin, a plethora of distributed ledgers differing in design and
purpose has been created. While by design, blockchains provide no means to securely …

Scaling the transaction throughput of decentralized blockchain ledgers such as Bitcoin and
Ethereum has been an ongoing challenge. Two-party duplex payment channels have been …

Blockchain has attracted more and more attention of academia, industry, and government in
recent decades. Different usage demands have inspired various blockchain designs …

Crosschain communications allows information to be communicated between blockchains.
Consensus in the context of crosschain communications relates to how participants on one …

The blockchain initially gained traction in 2008 as the technology underlying bitcoin, but now
has been employed in a diverse range of applications and created a global market worth …

Blockchain technology has emerged as the cornerstone of many decentralized applications
operating among otherwise untrusted peers. However, it is well known that existing …

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 …

Blockchains are tamper evident and tamper resistant digital ledgers implemented in a
distributed fashion (ie, without a central repository) and usually without a central authority …

Distributed ledger technologies like blockchain have gained great attention in both
academia and industry. Blockchain as a potentially disruptive technology can advance many …

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