Amid the current climate emergency and global energy crisis, regulators have started to
consider their options to limit the power demand of cryptocurrency networks. One specific …

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 …

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

Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies, as deployed today, cannot
support more than several transactions per second. Off-chain payment channels, a “layer 2” …

Blockchains, in general, and cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, in particular, are realized
using distributed systems and hence critically rely on the performance and security of the …

Despite growing adoption of cryptocurrencies, making fast payments at scale remains a
challenge. Payment channel networks (PCNs) such as the Lightning Network have emerged …

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 …

Offchain networks emerge as a promising solution to address the scalability challenge of
blockchain. Participants make payments through offchain networks instead of committing …

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 …

Payment channel networks (PCNs) are viewed as one of the most promising scalability
solutions for cryptocurrencies today. Roughly, PCNs are networks where each node …