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 …

Blockchain technology has been developed with the vision to enable trusted collaboration
between untrusted parties, without the need for a central authority. Despite its many …

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

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

While blockchains and more generally distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) are passing
over their hype curve peak, their shortcomings are becoming more apparent. One relatively …

Dynamic off-chain routing in payment channel network (PCN)-based Internet of Things (IoT)
is attracting increasing research attention. However, there are two major issues in dynamic …

Money laundering using cryptocurrencies has become increasingly prevalent, and global
and national regulatory authorities have announced plans to implement stringent anti …

The concept of cryptocurrencies is prevalently used in the financial world. Some of the
currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have shown promising outputs. The scalability problem …

Payment channel network (PCN) is one of the promising solutions for scalable blockchains
since it shows great potential in improving blockchain network throughput. However, the …

In blockchain networks, transactions can be transmitted through channels. The existing
transmission methods depend on their routing information. If a node randomly chooses a …