A review of the lightning network's evolution: Unraveling its present state and the emergence of disruptive digital business models

TK Dasaklis, V Malamas - Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Lightning Network (LN), a second-layer protocol built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, is
an innovative digital payment solution that offers increased convenience, speed, and cost …

Three-stage cross-chain protocol based on notary group

L Chen, Z Yao, X Si, Q Zhang - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
With the continuous development of blockchain technology and economy, blockchain
applications have been well developed in multiple key areas. The demand for …

HCVC: A high-capacity off-chain virtual channel scheme based on bidirectional locking mechanism

S **e, L **ao, D Han, K **e, X Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As one of the key components of Web 3.0, the security of cryptocurrency is essential to its
development and application. A Payment Channel Network (PCN) enhances transaction …

Short paper: A centrality analysis of the lightning network

P Zabka, KT Foerster, C Decker, S Schmid - International Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
Payment channel networks (PCNs) such as the Lightning Network offer an appealing
solution to the scalability problem faced by many cryptocurrencies operating on a blockchain …

Payout Races and Congested Channels: A Formal Analysis of Security in the Lightning Network

B Weintraub, SP Kumble, C Nita-Rotaru… - Proceedings of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The Lightning Network, a payment channel network with a market cap of over 192M USD, is
designed to resolve Bitcoin's scalability issues through fast off-chain transactions. There are …

[HTML][HTML] SMPTC3: Secure Multi-Party Protocol Based Trusted Cross-Chain Contracts

H Mao, T Nie, M Yu, X Dong, X Li, G Yu - Mathematics, 2024 - mdpi.com
We propose an innovative approach called SMPTC3, designed specifically to enhance
security and privacy in cross-chain transaction verification. This approach addresses multi …

Auroch: Auction-Based Multipath Routing for Payment Channel Networks

M Ababneh, K Kolachala, R Vishwanathan - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The Bitcoin blockchain scalability problem has inspired several off-chain solutions for
enabling cryptocurrency transactions, of which Layer-2 systems such as payment channel …

Reducing CO2 emissions in a peer-to-peer distributed payment network: Does geography matter in the lightning network?

D Valko, D Kudenko - Computer Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain-related globally distributed peer-to-peer networks
have become an important payment infrastructure. Because they are naturally decentralized …

Increasing energy efficiency of bitcoin infrastructure with reinforcement learning and one-shot path planning for the lightning network

D Valko, D Kudenko - Neural Computing and Applications, 2024 - Springer
The lightning network (LN) is a technological solution designed to solve the bitcoin
blockchain transaction speed problem by introducing off-chain transactions. Since LN is a …

A blockchain-based privacy protecting framework with multi-channel access control model for asset trading

J Cai, H Huang, C Ma, J Liu - Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, 2024 - Springer
With development of e-commerce and intelligent devices, large amounts of asset transaction
data and traders' identity information have been generated. It poses huge challenges to the …