A survey on blockchain scalability: From hardware to layer-two protocols

GAF Rebello, GF Camilo, LAC de Souza… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

HCNCT: A cross-chain interaction scheme for the blockchain-based metaverse

Y Ren, Z Lv, NN Xiong, J Wang - ACM Transactions on Multimedia …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
As a new type of digital living space that blends virtual and reality, Metaverse combines
many emerging technologies. It provides an immersive experience based on VR technology …

Route hijacking and dos in off-chain networks

S Tochner, A Zohar, S Schmid - … of the 2nd ACM Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Off-chain transaction networks can mitigate the scalability issues of today's trustless
blockchain systems such as Bitcoin. However, these peer-to-peer networks also introduce a …

On the impact of attachment strategies for payment channel networks

K Lange, E Rohrer, F Tschorsch - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Payment channel networks, such as Bitcoin's Lightning Network, promise to improve the
scalability of blockchain systems by processing the majority of transactions off-chain. Due to …

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 …

On the anonymity of peer-to-peer network anonymity schemes used by cryptocurrencies

PK Sharma, D Gosain, C Diaz - arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.11860, 2022 - arxiv.org
Cryptocurrency systems can be subject to deanonimization attacks by exploiting the network-
level communication on their peer-to-peer network. Adversaries who control a set of …

Analysis and probing of parallel channels in the lightning network

A Biryukov, G Naumenko, S Tikhomirov - International Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
Bitcoin can process only a few transactions per second, which is insufficient for a global
payment network. The Lightning Network (LN) aims to address this challenge. The LN …

Revelio: A Network-Level Privacy Attack in the Lightning Network

T Von Arx, M Tran, L Vanbever - 2023 IEEE 8th European …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Lightning Network (LN) is a widely-adopted off-chain protocol that not only addresses
Bitcoin's scaling problem but also enables anonymous payments. Prior attacks have shown …

Decentralizing the lightning network: a score-based recommendation strategy for the autopilot system

MS Mahdizadeh, B Bahrak, M Sayad Haghighi - Applied Network Science, 2023 - Springer
The fundamental objective of the Lightning Network is to establish a decentralized platform
for scaling the Bitcoin network and facilitating high-throughput micropayments. However, this …

Security and privacy of lightning network payments with uncertain channel balances

R Pickhardt, S Tikhomirov, A Biryukov… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The Lightning Network (LN) is a prominent payment channel network aimed at addressing
Bitcoin's scalability issues. Due to the privacy of channel balances, senders cannot reliably …