Off-Chain Programmability at Scale

ePrint Report: Off-Chain Programmability at Scale

Yibin Yang, Mohsen Minaei, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Ranjit Kumaresan, Mahdi Zamani

A typical approach for scaling blockchains is to create bilateral, off-chain channels, known as payment/state channels, that can protect parties against cheating via on-chain collateralization. While such channels have been studied extensively, not much attention has been given to off-chain programmability, where the parties can agree to enforce arbitrary conditions over their payments without going on-chain. Such ability is especially important for scaling off-chain …

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