Off-chain Channel Networks

Off-chain Channel Networks

1. Technical Building Blocks

   • Bitcoin
     • The Lightning Network
     • Sprites
       • Sprites: Payment Channels that Go Faster than Lightning
     • SPV (Simplified Payment Verification)
       • https://goo.gl/L1Yn2W page 149
   • Ethereum
     • Raiden
       • Raiden Network
         • raiden.network
       • uRaiden
       • Raidos
   • 2of2 Multi Sig
   • NofN Multi Sig
     • Merklized Abstract Syntax Trees (MAST)
       • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JeremyRubin/MAST/master/paper/paper.pdf
         • Jeremy Rubin, Manali Naik, Nitya Subramanian
     • Schnorr Signatures
       • Claus-Peter Schnorr. Efficient identification and signatures for smart cards. In Gilles Brassard, editor, CRYPTO’89, volume 435 of LNCS, pages 239– 252. Springer-Verlag, 1990
       • Claus-Peter Schnorr. Efficient signature generation by smart cards. Journal of Cryptology, 4(3):161–174, 1991.
       • Hash function requirements for Schnorr signatures, Gregory Neven, Nigel Smart, and Bogdan Warinschi. Journal of Mathematical Cryptology 3(1), pages 69-87, 2009.
   • Atomic Swaps
     • https://bitcointechtalk.com/atomic-swaps-d6ca26b680fe

2. Applications

   • Trading
     • Realtime
   • Payments
     • Over the Counter Trading (OTC)
     • Normal Payments
   • IOT

3. Routing

   • Proactive
   • Reactive
   • Location based
   • Hierarchical
   • Hybrid
   • Unsorted
     • BOLT: Anonymous Payment Channels for Decentrlaized Currencies
     • Orchid: A Fully Distributed, Anonymous Proxy Network Incentivized Through Bandwidth Mining

4. Security

5. Privacy

   • zk-SNARKs

6. Economical aspects

7. Other Scaling Solutions

   • Polkadot
   • Cosmos
   • Pegged Side Chains
     • Enabling blockchain innovations with pegged sidechains
       • https://blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf
   • Interledger Protocol
     • https://interledger.org/interledger.pdf
   • (Ethereum) Sharding
     • https://themerkle.com/what-is-sharding/
   • OpenANX
     • https://www.openanx.org/en/assets/whitepaper/openANX_White_Paper_ENU_V2.3.3.pdf
   • Plasma
     • https://medium.com/chain-cloud-company-blog/plasma-in-10-minutes-c856da94e339
     • https://plasma.io/
   • Orchid: A fully distributed anonymous proxy network incentivized through bandwidth mining
     • https://orchidprotocol.com/whitepaper.pdf