The bitcoin lightning network: Scalable off-chain instant payments - The Lightning Network

A Fast and Scalable Payment Network with Bitcoin Duplex Micropayment Channels - The duplex payment channel #Symposium on Self-Stabilizing Systems

Teechan: Payment Channels Using Trusted Execution Environments - A payment channel protocol based on Lightning Network and TEE #BITCOIN’17

Atomic Multi-Channel Updates with Constant Collateral in Bitcoin-Compatible Payment-Channel Networks - Atomic multi-channel updates and reduced collateral that is compatible with Bitcoin #CCS ‘19. s

Perun: Virtual Payment Hubs over Cryptocurrencies - Virtual payment channel #S&P’19

Multi-Party Virtual State Channels - Virtual multi-party state channels #EUROCRYPT’19

Bolt: Anonymous Payment Channels for Decentralized Currencies - Anonymous payment channels #CCS’17

Concurrency and Privacy with Payment-Channel Networks - Privacy and concurrency in Payment-Channel Network #CCS’17

On the Difficulty of Hiding the Balance of Lightning Network Channels - Privacy of Balance #AsiaCCS’19

Anonymous Multi-Hop Locks for Blockchain Scalability and Interoperability - Secure and privacy preserving Payment-Channel Network #NDSS’19

P4PCN: Privacy-Preserving Path Probing for Payment Channel Networks - A cryptographic protocol for anonymous active probing #GLOBECOM’19

Split Payments in Payment Networks - Split transaction into unit-amounts and transfers independently through the same or different routes

Teechain: Scalable Blockchain Payments using Trusted Execution Environments - Off-chain payment protocol that utilizes trusted execution environments (TEEs) to perform secure, efficient and scalable fund transfers on top of a blockchain, with asynchronous blockchain access. #SOSP’19