blockchainkit.channels
======================

.. include:: /_generated/nav/channels.rst

.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels
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How a blockchain scales beyond what every node can verify, and how chains
connect: Reed-Solomon codes and data-availability sampling; payment
channels from Spilman's to Lightning and eltoo, state channels and
watchtowers; multi-hop routing and balance probing; atomic swaps, a
light-client relay and two bridge exploits; Plasma, sharding, and zk and
optimistic rollups.

Every public name below is re-exported by the subpackage: import it as
``bk.channels.<name>``. The plotting helpers are the exception: import them
explicitly from ``blockchainkit.channels.visualizers``, which loads
Matplotlib.

Results
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.core.base
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Erasure codes and data availability
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.reed_solomon
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.data_availability
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Payment and state channels
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.micropayment
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.duplex
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.lightning
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.state_channels
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.eltoo
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.watchtowers
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Channel networks
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.routing
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.probing
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Interoperability
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.swaps
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.relay
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.bridges
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Scaling the chain
-----------------

.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.plasma
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.sharding
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.systems.rollups
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Plotting
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.. automodule:: blockchainkit.channels.visualizers.plots
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