Payment and state channels

Paying off chain with the chain as judge: one-way and duplex channels, revocation and penalties, general state channels, eltoo, and watchtowers.

Spilman and Hearn’s one-way micropayment channels (2013)

Spilman and Hearn's one-way micropayment channels (2013)

Decker and Wattenhofer’s duplex micropayment channels (2015)

Decker and Wattenhofer's duplex micropayment channels (2015)

Poon and Dryja’s Lightning Network: revocation and penalties (2016)

Poon and Dryja's Lightning Network: revocation and penalties (2016)

Sprites and general state channels (Miller et al., 2017)

Sprites and general state channels (Miller et al., 2017)

eltoo: channel updates without penalties (Decker, Russell and Osuntokun, 2018)

eltoo: channel updates without penalties (Decker, Russell and Osuntokun, 2018)

Watchtowers and PISA: guarding offline channel parties (McCorry et al., 2019)

Watchtowers and PISA: guarding offline channel parties (McCorry et al., 2019)