Starfish: Rebalancing Multi-Party Off-Chain Payment Channels

arXiv:2504.20536 · cs.CR · Submitted 2025-04-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR

Submitted: 2025-04-29

Updated: 2026-09-21

Comments: 18 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in High-Confidence Computing (HCC)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Payment Channel Network — 19× in this paper
• Lightning Network — 7× in this paper
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Security and Privacy — 2× in this paper
• International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks — 1× in this paper
• US National Science Foundation — 1× in this paper
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Optimal Hub Placement and Deadlock-Free Routing for Payment Channel Network Scalability

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