Addressing Scalability Issues of Blockchains With Hypergraph Payment Networks

IF 4.7 2区计算机科学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI:10.1109/TNSM.2025.3542960

Arad Kotzer;Bence Ladóczki;János Tapolcai;Ori Rottenstreich

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Abstract

Payment channels are auspicious candidates in layer-2 solutions to reduce the number of on-chain transactions on traditional blockchains and increase transaction throughput. To construct payment channels, peers lock funds on 2-of-2 multisig addresses and open channels between one another to transact via instant peer-to-peer transactions. Transactions between peers without a direct channel are made possible by routing the payment over a series of adjacent channels. In certain cases, this can lead to relatively low transaction success rates and high transaction fees. In this work, we introduce pliability to constructing payment channels and graft edges with more than two endpoints into the payment graph. We refer to these constructions as hyperedges. We present hyperedge-based topologies to form hypergraphs and compare them to Bitcoin’s Lightning network and other state-of-the-art solutions. The results demonstrate that hyperedge-based implementations can both increase transaction success rate, in addition to decreasing the network cost by more than 50% compared to that of the Lightning Network.

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用超图支付网络解决区块链的可扩展性问题

在二层解决方案中，支付通道是吉祥的候选人，可以减少传统区块链上的链上交易数量，提高交易吞吐量。为了构建支付通道，节点将资金锁定在2-of-2多签名地址上，并在彼此之间打开通道，通过即时点对点交易进行交易。没有直接通道的对等点之间的交易可以通过在一系列相邻通道上路由支付来实现。在某些情况下，这可能导致相对较低的交易成功率和较高的交易费用。在这项工作中，我们引入了柔性来构建支付通道和具有两个以上端点的移植边到支付图中。我们把这些结构称为超边。我们提出了基于超边缘的拓扑结构来形成超图，并将它们与比特币的闪电网络和其他最先进的解决方案进行比较。结果表明，与闪电网络相比，基于超级边缘的实现不仅可以提高交易成功率，还可以将网络成本降低50%以上。

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IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management Computer Science-Computer Networks and Communications

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9.30

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15.10%

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325

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