In our latest paper, we discuss the tradeoff triangle: Confidentiality-Efficiency-Effectiveness of the route discovery process. Route discovery methodologies gaining increasing attention as a scalability requirement on the Lightning Network, and Trampoline Nodes are currently the most accepted solution. The following will discuss the implications of selfish incentives on these nodes. Offchains & Route Discovery

In our latest paper, Maya Dotan and I show that Proof of Work (PoW) systems can never be used to solve meaningful problems in trustless systems. …

In our new paper, we uncovered a new denial-of-service (DoS) attack that could sabotage payments on the Lightning Network. This method exploits the routing mechanism to attract and hijack transactions using a small number of channels owned by the attacker. Through our experiments, just five new channels (costing less than 1$)…