2 papers
cs.DC2026
Hypergraph based Multi-Party Payment Channel
Ayush Nainwal, Atharva Kamble, Nitin Awathare
Public blockchains inherently offer low throughput and high latency, motivating off-chain scalability solutions such as Payment Channel Networks (PCNs). However, existing PCNs suff…
cs.CR2025
A Comparative Analysis of zk-SNARKs and zk-STARKs: Theory and Practice
Ayush Nainwal, Atharva Kamble, Nitin Awathare
Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are central to secure and privacy-preserving computation, with zk-SNARKs and zk-STARKs emerging as leading frameworks offering distinct trade-offs in e…