2 papers
cs.CR2025
OTS-PC: OTS-based Payment Channels for the Lightning Network
Sergio Demian Lerner, Ariel Futoransky
We present a new type of bidirectional payment channel based on One-Time Signatures on state sequence numbers. This new construction is simpler than the Poon-Dryja construction, bu…
cs.CR2025
BATTLE for Bitcoin: Capital-Efficient Optimistic Bridges with Large Committees
Sergio Demian Lerner, Ariel Futoransky
We present BATTLE for Bitcoin, a DoS-resilient dispute layer that secures optimistic bridges between Bitcoin and rollups or sidechains. Our design adapts the BATTLE tournament prot…