Research corpus ScalingBLC-STUDY-0109

Perun: Virtual Payment Hubs over Cryptocurrencies

Lightning routes each payment through the intermediaries. Perun asks those intermediaries to set up a virtual channel and then step out of the individual payments. The paper gives the construction for one hub, on a chain that can run the contracts.

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Authors: Stefan Dziembowski, Lisa Eckey, Sebastian Faust and Daniel Malinowski
Date: 2017
Publisher: Stefan Dziembowski, Lisa Eckey, Sebastian Faust and Daniel Malinowski
Version: Source cited by the 2017 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0109
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Canonical readingPerun study
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Dziembowski, S., Eckey, L., Faust, S., & Malinowski, D. (2017). Perun: Virtual Payment Hubs over Cryptocurrencies. Stefan Dziembowski, Lisa Eckey, Sebastian Faust and Daniel Malinowski. https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/635

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@techreport{perun2017,
  title = {Perun: Virtual Payment Hubs over Cryptocurrencies},
  author = {Stefan Dziembowski, Lisa Eckey, Sebastian Faust and Daniel Malinowski},
  year = {2017},
  institution = {Stefan Dziembowski, Lisa Eckey, Sebastian Faust and Daniel Malinowski},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/635},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/perun}
}

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