Let’s continue our journey though recent paper which suggest ways to optimize routing in payment channel networks. In previous posts, we looked an SilentWhispers and SpeedyMurmurs. Both approaches emphasized privacy as an important goal, but employed different constructions: landmark-based routing (SW) and embedding-based routing (SM). Today let’s look into a paper entitled “Routing cryptocurrency with the Spider network” (2018) by Sivaraman et al.