Here is papers I’ve been waiting for for quite a while. Thinking about it, I’d be happy to have (co-)written it, had I directed my research into this topic a bit earlier. Today’s summary is based on a systematization of knowledge (SoK) paper by Lewis Gudgeon et al entitled “SoK: Off the chain transactions”. The readers of this blog must be familiar with some of the challenges in layer-two protocols which I outlined in previous paper summaries. But as in any rapidly developing field,...