Celer Network: Bring Internet Scale to Every Blockchain
Mo Dong, Qingkai Liang, Xiaozhou Li, Junda Liu

TL;DR
Celer Network introduces a scalable, trust-free off-chain platform that enhances blockchain performance and privacy, enabling the rapid development of decentralized applications through innovative layered architecture and cryptoeconomics.
Contribution
It presents a comprehensive off-chain scaling solution with a layered architecture, novel routing, and cryptoeconomic incentives to support scalable, privacy-preserving dApps on existing blockchains.
Findings
Achieves an order of magnitude higher throughput than existing solutions
Supports fast, generic off-chain state transitions
Provides a flexible, layered off-chain ecosystem
Abstract
Off-chain scaling techniques allow mutually distrustful parties to execute a contract locally among themselves instead of on the global blockchain. Parties involved in the transaction maintain a multi-signature fraud-proof off-chain replicated state machine, and only resort to on-chain consensus when absolutely necessary (e.g., when two parties disagree on a state). Off-chain scaling is the only way to support fully scale-out decentralized applications ("dApps") with better privacy and no compromise on the trust and decentralization guarantees. It is the inflection point for blockchain mass adoption, and will be the engine behind all scalable dApps. Celer Network is an Internet-scale, trust-free, and privacy-preserving platform where everyone can quickly build, operate, and use highly scalable dApps. It is not a standalone blockchain but a networked system running on top of existing and…
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Taxonomy
TopicsBlockchain Technology Applications and Security · Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies · Caching and Content Delivery
