Lightning Fast Raiden Network Coming to Ethereum Blockchains

Lightning Fast Raiden Network Coming to Ethereum Blockchains

Scalability is one of the main challenges faced by distributed ledger technology. It is widely felt that in order to challenge traditional payment networks and assume a key role in the decentralized future of the internet, blockchains must find ways to radically improve their throughput, measured in number of transactions per second. “Today’s....


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