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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | Sprites and State Channels |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | State channels whose disputes do not have to hop one channel at a time. A global preimage manager lets a payment resolve in constant time on-chain. Lightning did not adopt this design as its production path. |
| Who may write | Andrew Miller, Iddo Bentov, Sandeep Bakshi, Ranjit Kumaresan and Patrick McCorry |
| What is settled | Parties update signed state off-chain. |
| Load-bearing assumption | This is not the Lightning specification. Lightning's HTLC route is a different paper. |
| What this library says afterwards | Channels still require capital locked in advance. Routing liquidity is not solved by the dispute trick. |
| Rights | Official external source only |