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Sprites and State Channels

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.

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Authors
Andrew Miller, Iddo Bentov, Sandeep Bakshi, Ranjit Kumaresan and Patrick McCorry
Date
2017
Publisher
Andrew Miller, Iddo Bentov, Sandeep Bakshi, Ranjit Kumaresan and Patrick McCorry
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BLC-STUDY-0083
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Last reviewed
1 October 2026
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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.

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Miller, A., Bentov, I., Bakshi, S., Kumaresan, R., & McCorry, P. (2017). Sprites and State Channels. Andrew Miller, Iddo Bentov, Sandeep Bakshi, Ranjit Kumaresan and Patrick McCorry. https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05812

BibTeX

@techreport{sprites2017,
  title = {Sprites and State Channels},
  author = {Andrew Miller, Iddo Bentov, Sandeep Bakshi, Ranjit Kumaresan and Patrick McCorry},
  year = {2017},
  institution = {Andrew Miller, Iddo Bentov, Sandeep Bakshi, Ranjit Kumaresan and Patrick McCorry},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05812},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/sprites}
}

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AU  - Ranjit Kumaresan
AU  - Patrick McCorry
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UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05812
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

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