Unjamming Lightning

For the past few months, I’ve been working with Clara Shikhelman at Chaincode Labs on the issue of jamming attacks in the Lightning Network.

Our efforts have resulted in a paper where we propose a solution that combines small unconditional fees and local reputation.

I’ve written a post summarizing our findings for the Chaincode Research blog:

https://research.chaincode.com/2022/11/15/unjamming-lightning/