Sentences with phrase «payment channel technologies»

Still, despite the claims, it's worth noting the team is still exploring layer - two payment channel technologies in an effort to prepare for future users.

Then, as we start seeing payment channel technology coming out and being production ready, we're going to see the promise of instantaneous, trustless, off - chain transactions.

A faster, cheaper, and more functional network would deliver real value to our users, so we were excited by the growth of research into payment channel technology on the bitcoin network and innovative uses of this technology.

In building this, SpankChain seems ahead of ethereum developers more broadly (like those behind Raiden or FunFair) who have been working on building useful payment channel technology for the blockchain for some time.

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Moneris also collaborates with fintech innovators and startup founders to advance market - changing technologies in a range of areas, including mobile point - of - sale, omni - channel retailing and core payments.

Moneris is also developing complementary technologies to improve the retail experience for merchants in a range of areas, including mobile point - of - sale, omni - channel retailing and core payments.

The Raiden Network, a project utilizing payment channels to facilitate off - chain transactions, has announced raidEX: the network's decentralized exchange built on Ethereum and Raiden's off - chain state channel technology.

It has investments in various technology companies, including social media channels Slack and Twitter and bitcoin payments processing firm BitPay, through its venture capital arm.

«Advances in mobile point - of - sale, omni - channel retailing, and core payment technology have been central to Moneris and we look forward to future collaboration with startups to help steer the development of market - changing payment technologies.»

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However, Liquidity uses slightly different technology modeled after the Revive payment channel - a model first put forth by the Liquidity Network founders in a white paper in September.

That said, HAW sees this changing in the long - term - particularly in light of the development of so - called «layer 2» technologies around bitcoin such as Lightning, which is being built to enable the creation of bitcoin payment channels.

One of the exciting technologies that Segregated Witness will help enable is the Lightning Network, a technique for scaling bitcoin transaction capacity using Bitcoin payment channels.

P2SH support, the same technology implemented in Counterparty that makes payment channels possible, also makes on - chain «atomic swaps» possible.

«Lightning is an interesting second layer technology but I wouldn't say it is very exciting — Because From a business perspective I don't see that it is addressing any use case that we can use or institutions can use — More than just say payment channels or some other form of a private blockchain pegged token,» Chan reveals.

Byte Money taps into and revolutionises existing third - world payment channels and integrates them with first - world technologies.

At EDCON 2017 this week, Ledger Labs head of technology Jeff Coleman put forth a way of abstracting state channels that he believes would work for use cases beyond payments.

As off - chain payment channels are a multi-faceted technology, Coleman's idea is a part of a swathe of research aimed at enhancing the top - level layer of blockchain networks.

Worldpay is a leader in global payments, providing a broad range of technology led solutions to its merchants, enabling them to accept over 300 different payment methods, across multiple payment channels, nearly anywhere in the world.

The new version uses Lightning technology to transfer digital assets in payment channels and uses the Bitcoin blockchain as a settlement layer and dispute resolution mechanism that secures the assets.

The company also explained it is still exploring the feasibility of launching on a Lightning Network payment channel or a sidechain - other technology options that would make its platform less centralized, and that it would «continue to explore» these options.

«Leveraging [blockchain] / DLT technologies to provide a fantastic new foundation, enabled by layers of abstraction, can enable new payment channels, and securely hook in resources of all sorts,» he wrote, adding:

In particular, he emphasized that the development of technology would boost the payment industry by providing more payment channels.

As the co-creator of the Bitcoin Lightning Network, first proposed in February, Dryja and Joseph Poon kickstarted a conversation about how bitcoin's technology could be upgraded with payment channels.

So - called «state channels» aim to take the idea further by applying the same off - blockchain payment technology to smart contracts.

Lightning already uses this same technology to establish bidirectional payment channels on top of a single blockchain, so it is no stretch to open channels across two chains.

While there's been a handful of adult entertainment - based ICOs proposed, SpankChain is the one that gets mentioned privately fairly regularly, primarily because the project's underlying technology - running micropayments through payment channels - is solid.

However, Liquidity uses slightly different technology modeled after the Revive payment channel — a model first put forth by the Liquidity Network founders in a white paper in September.