Our work was inspired and is made possible by the development of the Bitcoin Lightning Network by Poon and Dryja, the eltoo update scheme proposed by Decker, Russell, and Osuntokun and the MuSig signature aggregation scheme of Maxwell, Poelstra, Seurin and Wuille.
We would like to thank Daniela Perdomo and the goTenna team for their generous support of this project. Thanks to Albert Wenger and Nick Gross from USV for their encouragement, review and suggestions. Thanks to Jay Graber for early discussions that led to this proposal.
We are also grateful to the readers of early drafts of this proposal who generously took time to give us useful suggestions, constructive criticisms and thoughtful feedback: Alex Akselrod, Bryan Bishop, Nic Carter, Robin Chan, Arthur Demeester, Adam Gibson, Fabian Jahr, Bob McElrath, Steve Myers, Elaine Ou, Mats-Erik Pistol, Teemu Päivinen, Ram Ramanathan, Dan Robinson, Lucas Ryan and Peter Todd.