Mantras of the State Channel

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Liam Horne edited this page Jul 10, 2017 · 7 revisions

"Don't put it on the chain unless it needs to be on the chain"

"Off-chain consent is not revocable without unanimous consent."

"The upper-bound of work that one party can force upon another is that of doing it purely on-chain."

"A state channel should not cost more than doing it on-chain."

"Don't instantiate more than you need."

"Disagreements should be settled as locally as possible."

Written by Jeff Coleman, Denton Liu, and Anna Wang at Ledger Labs. This content is freely available under CC BY-SA 4.0.