| # | Title | Citations |
| 1. | Enabling blockchain innovations with pegged sidechains Back, A and Corallo, M and Dashjr, L. 2014. | 1008 |
| 2. | Polkadot: Vision for a heterogeneous multi-chain framework Wood, Gavin. 2016. | 732 |
| 3. | A Survey on Blockchain Interoperability: Past, Present, and Future Trends Belchior, Rafael and Vasconcelos, Andr\'e and Guerreiro, S\'ergio and Correia, Miguel. 2020. | 702 |
| 4. | Atomic cross-chain swaps Herlihy, Maurice. 2018. | 603 |
| 5. | Chain interoperability Buterin, Vitalik. 2016. | 331 |
| 6. | XCLAIM: Trustless, Interoperable, Cryptocurrency-Backed Assets Zamyatin, Alexei and Harz, Dominik and Lind, Joshua and Panayiotou, Panayiotis and Gervais, Arthur and Knottenbelt, William. 2019.   | 264 |
| 7. | SoK: Communication Across Distributed Ledgers Alexei Zamyatin and Mustafa Al-Bassam and Dionysis Zindros and Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias and Pedro Moreno-Sanchez and Aggelos Kiayias and William J. Knottenbelt. 2019. | 234 |
| 8. | A protocol for interledger payments Thomas, Stefan and Schwartz, Evan. 2015. | 216 |
| 9. | Non-interactive proofs of proof-of-work Aggelos Kiayias and Andrew Miller and Dionysis Zindros. 2017. | 199 |
| 10. | zkbridge: Trustless cross-chain bridges made practical Xie, Tiancheng and Zhang, Jiaheng and Cheng, Zerui and Zhang, Fan and Zhang, Yupeng and Jia, Yongzheng and Boneh, Dan and Song, Dawn. 2022. | 156 |
| 11. | Hyperservice: Interoperability and programmability across heterogeneous blockchains Liu, Zhuotao and Xiang, Yangxi and Shi, Jian and Gao, Peng and Wang, Haoyu and Xiao, Xusheng and Wen, Bihan and Hu, Yih-Chun. 2019. | 151 |
| 12. | Interledger: Creating a standard for payments Hope-Bailie, Adrian and Thomas, Stefan. 2016. | 141 |
| 13. | About Blockchain Interoperability Pascal Lafourcade and Marius Lombard-Platet. 2020. | 132 |
| 14. | Atomic commitment across blockchains Zakhary, Victor and Agrawal, Divyakant and Abbadi, Amr El. 2019. | 124 |
| 15. | Zendoo: a zk-SNARK Verifiable Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol Enabling Decoupled and Decentralized Sidechains Alberto Garoffolo and Dmytro Kaidalov and Roman Oliynykov. 2020. | 124 |
| 16. | Channels: Horizontal scaling and confidentiality on permissioned blockchains Androulaki, Elli and Cachin, Christian and De Caro, Angelo and Kokoris-Kogias, Eleftherios. 2018. | 117 |
| 17. | Universal atomic swaps: Secure exchange of coins across all blockchains Thyagarajan, Sri AravindaKrishnan and Malavolta, Giulio and Moreno-Sanchez, Pedro. 2022. | 114 |
| 18. | Cross-chain Deals and Adversarial Commerce Herlihy, Maurice and Liskov, Barbara and Shrira, Liuba. 2019. | 111 |
| 19. | Overview of Polkadot and its Design Considerations Jeff Burdges and Alfonso Cevallos and Peter Czaban and Rob Habermeier and Syed Hosseini and Fabio Lama and Handan Kilinc Alper and Ximin Luo and Fatemeh Shirazi and Alistair Stewart and Gavin Wood. 2020. | 105 |
| 20. | Interledger Approaches Siris, Vasilios A and Nikander, Pekka and Voulgaris, Spyros and Fotiou, Nikos and Lagutin, Dmitrij and Polyzos, George C. 2019. | 103 |
| 21. | DeXTT: Deterministic Cross-Blockchain Token Transfers Borkowski, Michael and Sigwart, Marten and Frauenthaler, Philipp and Hukkinen, Taneli and Schulte, Stefan. 2019. | 100 |
| 22. | On the optionality and fairness of Atomic Swaps Han, Runchao and Lin, Haoyu and Yu, Jiangshan. 2019. | 75 |
| 23. | SoK: Exploring Blockchains Interoperability Gang Wang. 2021. | 56 |
| 24. | The Arwen Trading Protocols Heilman, Ethan and Lipmann, Sebastien and Goldberg, Sharon. 2018. | 43 |
| 25. | An empirical analysis of monero cross-chain traceability Hinteregger, Abraham and Haslhofer, Bernhard. 2018. | 42 |
| 26. | Bitcoin-Monero Cross-chain Atomic Swap Joël Gugger. 2020. | 42 |
| 27. | Towards atomic cross-chain token transfers: State of the art and open questions within tast Borkowski, Michael and McDonald, Daniel and Ritzer, Christoph and Schulte, Stefan. 2018. | 41 |
| 28. | Decentralized Cross-Blockchain Asset Transfers Sigwart, Marten and Frauenthaler, Philipp and Spanring, Christof and Schulte, Stefan. 2020. | 40 |
| 29. | Blockchain Gateways, Bridges and Delegated Hash-Locks Hardjono, Thomas. 2021. | 37 |
| 30. | Retrofitting a two-way peg between blockchains Teutsch, Jason and Straka, Michael and Boneh, Dan. 2018. | 34 |
| 31. | Liquid: A Bitcoin Sidechain Nick, Jonas and Poelstra, Andrew and Sanders, Gregory. 2020. | 34 |
| 32. | Verifiable computing applications in blockchain \vSimuni\'c, Silvio and Bernaca, Dalen and Lenac, Kristijan. 2021. | 28 |
| 33. | Timelocked Bribing Nadahalli, Tejaswi and Khabbazian, Majid and Wattenhofer, Roger. 2021. | 24 |
| 34. | Payment Trees: Low Collateral Payments for Payment Channel Networks Maxim Jourenko and Mario Larangeira and Keisuke Tanaka. 2020. | 19 |
| 35. | Plumo: Towards Scalable Interoperable Blockchains Using Ultra Light Validation Systems Gabizon, Ariel and Gurkan, Kobi and Jovanovic, Philipp and Konstantopoulos, Georgios and Oines, Asa and Olszewski, Marek and Straka, Michael and Tromer, Eran. 2020. | 18 |
| 36. | Game theoretical framework for analyzing Blockchains Robustness Paolo Zappalà and Marianna Belotti and Maria Potop-Butucaru and Stefano Secci. 2020. | 18 |
| 37. | Atomic Swaps between Bitcoin and Monero Hoenisch, Philipp and del Pino, Lucas Soriano. 2021. | 15 |
| 38. | Atomic Cross-Chain Swaps with Improved Space and Time Complexity Imoto, Soichiro and Sudo, Yuichi and Kakugawa, Hirotsugu and Masuzawa, Toshimitsu. 2019. | 12 |
| 39. | Blockchains as kripke models: An analysis of atomic cross-chain swap Hirai, Yoichi. 2018. | 12 |
| 40. | TrustBoost: Boosting Trust among Interoperable Blockchains Wang, Xuechao and Sheng, Peiyao and Kannan, Sreeram and Nayak, Kartik and Viswanath, Pramod. 2022. | 12 |
| 41. | LightSwap: An Atomic Swap Does Not Require Timeouts At Both Blockchains Philipp Hoenisch and Subhra Mazumdar and Pedro Moreno-Sanchez and Sushmita Ruj. 2022. | 11 |
| 42. | Timelocked Bribes Majid Khabbazian and Tejaswi Nadahalli and Roger Wattenhofer. 2020. | 10 |
| 43. | An analysis of atomic swaps on and between ethereum blockchains using smart contracts Bennink, Peter and Gijtenbeek, Lennart van and Deventer, Oskar van and Everts, Maarten. 2018. | 10 |
| 44. | Performance Overhead of Atomic Crosschain Transactions Robinson, Peter. 2020. | 9 |
| 45. | JugglingSwap: Scriptless Atomic Cross-Chain Swaps Shlomovits, Omer and Leiba, Oded. 2020. | 9 |
| 46. | Deterministic witnesses for claim-first transactions Borkowski, Michael and Ritzer, Christoph and Schulte, Stefan. 2018. | 8 |
| 47. | Cross-Chain Payment Protocols with Success Guarantees van Glabbeek, Rob and Gramoli, Vincent and Tholoniat, Pierre. 2019. | 8 |
| 48. | FastSwap: Concretely Efficient Contingent Payments for Complex Predicates Mathias Hall-Andersen. 2019. | 7 |
| 49. | Layer 2 Atomic Cross-Blockchain Function Calls Robinson, Peter and Ramesh, Raghavendra. 2020. | 6 |
| 50. | The Arwen Trading Protocols (Full Version) Ethan Heilman and Sebastien Lipmann and Sharon Goldberg. 2020. | 5 |
| 51. | Promise: Leveraging Future Gains for Collateral Reduction Dominik Harz and Lewis Gudgeon and Rami Khalil and Alexei Zamyatin. 2020. | 5 |
| 52. | On the deployment of FlyClient as a velvet fork: chain-sewing attacks and countermeasures Tristan Nemoz and Alexei Zamyatin. 2021. | 2 |
| 53. | Glimpse: On-Demand, Cross-Chain Communication for Efficient DeFi Applications on Bitcoin-based Blockchains Giulia Scaffino and Lukas Aumayr and Zeta Avarikioti and Matteo Maffei. 2022. | 1 |
| 54. | Xclaim: Interoperability with cryptocurrency-backed tokens Zamyatin, Alexei and Harz, Dominik and Lind, Joshua and Panayiotou, Panayiotis and Gervais, Arthur and Knottenbelt, William J. 2018. | 0 |
| 55. | Rootstock: Bitcoin powered smart contracts Lerner, S Demian. 2015. | 0 |
| 56. | Alt chains and atomic transfers Tier Nolan. 2013. | 0 |
| 57. | Drivechains, sidechains and hybrid 2-way peg designs Lerner, Sergio Damian. 2016. | 0 |
| 58. | Drivechain-the simple two way peg, November 2015 Sztorc, Paul. 2015. | 0 |
| 59. | PayPlace: A Scalable Sidechain Protocol for Flexible Payment Mechanisms in Blockchain-based Marketplaces Harishankar, Madhumitha and Iyer, Sriram V and Laszka, Aron and Joe-Wong, Carlee and Tague, Patrick. 2020. | 0 |
| 60. | Platypus: Offchain protocol without synchrony Ranchal-Pedrosa, Alejandro and Gramoli, Vincent. 2019. | 0 |
| 61. | Ping-Pong Swaps Grunspan, Cyril and Perez-Marco, Ricardo. 2022. | 0 |
| 62. | Flyover: A Repayment Protocol for Fast Bitcoin Transfers over Federated Pegs Javier Álvarez Cid-Fuentes and Diego Angel Masini and Sergio Demian Lerner. 2023. | 0 |