| # | Title | Citations |
| 1. | Enabling blockchain innovations with pegged sidechains Back, A and Corallo, M and Dashjr, L. 2014. | 856 |
| 2. | Polkadot: Vision for a heterogeneous multi-chain framework Wood, Gavin. 2016. | 454 |
| 3. | Atomic cross-chain swaps Herlihy, Maurice. 2018. | 432 |
| 4. | A Survey on Blockchain Interoperability: Past, Present, and Future Trends Belchior, Rafael and Vasconcelos, Andr\'e and Guerreiro, S\'ergio and Correia, Miguel. 2020. | 339 |
| 5. | Chain interoperability Buterin, Vitalik. 2016. | 238 |
| 6. | A protocol for interledger payments Thomas, Stefan and Schwartz, Evan. 2015. | 174 |
| 7. | XCLAIM: Trustless, Interoperable, Cryptocurrency-Backed Assets Zamyatin, Alexei and Harz, Dominik and Lind, Joshua and Panayiotou, Panayiotis and Gervais, Arthur and Knottenbelt, William. 2019.   | 167 |
| 8. | 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. | 153 |
| 9. | Non-interactive proofs of proof-of-work Aggelos Kiayias and Andrew Miller and Dionysis Zindros. 2017. | 148 |
| 10. | Atomic commitment across blockchains Zakhary, Victor and Agrawal, Divyakant and Abbadi, Amr El. 2019. | 99 |
| 11. | Channels: Horizontal scaling and confidentiality on permissioned blockchains Androulaki, Elli and Cachin, Christian and De Caro, Angelo and Kokoris-Kogias, Eleftherios. 2018. | 98 |
| 12. | 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. | 96 |
| 13. | Interledger: Creating a standard for payments Hope-Bailie, Adrian and Thomas, Stefan. 2016. | 93 |
| 14. | Cross-chain Deals and Adversarial Commerce Herlihy, Maurice and Liskov, Barbara and Shrira, Liuba. 2019. | 86 |
| 15. | About Blockchain Interoperability Pascal Lafourcade and Marius Lombard-Platet. 2020. | 83 |
| 16. | Interledger Approaches Siris, Vasilios A and Nikander, Pekka and Voulgaris, Spyros and Fotiou, Nikos and Lagutin, Dmitrij and Polyzos, George C. 2019. | 79 |
| 17. | DeXTT: Deterministic Cross-Blockchain Token Transfers Borkowski, Michael and Sigwart, Marten and Frauenthaler, Philipp and Hukkinen, Taneli and Schulte, Stefan. 2019. | 73 |
| 18. | Zendoo: a zk-SNARK Verifiable Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol Enabling Decoupled and Decentralized Sidechains Alberto Garoffolo and Dmytro Kaidalov and Roman Oliynykov. 2020. | 71 |
| 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. | 58 |
| 20. | On the optionality and fairness of Atomic Swaps Han, Runchao and Lin, Haoyu and Yu, Jiangshan. 2019. | 53 |
| 21. | Rootstock: Bitcoin powered smart contracts Lerner, S Demian. 2015. | 40 |
| 22. | Universal atomic swaps: Secure exchange of coins across all blockchains Thyagarajan, Sri AravindaKrishnan and Malavolta, Giulio and Moreno-Sanchez, Pedro. 2022. | 32 |
| 23. | The Arwen Trading Protocols Heilman, Ethan and Lipmann, Sebastien and Goldberg, Sharon. 2018. | 31 |
| 24. | Retrofitting a two-way peg between blockchains Teutsch, Jason and Straka, Michael and Boneh, Dan. 2018. | 30 |
| 25. | 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. | 28 |
| 26. | SoK: Exploring Blockchains Interoperability Gang Wang. 2021. | 27 |
| 27. | Bitcoin-Monero Cross-chain Atomic Swap Joël Gugger. 2020. | 24 |
| 28. | Blockchain Gateways, Bridges and Delegated Hash-Locks Hardjono, Thomas. 2021. | 24 |
| 29. | Liquid: A Bitcoin Sidechain Nick, Jonas and Poelstra, Andrew and Sanders, Gregory. 2020. | 22 |
| 30. | Decentralized Cross-Blockchain Asset Transfers Sigwart, Marten and Frauenthaler, Philipp and Spanring, Christof and Schulte, Stefan. 2020. | 22 |
| 31. | 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. | 21 |
| 32. | An empirical analysis of monero cross-chain traceability Hinteregger, Abraham and Haslhofer, Bernhard. 2018. | 18 |
| 33. | 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. | 16 |
| 34. | Verifiable computing applications in blockchain \vSimuni\'c, Silvio and Bernaca, Dalen and Lenac, Kristijan. 2021. | 14 |
| 35. | Game theoretical framework for analyzing Blockchains Robustness Paolo Zappalà and Marianna Belotti and Maria Potop-Butucaru and Stefano Secci. 2020. | 12 |
| 36. | 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 |
| 37. | Payment Trees: Low Collateral Payments for Payment Channel Networks Maxim Jourenko and Mario Larangeira and Keisuke Tanaka. 2020. | 9 |
| 38. | Performance Overhead of Atomic Crosschain Transactions Robinson, Peter. 2020. | 8 |
| 39. | Atomic Swaps between Bitcoin and Monero Hoenisch, Philipp and del Pino, Lucas Soriano. 2021. | 8 |
| 40. | Deterministic witnesses for claim-first transactions Borkowski, Michael and Ritzer, Christoph and Schulte, Stefan. 2018. | 7 |
| 41. | Cross-Chain Payment Protocols with Success Guarantees van Glabbeek, Rob and Gramoli, Vincent and Tholoniat, Pierre. 2019. | 7 |
| 42. | Atomic Cross-Chain Swaps with Improved Space and Time Complexity Imoto, Soichiro and Sudo, Yuichi and Kakugawa, Hirotsugu and Masuzawa, Toshimitsu. 2019. | 6 |
| 43. | The Arwen Trading Protocols (Full Version) Ethan Heilman and Sebastien Lipmann and Sharon Goldberg. 2020. | 6 |
| 44. | Timelocked Bribing Nadahalli, Tejaswi and Khabbazian, Majid and Wattenhofer, Roger. 2021. | 5 |
| 45. | Blockchains as kripke models: An analysis of atomic cross-chain swap Hirai, Yoichi. 2018. | 5 |
| 46. | FastSwap: Concretely Efficient Contingent Payments for Complex Predicates Mathias Hall-Andersen. 2019. | 4 |
| 47. | Promise: Leveraging Future Gains for Collateral Reduction Dominik Harz and Lewis Gudgeon and Rami Khalil and Alexei Zamyatin. 2020. | 4 |
| 48. | JugglingSwap: Scriptless Atomic Cross-Chain Swaps Shlomovits, Omer and Leiba, Oded. 2020. | 4 |
| 49. | Layer 2 Atomic Cross-Blockchain Function Calls Robinson, Peter and Ramesh, Raghavendra. 2020. | 3 |
| 50. | 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. | 3 |
| 51. | Timelocked Bribes Majid Khabbazian and Tejaswi Nadahalli and Roger Wattenhofer. 2020. | 2 |
| 52. | TrustBoost: Boosting Trust among Interoperable Blockchains Wang, Xuechao and Sheng, Peiyao and Kannan, Sreeram and Nayak, Kartik and Viswanath, Pramod. 2022. | 2 |
| 53. | On the deployment of FlyClient as a velvet fork: chain-sewing attacks and countermeasures Tristan Nemoz and Alexei Zamyatin. 2021. | 1 |
| 54. | LightSwap: An Atomic Swap Does Not Require Timeouts At Both Blockchains Philipp Hoenisch and Subhra Mazumdar and Pedro Moreno-Sanchez and Sushmita Ruj. 2022. | 1 |
| 55. | 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 |
| 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. | Platypus: Offchain protocol without synchrony Ranchal-Pedrosa, Alejandro and Gramoli, Vincent. 2019. | 0 |
| 60. | Ping-Pong Swaps Grunspan, Cyril and Perez-Marco, Ricardo. 2022. | 0 |
| 61. | 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. | 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 |