How to reduce the liquidity requirements in Ark?
built timeout trees
Out of round payments
OOR Payments changes the trust model, as they rely on at least one paritcipant being honest and deleting the key (used to hold the pre-signed exit tree). https://arkdev.info/docs/learn/payments-oor That being said, normal Ark payment (using the so called Ruber shortcut) are already async. https://arkdev.info/docs/learn/payments
Payment in Ark are very similar to ecash, in the sense the Sender and ASP co-signing and delegating the recipient to claim the payment once it comes online, basically a self-transfer. If all the senders are also recipient, there is no online requirement. https://arkdev.info/docs/learn/payments