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arXiv 2002.117712020-02-26cs.DBcs.DC

Distributed Cross-Blockchain Transactions

Dongfang Zhao, Tonglin Li

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The interoperability across multiple or many blockchains would play a critical role in the forthcoming blockchain-based data management paradigm. In particular, how to ensure the ACID properties of those transactions across an arbitrary number of blockchains remains an open problem in both academic and industry: Existing solutions either work for only two blockchains or requires a centralized component, neither of which would meet the scalability requirement in practice. This short paper shares our vision and some early results toward scalable cross-blockchain transactions. Specifically, we design two distributed commit protocols and, both analytically and experimentally, demonstrate their effectiveness.

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