Hyperledger - Cross-Chain State Modelling and Analysis

About the Organization

The emergence of blockchain interoperability is reducing the risk of investing in blockchain by avoiding vendor lock-in, leveraging interoperation with off-chain systems, and providing a truly open ecosystem, enabling a network of blockchains. In particular, in the technical report we wrote, we designed a survey aimed to understand the socio-technical challenges that blockchain interoperability poses, with the goal of offering a unique opportunity to link the underlying technology with human experience and values. We discovered that end-users are particularly concerned with visualizing and analyzing cross-chain cost and throughput, with some indication that measuring energetic expenditure in the cross-chain setting would also be valuable. Following that survey, we implemented a simple PoC that obtains transaction receipts from different blockchains and aggregates them in a unified repository. This project aims to build on top of what was done and create a cross-chain model (taking into account what end-users what to analyze from such model) automatically from input cross-chain transactions. This project will take a cross-chain use case, create a model and allow end-users to extract relevant metrics, promoting a better understatement of the business logic running on blockchain infrastructures, and of interoperability.