TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Falazi, Ghareeb
A1  - Breitenbücher, Uwe
A1  - Leymann, Frank
A1  - Schulte, Stefan
T1  - Cross-Chain Smart Contract Invocations: a systematic multi-vocal literature review
JF  - ACM computing surveys : CSUR
N2  - The introduction of smart contracts has expanded the applicability of blockchains to many domains beyond finance and cryptocurrencies. Moreover, different blockchain technologies have evolved that target special requirements. As a result, in practice, often a combination of different blockchain systems is required to achieve an overall goal. However, due to the heterogeneity of blockchain protocols, the execution of distributed business transactions that span several blockchains leads to multiple interoperability and integration challenges. Therefore, in this article, we examine the domain of Cross-Chain Smart Contract Invocations (CCSCIs), which are distributed transactions that involve the invocation of smart contracts hosted on two or more blockchain systems. We conduct a systematic multi-vocal literature review to get an overview of the available CCSCI approaches. We select 20 formal literature studies and 13 high-quality gray literature studies, extract data from them, and analyze it to derive the CCSCI Classification Framework. With the help of the framework, we group the approaches into two categories and eight subcategories. The approaches differ in multiple characteristics, e.g., the mechanisms they follow, and the capabilities and transaction processing semantics they offer. Our analysis indicates that all approaches suffer from obstacles that complicate real-world adoption, such as the low support for handling heterogeneity and the need for trusted third parties.
KW  - blockchains
KW  - smart contract
KW  - interoperability
KW  - cross chain
KW  - cross ledger
KW  - multi chain
Y1  - 2024
SN  - 0360-0300
SS  - 0360-0300
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3638045
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3638045
VL  - 56
IS  - 6
SP  - 1
EP  - 38
S1  - 38
PB  - Association for Computing Machinery
CY  - New York
ER  -