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Cross-Chain Smart Contract Invocations: a systematic multi-vocal literature review

  • 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.

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Author of HS ReutlingenBreitenbücher, Uwe
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3638045
ISSN:0360-0300
Erschienen in:ACM computing surveys : CSUR
Publisher:Association for Computing Machinery
Place of publication:New York
Document Type:Journal article
Language:English
Publication year:2024
Tag:blockchains; cross chain; cross ledger; interoperability; multi chain; smart contract
Volume:56
Issue:6
Page Number:38
First Page:1
Last Page:38
Article Number:142
PPN:Im Katalog der Hochschule Reutlingen ansehen
DDC classes:004 Informatik
Open access?:Nein
Licence (German):License Logo  In Copyright - Urheberrechtlich geschützt