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Inter-family Communication in Hyperledger Sawtooth and Its Application to a Crypto-Asset Framework

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Hyperledger Sawtooth is a general purpose blockchain project featuring pluggable consensus mechanisms and smart contracts that can be written in any general purpose programming language. We introduce a design pattern that enables communication between smart contracts for Hyperledger Sawtooth. The pattern is called Inter-Family Communication and we apply it to build a general crypto-asset framework where assets can be controlled by secondary smart contracts. The pattern is designed secure with formal models for Hyperledger Sawtooth and relevant concepts to the Inter-family Communication design pattern.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    e.g. trusted executed environments, consensus mechanisms, public key infrastructure, certificate authorities, private channels, etc.

  2. 2.

    Portions of this work is patent pending.

  3. 3.

    In Sawtooth 1.0, there is an onchain setting to list the namespaces for transaction families. The validator interprets these namespaces as write access control and does not limit the read access.

  4. 4.

    Proof-of-Elapsed-Time, batch, input-output prefixes and nonce in transactions, state-delta events, dependencies, etc.

  5. 5.

    All results presented extend trivially to families with multiple reserved namespaces; however, focusing on a single namespace simplifies our presentation.

  6. 6.

    For a definition of the Shuffle Product see any textbook on Automata Theory or Theory of Computation.

  7. 7.

    The functions \(applyt^{\prime }()\) and applyb() are straightforwardly updated according to different read and write namespaces.

  8. 8.

    The nonce is used here to prevent replay attacks and is intended to be negotiated offchain among users, ideally by having all parties contribute to its elaboration.

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    Luke Owens, Benoit Razet, W. Bryan Smith & Theodore C. Tanner Jr.

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  2. Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India

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Owens, L., Razet, B., Smith, W.B., Tanner, T.C. (2019). Inter-family Communication in Hyperledger Sawtooth and Its Application to a Crypto-Asset Framework. In: Fahrnberger, G., Gopinathan, S., Parida, L. (eds) Distributed Computing and Internet Technology. ICDCIT 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11319. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05366-6_32

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