Blockchain Abstraction API for Cross-Platform Smart Contract Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Developers face difficulties in deploying and managing smart contracts across different blockchain platforms due to varying requirements and complexities, including determining the optimal platform, compiling smart contracts, and managing addresses and operations, which is time-consuming and requires extensive knowledge of each platform.
Innovation Solution
A smart contract blockchain abstraction API (BAAPI) that automatically determines the optimal blockchain platform for deployment based on smart contract code language and other factors, compiles the contract, manages addresses, and facilitates interactions, providing a unified interface for developers to deploy and manage smart contracts across multiple platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If developers manually deploy smart contracts on each blockchain platform, then they can control the deployment process, but it requires extensive knowledge of each platform and is time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a blockchain abstraction API as an intermediary layer between developers and multiple blockchain platforms. This API handles the complexity of platform-specific requirements, compilation, and deployment automatically, allowing developers to interact with multiple blockchains through a unified interface without needing to understand each platform's specifics
Solution Approach 2:
The blockchain abstraction API provides universal functionality across different blockchain platforms. A single API implementation can deploy smart contracts on Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, and other platforms by automatically detecting the target platform and adapting the deployment process, eliminating the need for separate deployment tools for each blockchain
2Productivity
If developers manually determine optimal blockchain platforms, then they can select the best fit, but it requires analyzing code language compatibility and is time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting the programming language of the smart contract code and pre-determining the optimal blockchain platform before deployment. The API analyzes the code language compatibility with different platforms and selects the best match automatically, eliminating manual analysis time
Solution Approach 2:
The blockchain abstraction API incorporates feedback mechanisms where the system detects the code language, queries platform compatibility information, and uses this feedback to automatically determine the optimal deployment platform. This closed-loop process ensures the fastest possible platform selection without manual intervention
3Reliability
If developers manage addresses manually across platforms, then they can track contracts, but it requires remembering multiple address formats and is error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The blockchain abstraction API acts as an intermediary that automatically manages addresses across different platforms. It translates between platform-specific address formats and a unified internal representation, handling address generation, storage, and retrieval automatically without requiring developers to manually track or remember different address formats
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter representation of addresses by normalizing different blockchain address formats into a consistent internal structure. The API automatically converts between Ethereum's hex-based addresses, Hyperledger's different address formats, and other platform-specific formats, allowing developers to work with a single standardized address type across all platforms
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AI summary
A method includes detecting, based on examining a smart contract code, a code language of the smart contract code. Each of a plurality of code languages is associated with at least one of a plurality of blockchain platforms. The method further includes determining, based on the code language, two or more blockchain platforms of the plurality of blockchain platforms as potential selected blockchain platforms to deploy a smart contract of the smart contract code onto. The smart contract code is written in the detected code language capable of being deployed onto the two or more blockchain platforms. The method further includes determining a selected blockchain platform of the two or more blockchain platforms based at least partially on the code language and at least one of an owner address or a cost of deploying the smart contract code, and deploying the smart contract code to the selected blockchain platform.