Cross-Chain Bridge for Unified Blockchain Data Reading
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inconvenience when trying to read data from multiple independent blockchain networks, as they need to separately access each network, which is inefficient and cumbersome.
Innovation Solution
A method and system where a second-type blockchain network manages nodes across multiple first-type blockchain networks, allowing data to be stored and read by broadcasting transaction hashes and network identifiers, enabling data verification and retrieval through a single interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users access multiple independent blockchain networks separately to read data, then data reading completeness is improved, but operation complexity and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cross-chain bridge as an intermediary component that connects multiple independent blockchain networks. This bridge enables users to read data from any connected blockchain network through a unified interface, eliminating the need to access each network separately. The bridge translates and relays data requests across different chains, maintaining data reading completeness while significantly reducing operation complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The cross-chain bridge is designed with multi-functionality to handle various blockchain networks through a single unified interface. It can read data from multiple different blockchain networks simultaneously, providing universal access that improves ease of operation while ensuring complete data retrieval across all connected networks.
2Loss of information
If users access multiple independent blockchain networks separately to read data, then data reading completeness is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cross-chain bridge acts as a mediator that consolidates data reading operations. Instead of users sequentially accessing multiple blockchain networks which would consume significant time, the bridge handles all readings through parallel processing and optimized routing, maintaining complete data retrieval while dramatically reducing the time required.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing connections and data pathways between multiple blockchain networks through the cross-chain bridge. This preparation enables rapid data retrieval operations later, as the infrastructure for cross-network communication is already in place and optimized.
3Ease of operation
If a unified cross-chain bridge is introduced to read data from multiple blockchains, then ease of operation is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
While the cross-chain bridge does introduce an additional system component, it consolidates complexity into a single managed interface rather than requiring users to manage multiple network connections. The bridge encapsulates the complexity of inter-chain communication protocols, transaction formats, and network-specific operations, presenting a simplified unified interface to users.
Solution Approach 2:
The cross-chain bridge creates standardized copies and representations of data from different blockchain networks in a unified format. This copying mechanism allows the bridge to handle diverse blockchain data structures through consistent processing logic, managing system complexity through standardization rather than requiring complex adaptive handling of each network's unique characteristics.
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AI summary
Disclosed are methods and systems for reading data based on a plurality of blockchain networks. Data recorded in blockchains of at least two first-type blockchain networks is mapped to a blockchain of a second-type blockchain network. At least one node in each first-type blockchain network is managed by a designated manager, and at least one node in the second-type blockchain network is managed by the designated manager. Specifically, each first-type blockchain transaction constructed by any first-type blockchain network can also be obtained by the second-type blockchain network, and the second-type blockchain network writes a second-type blockchain transaction including a transaction hash of the obtained first-type blockchain transaction, into the blockchain of the second-type blockchain network.