Smart Contract Hash Verification for Blockchain Efficiency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current blockchain systems are wasteful due to massively replicated execution of smart contract code, leading to privacy loss as execution occurs on decrypted data, necessitating optimization for efficient processing.
Innovation Solution
The method involves identifying and processing smart contracts to create a smart contract definition, determining acceptance by parties, generating a hash, and forwarding it to blockchains, utilizing a smart contract processing engine that models contracts as passive deterministic finite automations and monitors events for state changes based on blockchain data and private communications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If smart contract code is massively replicated and executed on all blockchain nodes, then the system ensures decentralization and trust, but it causes waste of computational resources and loss of privacy due to execution on decrypted data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by generating and storing the hash of the smart contract definition before the contract is executed on the blockchain. This pre-computation of the hash allows the system to verify contract integrity without requiring all nodes to execute the full contract code, thereby reducing computational waste while maintaining decentralization and trust through hash verification.
2Reliability
If smart contract code is massively replicated and executed on all blockchain nodes, then the system ensures decentralization and trust, but it causes loss of privacy because execution has to happen on decrypted data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses copying by storing and verifying the hash of the smart contract definition instead of requiring all nodes to hold and execute copies of the actual contract code. This allows the system to maintain decentralization through hash verification while preventing privacy loss, as the decrypted contract data is not unnecessarily replicated and executed across all nodes.
3Reliability
If smart contract code is massively replicated and executed on all blockchain nodes, then the system ensures comprehensive verification, but it reduces processing efficiency and increases operational complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential verification element (the hash of the smart contract definition) from the full contract code and stores it on the blockchain. This allows nodes to verify contract integrity by checking the hash without executing the entire contract, thereby maintaining comprehensive verification while significantly improving processing efficiency by eliminating unnecessary code execution.
4Reliability
If smart contract code is massively replicated and executed on all blockchain nodes, then the system ensures thorough contract validation, but it increases device complexity and operational overhead
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses copying by replacing the need for all nodes to store and execute complex smart contract code with a simple hash verification mechanism. The hash of the contract definition is stored on the blockchain, and nodes only need to verify this hash against their local copies, thereby reducing device complexity and operational overhead while maintaining thorough validation through hash-based integrity checking.
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AI summary
An example operation may include one or more of identifying a smart contract, processing the smart contract to create a smart contract definition, determining whether the smart contract has been accepted by identified parties, when the smart contract has been accepted by the identified parties, generating a smart contract definition hash, and forwarding the smart contract definition hash to one or more blockchains.