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Comparison Framework for Blockchain Interoperability Implementations

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Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2022 Workshops (DEXA 2022)

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Abstract

Blockchain interoperability has gained importance in practice, is increasingly discussed in literature, and serves as basis for new use cases such as manufacturing and financial services. However, many of the blockchain interoperability solutions discussed in literature are still in the design phase, are unpopular or have a small developer community. Therefore, this study proposes a comparison framework and examines implemented public blockchain interoperability solutions, focusing on data from published GitHub repositories. The results show that these implementations vary significantly in terms of popularity, their developer communities as well as their source code, indicating differences in quality. The insights gained in this work facilitate the selection of an appropriate implementation to enable blockchain interoperability use cases.

This study was conducted as part of a co-operation project between ABC Research and Raiffeisenbank International, funded within the framework of the COMET centre ABC, by BMK, BMDW and the provinces of Vienna, Lower Austria and Vorarlberg. The COMET programme is managed by the FFG.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://github.com/.

  2. 2.

    https://github.com/search?q=type:user &type=Users, retrieved on May 11, 2022.

  3. 3.

    https://github.com/search?q=is:public, retrieved on May 11, 2022.

  4. 4.

    https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos.

  5. 5.

    https://github.com/paritytech.

  6. 6.

    https://github.com/0xProject/0x-mesh.

  7. 7.

    To retrieve the lines of code (LoC) the web tool codetabs was used; see https://codetabs.com/count-loc/count-loc-online.html.

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Neulinger, A. (2022). Comparison Framework for Blockchain Interoperability Implementations. In: Kotsis, G., et al. Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2022 Workshops. DEXA 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1633. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14343-4_29

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