The StakeCube blockchain: Instantiation, Evaluation & Applications

Antoine Durand; Guillaume Hebert; Khalifa Toumi; Gerard Memmi; Emmanuelle Anceaume

doi:10.1109/BCCA50787.2020.9274084

The StakeCube blockchain: Instantiation, Evaluation & Applications

Antoine Durand
, Guillaume Hebert
, Khalifa Toumi
, Gerard Memmi
, Emmanuelle Anceaume

Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Atos
IRT SystemX
Centre national de la recherche scientifique

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Abstract

Blockchains have seen a recent rise in popularity as a generic solution for trustless distributed applications across a wide range of industries. However, blockchain protocols have faced scalability issues in applications involving a growing number of participants. In this paper we instantiate and evaluate StakeCube, a proposal for a scalable shard-based distributed ledger. We further detail and tune a byzantine agreement algorithm suited for StakeCube's sharding structure, and we experimentally study and asses its performance, especially regarding scalability. We were successfully able to run StakeCube with up to 5000 participants, confirming up to 1100 bytes/s of transaction, with a confirmation time starting at 200 seconds. Finally, we use StakeCube in a large scale energy marketplace application, and show that a node running on a Raspberry Pi Zero is able to handle the load without issues.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020
Editors	Mohammad Alsmirat, Yaser Jararweh, Moayad Aloqaily, Oznur Ozkasap
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	9-15
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728183701
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BCCA50787.2020.9274084
Publication status	Published - 2 Nov 2020
Event	2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020 - Virtual, Antalya, Turkey Duration: 2 Nov 2020 → 5 Nov 2020

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Name	2020 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020

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Conference	2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020
Country/Territory	Turkey
City	Virtual, Antalya
Period	2/11/20 → 5/11/20

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Proof-of-Stake
application
benchmarking
blockchain
scalability
sharding
smart grid

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Durand, A., Hebert, G., Toumi, K., Memmi, G., & Anceaume, E. (2020). The StakeCube blockchain: Instantiation, Evaluation & Applications. In M. Alsmirat, Y. Jararweh, M. Aloqaily, & O. Ozkasap (Eds.), 2020 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020 (pp. 9-15). Article 9274084 (2020 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/BCCA50787.2020.9274084

Durand, Antoine ; Hebert, Guillaume ; Toumi, Khalifa et al. / The StakeCube blockchain : Instantiation, Evaluation & Applications. 2020 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020. editor / Mohammad Alsmirat ; Yaser Jararweh ; Moayad Aloqaily ; Oznur Ozkasap. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020. pp. 9-15 (2020 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020).

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Durand, A, Hebert, G, Toumi, K, Memmi, G & Anceaume, E 2020, The StakeCube blockchain: Instantiation, Evaluation & Applications. in M Alsmirat, Y Jararweh, M Aloqaily & O Ozkasap (eds), 2020 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020., 9274084, 2020 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 9-15, 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020, Virtual, Antalya, Turkey, 2/11/20. https://doi.org/10.1109/BCCA50787.2020.9274084

The StakeCube blockchain: Instantiation, Evaluation & Applications. / Durand, Antoine; Hebert, Guillaume; Toumi, Khalifa et al.
2020 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020. ed. / Mohammad Alsmirat; Yaser Jararweh; Moayad Aloqaily; Oznur Ozkasap. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020. p. 9-15 9274084 (2020 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020).

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Durand A, Hebert G, Toumi K, Memmi G, Anceaume E. The StakeCube blockchain: Instantiation, Evaluation & Applications. In Alsmirat M, Jararweh Y, Aloqaily M, Ozkasap O, editors, 2020 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2020. p. 9-15. 9274084. (2020 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, BCCA 2020). doi: 10.1109/BCCA50787.2020.9274084

The StakeCube blockchain: Instantiation, Evaluation & Applications

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