Application of Hybrid Chain Storage Framework in Energy Trading and Carbon Asset Management
This work addresses settlement inefficiencies for energy and carbon trading systems, though it appears incremental as it combines existing on-chain and off-chain approaches.
The paper tackles the problem of high-cost on-chain and unverifiable off-chain settlements in distributed energy trading and carbon asset management by proposing a hybrid framework, which reduces on-chain execution and storage costs while maintaining audit trustworthiness.
Distributed energy trading and carbon asset management involve high-frequency, small-value settlements with strong audit requirements. Fully on-chain designs incur excessive cost, while purely off-chain approaches lack verifiable consistency. This paper presents a hybrid on-chain and off-chain settlement framework that anchors settlement commitments and key constraints on-chain and links off-chain records through deterministic digests and replayable auditing. Experiments under publicly constrained workloads show that the framework significantly reduces on-chain execution and storage cost while preserving audit trustworthiness.