A Tree-Based Repository Blockchain Framework for Shared Governance in Collaborative Fork Ecosystems
For developers of collaborative blockchain ecosystems, this work proposes a novel structural approach to fork management, though it remains at the proof-of-concept stage without quantitative performance comparisons.
The paper introduces a tree-based repository blockchain framework that replaces Inter Blockchain Communication (IBC) for managing hard forks in collaborative ecosystems, enabling a single process to access all blocks. A proof-of-concept demonstrates depth-first search on the tree structure.
Collaborative blockchain ecosystems allow diverse groups to cooperate on tasks while providing properties such as decentralization and transaction security. We provide a model that uses a repository blockchain to manage hard forks within a collaborative system such that a single process (assuming that it has knowledge of the requirements of each fork) can access all of the blocks within the system. The repository blockchain replaces the need for Inter Blockchain Communication (IBC) within the ecosystem by navigating the networks. The resulting construction resembles a tree instead of a chain. A proof-of-concept implementation performs a depth-first search on the new structure.