The Flexible Interledger Bridge Design

Lei Wu; Yki Kortesniemi; Dmitrij Lagutin; Maryam Pahlevan

doi:10.1109/BRAINS52497.2021.9569798

The Flexible Interledger Bridge Design

Lei Wu, Yki Kortesniemi, Dmitrij Lagutin, Maryam Pahlevan

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Abstract

In recent years, multiple distributed ledger technologies with different strengths and weaknesses have been introduced. This makes them better suited for different use cases, but it also makes interactions between the ledgers more difficult. Interledger technologies try to bridge this gap, but often suffer from obvious limitations: a large portion of the solutions addresses only value exchanges or transfers, others have restrictive assumptions about the ledgers, and some require separate relaying blockchains. This paper introduces the Flexible Interledger Bridge (FIB) design that supports a wide range of use cases and ledger types without requiring any changes to the ledgers themselves. An evaluation of the reference implementation shows it to be a lightweight solution that enables atomic data transfers between two ledgers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 3rd Conference on Blockchain Research and Applications for Innovative Networks and Services, BRAINS 2021
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	69-72
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-3924-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BRAINS52497.2021.9569798
Publication status	Published - 25 Oct 2021
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	Conference on Blockchain Research and Applications for Innovative Networks and Services - Virtual, online, Paris, France Duration: 27 Sept 2021 → 30 Sept 2021 Conference number: 3 https://brains.dnac.org/

Conference

Conference	Conference on Blockchain Research and Applications for Innovative Networks and Services
Abbreviated title	BRAINS
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	27/09/2021 → 30/09/2021
Internet address	https://brains.dnac.org/

Keywords

atomic transactions
bridging
Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs)
Interledger
smart contracts

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Wu, L, Kortesniemi, Y, Lagutin, D & Pahlevan, M 2021, The Flexible Interledger Bridge Design. in Proceedings of 3rd Conference on Blockchain Research and Applications for Innovative Networks and Services, BRAINS 2021. IEEE, pp. 69-72, Conference on Blockchain Research and Applications for Innovative Networks and Services, Paris, France, 27/09/2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/BRAINS52497.2021.9569798

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