Towards External Calls for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
2021-05-26 v2 Cryptography and Security
Abstract
It is widely accepted that blockchain systems cannot execute calls to external systems or services due to each node having to reach a deterministic state. However, in this paper we show that this belief is preconceived by demonstrating a method that enables blockchain and distributed ledger technologies to perform calls to external systems initiated from the blockchain/DLT itself.
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@article{arxiv.2105.10399,
title = {Towards External Calls for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology},
author = {Joshua Ellul and Gordon J. Pace},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.10399},
year = {2021}
}