On-chain governance of blockchain
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMeeta Vouk, Gari Singh, Jason K. Yellick, Gennaro A. Cuomo
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Abstract
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to commit a blockchain request to a hash-linked chain of blocks stored on a distributed ledger, extracting governance policies which are encoded within a data block of the hash-linked chain of blocks on the distributed ledger, determining if the blockchain request satisfies the extracted governance policies of the hash-linked chain of blocks on the distributed ledger, and in response to the blockchain request satisfying the extracted governance policies, executing the blockchain request and storing the executed blockchain request within another data block of the hash-linked chain of data blocks on the distributed ledger.
Claims20
A computing system comprising:
- a network interface configured to receive a request to commit a blockchain request to a distributed ledger;
- and
- a processor configured to extract governance policies from a data block previously stored on a blockchain on the distributed ledger, where the governance policies have been previously agreed to by a plurality of blockchain peers that store the blockchain, determine if the blockchain request satisfies the extracted governance policies, and, in response to successful satisfaction of the extracted governance policies, execute and store the blockchain request within another data block of blockchain.
A method comprising:
- receiving a request to commit a blockchain request to a distributed ledger;
- extracting governance policies from a data block previously stored on a blockchain on the distributed ledger, where the governance policies have been previously agreed to by a plurality of blockchain peers that store the blockchain;
- determining if the blockchain request satisfies the extracted governance policies;
- and
- in response to the blockchain request satisfying the extracted governance policies, executing and storing the blockchain request within another data block of the blockchain.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, that when read by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
- receiving a request to commit a blockchain request to a distributed ledger;
- extracting governance policies from a data block previously stored on a blockchain on the distributed ledger, where the governance policies have been previously agreed to by a plurality of blockchain peers that store the blockchain;
- determining if the blockchain request satisfies the extracted governance policies;
- and
- in response to the blockchain request satisfying the extracted governance policies, executing and storing the blockchain request within another data block of blockchain.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.