SBIR Phase I: A Microservices Approach To Low-Latency Process Interaction Through Distributed Ledgers

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The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)project is to make unique properties of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) widely available todevelopers. In doing so, the company will empower developers to create novel distributed services withtrustworthy and consistent shared state operations that will lead to more transparent businessand governance practices. In the Phase I tools will lead to new innovative meatdistribution businesses in Bozeman, MT. In the long term, we aim to build the fundamental toolsfor the growing ranks of blockchain developers, who need powerful and easy-to-integrate toolsthat access and manipulate DLT state. Ultimately, our suite of services will provide a unifiedinterface to multiple DLT implementations and facilitate the trustworthy exchange of sharedstate among different applications to create a wide and consistent view of world state.This SBIR Phase I project proposes to create an ecosystem of tools to operate on sharedapplication state stored on DLTs and to roll out these tools as they mature. The ultimate goal isto provide a unified API much like that of leading cloud service providers, which consists ofseveral incrementally introduced services.Specifically, the services planned to provide are:1. Blocky Valve - A JavaScript API that simplifies DLT read and write access.2. Blocky Pipes - A DLT data delivery microservice based on message queues connectedto Blocky Valve.3. Blocky Loading Ramp - A continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) serviceof smart contracts.4. Blocky Cement - An oracle service for exchanging data across DLTs usingconsensus-based provenance. Cement will also enable interaction between smartcontracts across different DLTs.5. Blocky Crates - A database-like query interface to data stored on DLTs. Crates will alsoenable smart contracts to interact with up-to-date shared application state stored onDLTs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.