SBIR Phase I: BlockReduce: Scaling Public Blockchains for Enterprise Applications

SBIR 第一阶段：BlockReduce：扩展企业应用程序的公共区块链

• 批准号: 1914236
• 负责人: Karl Kreder
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Saltare Systems LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1914236&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; BlockReduce; Scaling; Public

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to transform the manner in which people and entities engage in transfer of value. In our current economy, many businesses operate as middlemen between the producer of a good or service and the consumer of that good or service. Examples of such businesses can be categorized as financial services, exchange services, and regulated utilities. These intermediaries create a large inefficiency on producers, consumers, and the economy as a whole. Many of these businesses can be replaced partly or in whole by open source public blockchains. Over time, open-source public blockchains will competitively evolve to deliver the highest economic value for all market participants at the lowest cost. Although blockchain technology has enormous promise to positively impact society, current public blockchains have not been able to scale sufficiently to meet the needs of most enterprise applications.This SBIR Phase I project proposes to develop BlockReduce: a scalable, trustless, public blockchain for enterprise applications. BlockReduce presents a new blockchain topology to offer 3+ orders of magnitude improvement in transaction throughput while avoiding the introduction of hierarchical power structures and centralization. Additionally, BlockReduce is able to provide low-cost transactions with stable fees, which is key to enabling countless enterprise applications. By answering the issues of scale, cost, and access to public blockchains, BlockReduce will be the catalyst for enterprises moving from proof-of-concept (PoC) blockchain demonstrations to full scale deployments. If successful, BlockReduce could serve as fundamental infrastructure for digital value exchanges much like ethernet was technological infrastructure for digital information exchange.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.

小型企业创新研究(SBIR)项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是改变个人和实体参与价值转移的方式。在我们当前的经济中，许多企业在商品或服务的生产者和消费者之间扮演中间人的角色。此类业务的例子可以归类为金融服务、交易所服务和受监管的公用事业。这些中介机构对生产者、消费者和整个经济造成了极大的低效。其中许多业务可以部分或全部被开源公共区块链取代。随着时间的推移，开源公共区块链将以竞争性的方式发展，以最低的成本为所有市场参与者提供最高的经济价值。尽管区块链技术具有积极影响社会的巨大前景，但目前的公共区块链还不能足够的规模来满足大多数企业应用的需求。这个SBIR第一阶段项目建议开发BlockReduce：一种可扩展的、不可信任的企业应用公共区块链。BlockReduce提出了一种新的区块链拓扑结构，在避免引入分层权力结构和集中化的同时，将交易吞吐量提高了3+个数量级。此外，BlockReduce能够以稳定的费用提供低成本交易，这是启用无数企业应用程序的关键。通过回答规模、成本和访问公共区块链的问题，BlockReduce将成为企业从概念验证(PoC)区块链演示转向全面部署的催化剂。如果成功，BlockReduce可以作为数字价值交换的基本基础设施，就像以太网是数字信息交换的技术基础设施一样。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。