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

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是使分布式分类帐技术(DLT)的独特属性广泛地提供给开发人员。通过这样做，该公司将使开发人员能够创建具有可信和一致的共享状态操作的新型分布式服务，这将导致更透明的业务和治理实践。在第一阶段的工具将导致新的创新肉类分销业务在博兹曼，密苏里州。从长远来看，我们的目标是为越来越多的区块链开发人员构建基本工具，他们需要强大且易于集成的工具来访问和操纵DLT状态。最终，我们的服务套件将为多个DLT实施提供统一的接口，并促进不同应用程序之间共享状态的可信交换，以创建广泛且一致的世界状态视图。这个SBIR第一阶段项目建议创建一个工具生态系统，以操作存储在DLT上的共享应用程序状态，并在它们成熟时推出这些工具。最终目标是提供一个类似于领先的云服务提供商的统一API，它由几个逐步引入的服务组成。具体地说，计划提供的服务包括：1.块阀-一种简化DLT读写访问的Java API。阻塞管道--一种基于连接到阻塞阀的消息队列的DLT数据传递微服务。批量加载坡道--智能合同的持续集成和持续交付(CI/CD)服务。BLOCKY Cement--这是一项甲骨文服务，用于使用基于共识的起源跨DLT交换数据。水泥还将实现跨不同DLT的智能合约之间的交互。块状板条箱--对存储在DLT上的数据进行类似数据库的查询接口。CRATES还将使智能合同能够与存储在DLT上的最新共享应用程序状态进行交互。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已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。

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.