Hyperledger Fabric: A Distributed Operating System for Permissioned Blockchains

Elli Androulaki; Artem Barger; Vita Bortnikov; Srinivasan Muralidharan; Christian Cachin; Konstantinos Christidis; Angelo De Caro; David Enyeart; Chet Murthy; Christopher Ferris; Gennady Laventman; Yacov Manevich; Binh Nguyen; Manish Sethi; Gari Singh; Keith Smith; Alessandro Sorniotti; Chrysoula Stathakopoulou; Marko Vukolić; Sharon Weed Cocco; Jason Yellick

doi:10.1145/3190508.3190538

Hyperledger Fabric: A Distributed Operating System for Permissioned Blockchains

Elli Androulaki, Artem Barger, Vita Bortnikov, Srinivasan Muralidharan, Christian Cachin, Konstantinos Christidis, Angelo De Caro, David Enyeart, Chet Murthy, Christopher Ferris, Gennady Laventman, Yacov Manevich, Binh Nguyen, Manish Sethi, Gari Singh, Keith Smith, Alessandro Sorniotti, Chrysoula Stathakopoulou, Marko Vukolić, Sharon Weed CoccoJason Yellick

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Abstract

Fabric is a modular and extensible open-source system for deploying and operating permissioned blockchains and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by the Linux Foundation (www.hyperledger.org). Fabric is the first truly extensible blockchain system for running distributed applications. It supports modular consensus protocols, which allows the system to be tailored to particular use cases and trust models. Fabric is also the first blockchain system that runs distributed applications written in standard, general-purpose programming languages, without systemic dependency on a native cryptocurrency. This stands in sharp contrast to existing blockchain platforms that require “smart-contracts” to be written in domain-specific languages or rely on a cryptocurrency. Fabric realizes the permissioned model using a portable notion of membership, which may be integrated with industry-standard identity management. To support such flexibility, Fabric introduces an entirely novel blockchain design and revamps the way blockchains cope with non-determinism, resource exhaustion, and performance attacks. This paper describes Fabric, its architecture, the rationale behind various design decisions, its most prominent implementation aspects, as well as its distributed application programming model. We further evaluate Fabric by implementing and benchmarking a Bitcoin-inspired digital currency. We show that Fabric achieves end-to-end throughput of more than 3500 transactions per second in certain popular deployment configurations, with sub-second latency, scaling well to over 100 peers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450355841
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3190508.3190538
State	Published - 23 Apr 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018 - Porto, Portugal Duration: 23 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018

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Name	Proceedings of the 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018
Volume	2018-January

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Conference	13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Porto
Period	23/04/18 → 26/04/18

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Computer Networks and Communications

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Androulaki, E., Barger, A., Bortnikov, V., Muralidharan, S., Cachin, C., Christidis, K., De Caro, A., Enyeart, D., Murthy, C., Ferris, C., Laventman, G., Manevich, Y., Nguyen, B., Sethi, M., Singh, G., Smith, K., Sorniotti, A., Stathakopoulou, C., Vukolić, M., ... Yellick, J. (2018). Hyperledger Fabric: A Distributed Operating System for Permissioned Blockchains. In Proceedings of the 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018 (Proceedings of the 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018; Vol. 2018-January). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3190508.3190538

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Hyperledger Fabric: A Distributed Operating System for Permissioned Blockchains. / Androulaki, Elli; Barger, Artem; Bortnikov, Vita et al.
Proceedings of the 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2018. (Proceedings of the 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018; Vol. 2018-January).

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