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A Survey on Blockchain Interoperability: Past, Present, and Future Trends
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Blockchain interoperability is emerging as one of the crucial features of blockchain technology, but the knowledge necessary for achieving it is fragmented. This fact makes it challenging for academics and the industry to achieve interoperability among blockchains seamlessly. Given this new domain’s novelty and potential, we conduct a literature review on blockchain interoperability by collecting 284 papers and 120 grey literature documents, constituting a corpus of 404 documents. From those 404 documents, we systematically analyzed and discussed 102 documents, including peer-reviewed papers and grey literature. Our review classifies studies in three categories: Public Connectors, Blockchain of Blockchains, and Hybrid Connectors. Each category is further divided into sub-categories based on defined criteria. We classify 67 existing solutions in one sub-category using the Blockchain Interoperability Framework, providing a holistic overview of blockchain interoperability. Our findings show that blockchain interoperability has a much broader spectrum than cryptocurrencies and cross-chain asset transfers. Finally, this article discusses supporting technologies, standards, use cases, open challenges, and future research directions, paving the way for research in the area.
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- Authors
- Belchior, R., Vasconcelos, A., Guerreiro, S., & Correia, M.
- Venue
- ACM Computing Surveys
- Published
- 2021-10-04
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1-41
- ISSN
- 0360-0300 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7341
- OpenAlex
- W3029616339
- Cited by
- 757
- References
- 8
- FWCI
- 106.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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