Xilinx, Inc.

Haris Javaid

Gordon John Brebner

Ji Yang

Sundararajarao Mohan

Chengchen Hu

Guanwen Zhong

Embodiments herein describe a hardware accelerator for a blockchain node. The hardware accelerator is used to perform a validation operation to validate one or more transactions before those transactions are committed to a ledger of a blockchain. The blockchain may include multiple peer-nodes, each of which contains standard software running on a server or container. Instead of validating a block of transactions using software, the hardware accelerator can validate the transactions in a fraction of the time. The peer-node software then gathers the validation results from the hardware accelerator and combines the results with received block data to derive the block which is committed to the stored ledger.

Blockchain machine compute acceleration engine with a block verify and a block validate

Embodiments herein describe a hardware accelerator (e.g., a network acceleration engine) for a blockchain machine or node. The hardware accelerator parses packets containing separate components of a block of transactions to generate data to perform a validation process. To avoid the latency that comes with using software, the embodiments herein describe a protocol processor in the hardware accelerator that parses the packets and prepares the data so it can be consumed by downstream components in the accelerator without software intervention. These downstream components can then perform a validation operation to validate one or more transactions before those transactions are committed (i.e., added) to a ledger of a permissioned blockchain.

Blockchain machine network acceleration engine

Mining proxy acceleration may include receiving, within a mining proxy, packetized data from a mining pool server and determining, using the mining proxy, whether the packetized data qualifies for broadcast processing. In response to determining that the packetized data qualifies for broadcast processing, the packetized data can be modified using the mining proxy to generate broadcast data. The broadcast data can be broadcast, using the mining proxy, to a plurality of miners subscribed to the mining proxy.

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