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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2022
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Qiben Yan, East Lansing, MI (US);
Nikolay Ivanov, East Lansing, MI (US);
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, East Lansing, MI (US);
Abstract
Blockchain-based systems for processing transactions (including, for example, smart contract platforms) are resource intensive and lack sufficient flexibility and scalability. A new framework is disclosed herein, which allows for scalable and flexible deployment of a new class of smart contracts. In some embodiments, transactions according to a given smart contract are processed via a centralized consortium of cells (e.g., cloud nodes) via a consensus overlay method. The cells may confirm results of performing a transaction or set of transactions on a periodic basis, which may be done by fingerprinting the data state for participating smart contracts. This fingerprint can then be stored via a Blockchain method, and verified.