Skimping on Gas – Reducing Ethereum Transaction Costs in a Blockchain Electricity Market Application
Skimping on Gas – Reducing Ethereum Transaction Costs in a Blockchain Electricity Market Application
In recent years, information systems have not been largely evaluated by their operating costs, but mainly by their strategic benefit and competitive advantage. As blockchain-based decentralized applications become more commonplace, representing a shift towards fully consumption-based distributed computing, a new mode of thinking is required of developers, with meticulous attention to computational resource efficiency. This study improves on a blockchain application designed for conducting microtransactions of electricity in a nanogrid environment. By applying the design science research methodology, we improve the efficiency of the application’s smart contract by 11%, with further improvement opportunities identified. Despite the results, we find the efficiency remains inadequate for public Ethereum deployment. From the optimization process, we extrapolate a set of general guidelines for optimizing the efficiency of Ethereum smart contracts in any application.
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Sarja | Proceedings of 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |
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978-0-9981331-2-6 |
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