Distributed software architecture for accessing the NFT-Vehicle

Autor: Juan-Carlos López-Pimentel, Luis Alberto Morales-Rosales, Carolina Del-Valle-Soto, José Alberto Del Puerto-Flores
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: SoftwareX, Vol 27, Iss , Pp 101820- (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2352-7110
DOI: 10.1016/j.softx.2024.101820
Popis: Smart contracts have gained significant attention in the software development community because they are the mechanism for building blockchain applications. This work provides a distributed software architecture and an implementation for accessing a smart contract, called NFT-Vehicle, implemented on the Ethereum blockchain platform. The main idea behind NFT-Vehicle is the digitization process of a motorized vehicle in a digital asset. The architecture outlines two security protocols, one from the stakeholders who connect towards the back-end, and the other internally. The back-end includes mainly two parts: an API-gateway and the smart contract located in a blockchain. We report the acquired experiences and a list of identified errors found during the unit tests that are difficult to notice with simple requests. Our solution can be used as a base for real implementations of tokenizing physical cars into digital assets.
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