Cross-chain Oracle Based Data Migration Mechanism in Heterogeneous Blockchains

Abstract

As things currently stand, the blockchain industry is siloed among many different platforms and protocols resulting in various islands of blockchains. Restrictions regarding assets transfers and data migration between different blockchains reduce the usability and comfort of users, and hinder novel developments within the blockchain ecosystem. Interoperability will be the main topics of next-generation blockchain technologies. In this paper, we focus on how to enable interoperability between two heterogeneous blockchains in the context of data migration. We first build an cross-chain data migration architecture based on data migration oracle. Second, we design a data migration mechanism based on former architecture. By employing the proposed data migration architecture, it is equivalent to opening a secure channel between two heterogeneous blockchains allowing secure data migration. By applying data migration mechanism, the confidentiality, integrity and security of migrated data can be well guaranteed.