Blockchain

LeapChain: Efficient Blockchain Verification for Embedded IoT

One of the challenges of Blockchain is its linear growing size. Even light clients need to download and hash up to 40 MB of block headers for Bitcoin and up to 3 GB for Ethereum – too much for an embedded IoT device. As a remedy, we have created LeapChain, a Blockchain extension that allows to verify the inclusion and integrity of any block using only a logarithmic amount of block headers.