Journal of Digital Convergence (디지털융복합연구)

The Society of Digital Policy and Management (한국디지털정책학회)
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The Design and Development of a Onchain Game for Scalability Verification of Blockchain Platform

블록체인 플랫폼의 성능 및 확장성 검증을 위한 온체인 게임 설계 및 개발

  • Jang, Kwang-Soo (Dept. of Information System, Hanyang University) ;
  • Lee, Ook (Dept. of Information System, Hanyang University)
  • 장광수 (한양대학교 일반대학원 정보시스템공학전공) ;
  • 이욱 (한양대학교 일반대학원 정보시스템공학전공)
  • Received : 2020.09.18
  • Accepted : 2020.10.20
  • Published : 2020.10.28
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Abstract

Since the birth of the Ethereum in 2015, various decentralized applications (DApp) based on blockchain smart contract technology have appeared. However, CryptoKitty's case showed instability in terms of performance and scalability in real-world service environments. To solve this, a blockchain platform that developed a high transaction per second (TPS) has appeared, but there have been no environments and services to test it. Therefore, this paper intends to design and develop a game that can record the contents of all games on the chain and verify the performance and scalability of the blockchain platform through oversized transactions. The developed game generated a total of 6.3 million blocks and 8.9 million transactions through by 682 and verified the improved performance and scalability of the existing platform. Additionally, the maximum TPS was measured at 1,309 during the test period. In the future, it is expected that performance and scalability can be compared in a realistic environment through the method presented in this paper.

2015년 이더리움 탄생 이후 많은 블록체인 DApp들이 등장하였다. 그러나 블록체인 게임 크립토키티의 사례에서 블록체인 플랫폼의 성능 및 확장성의 한계 또한 드러났다. 이를 해결하기 위해 높은 TPS(Transaction per second)를 개발하였다는 블록체인 플랫폼이 등장하였지만 아직까지 실제 이를 테스트해볼 수 있는 환경 및 서비스는 등장하지 못했다. 이에 본 논문에서는 모든 게임 내용을 체인 상에 기재하여 의도적으로 과대화된 Transaction의 발생을 유발하는 게임을 설계하고 개발하였다. 개발된 게임은 총 682명의 사용자를 통해 총 630만개의 블록과 890만개의 Transaction을 발생시켜 기존 플랫폼 대비 개선된 성능과 확장성을 검증할 수 있었다. 또한 테스트 기간 내의 최대 TPS는 1,309로 측정되었다. 향후 다양한 블록체인 플랫폼들에서 본 논문에서 제시한 방법으로 블록 및 Transaction 생성 수와 최대 TPS를 측정한다면 각 블록체인 플랫폼의 실제 상용 환경에서의 성능과 확장성을 비교할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

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