Split-Join: A Blockchain Framework for Improving Scalability and Performance

Blockchain technology has proven its capability to secure data robustly and reliably, most enterprises are ready to move into blockchain due to its unique characteristics, and many researchers are contributing to improve the technology day by day, but still, there are performance and scalability issues need to be addressed in a better way, so that it can serve the globe by removing intermediaries and bringing the transparency and immutability. In this work, a split-join framework is proposed to improve the scalability and performance of the blockchain technology while maintaining the overall blockchain principles valid and allowing the parallel processing of the blocks efficiently through nonlinear principles, which offer efficient load balancing while processing the transactions. It aims to improve the performance and scalability aspects of blockchain. The proposed framework shows significant improvements in scalability and throughput; the number of parallel blocks processed increases with respect to split-chain length, resulting in higher throughput.