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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.8.2.16
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162149
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2022/16214/
Richter, David ;
Kretzler, David ;
Weisenburger, Pascal ;
Salvaneschi, Guido ;
Faust, Sebastian ;
Mezini, Mira
Prisma: A Tierless Language for Enforcing Contract-Client Protocols in Decentralized Applications (Artifact)
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Abstract
Decentralized applications (dApps) consist of smart contracts that run on blockchains and clients that model collaborating parties. dApps are used to model financial and legal business functionality. Today, contracts and clients are written as separate programs - in different programming languages - communicating via send and receive operations. This makes distributed program flow awkward to express and reason about, increasing the potential for mismatches in the client-contract interface, which can be exploited by malicious clients, potentially leading to huge financial losses. In this paper, we present Prisma, a language for tierless decentralized applications, where the contract and its clients are defined in one unit. Pairs of send and receive actions that “belong together” are encapsulated into a single direct-style operation, which is executed differently by sending and receiving parties. This enables expressing distributed program flow via standard control flow and renders mismatching communication impossible. We prove formally that our compiler preserves program behavior in presence of an attacker controlling the client code. We systematically compare Prisma with mainstream and advanced programming models for dApps and provide empirical evidence for its expressiveness and performance.
BibTeX - Entry
@Article{richter_et_al:DARTS.8.2.16,
author = {Richter, David and Kretzler, David and Weisenburger, Pascal and Salvaneschi, Guido and Faust, Sebastian and Mezini, Mira},
title = {{Prisma: A Tierless Language for Enforcing Contract-Client Protocols in Decentralized Applications (Artifact)}},
pages = {16:1--16:3},
journal = {Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
ISSN = {2509-8195},
year = {2022},
volume = {8},
number = {2},
editor = {Richter, David and Kretzler, David and Weisenburger, Pascal and Salvaneschi, Guido and Faust, Sebastian and Mezini, Mira},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16214},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162149},
doi = {10.4230/DARTS.8.2.16},
annote = {Keywords: Domain Specific Languages, Smart Contracts, Scala}
}
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Domain Specific Languages, Smart Contracts, Scala |
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DARTS, Volume 8, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022) |
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2022 |
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23.06.2022 |
