Exploring distributed ledger technology for severely constrained environment

Abstract

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is the basic building block of Web3, which is gradually surpassing Web 2.0. Organizations worldwide whose key business requirements are immutability, traceability, and transparency are transforming their business to provide solutions that are built on DLT. Recently, the usage of it to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) are extensively talked about in the industry as well as academia. However, the current focus is on solving the problem assuming reasonable constraints. But there are scenarios where the participating user base is severely constrained. In this paper, we explore the existing standard and non-standard techniques and provide recommendations that can be useful when building solution architecture for such extreme scenarios.