The Multi-Billion Dollar Software Supply Chain of Ethereum
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The rise of blockchain technologies has triggered tremendous research interests, coding efforts, and monetary investments in the last decade. Ethereum is the largest programmable blockchain platform today. It features cryptocurrency trading, digital art, and decentralized finance through smart contracts. So-called Ethereum nodes operate the blockchain, relying on a vast supply chain of third-party software dependencies maintained by diverse organizations. These software suppliers have a direct impact on the reliability and the security of Ethereum. In this article, we perform the first analysis of the software supply chain of Java Ethereum nodes and distill the challenges of maintaining and securing the Ethereum supply chain.
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