Ladder: A Blockchain Model of Low-Overhead Storage

Peng Chen, Xunhui Zhang, Hui Liu, Liangliang Xiang, Peichang Shi

Abstract: Emerging blockchain accounting mechanism allow mutually distributed parties to transport trusted information and ensure the correctness of data. Every blockchain node stores the complete block locally. Although this measure improves security, it causes huge storage overhead. We present Ladder, a multi-level low-overhead storage model for blockchain, which can greatly reduce the storage overhead of nodes while ensuring that the blockchain cannot be tampered easily and the block information is complete. Ladder distinguishes the retrieved frequency and importance of different blocks by value-density, dividing them into Hot-Blocks, Warm-Blocks and Cold-Blocks adopting different storage strategies respectively. Through experimental verification of time and space cost of different storage strategies, Ladder can greatly reduce the local storage overhead of nodes.