Regulated Blockchain Enabled Market for Internet of Things
摘要
Trading is an effective way to exchange resources such as energy, data, and computing services between Internet of Things (IoT) for mutual benefit. The emerging blockchain-enabled market facilitates the transparency and traceability of trading, but poses new challenges to the financial stability of the market. The existing blockchain-enabled market framework is designed as a completely free market, and due to the inherent characteristics of blockchain, it is difficult to take effective measures to maintain financial stability. To address this challenge, we propose a regulated blockchain-enabled market framework for IoT devices. Based on the heterogeneous interacting agent theory in economics, we study the price dynamics and equilibrium in the market. We establish a trading smart contract that supports trading among IoT devices, and provides the market regulator with interfaces to adjust the regulatable factors in the market to promote financial stability. A prototype system of our framework is implemented in Ethereum. The experimental results demonstrate the low execution cost of the smart contract, the correctness of our theoretical analysis for the market, and the effectiveness of the regulatory policies.