The Multibillion Dollar Software Supply Chain of Ethereum
César Soto-Valero, Martin Monperrus, Benoît Baudry · Computer · 2022
Ethereum is the single largest programmable blockchain platform today. Ethereum nodes operate the blockchain, relying on a vast supply chain of third-party software dependencies. In this article, we perform an analysis of the software supply chain of Java Ethereum nodes and distill the challenges of maintaining and securing this blockchain technology.