AGChain: A Blockchain-based Gateway for Trustworthy App Delegation from Mobile App Markets

Mengjie Chen; Xiao Yi; Daoyuan Wu; Jianliang Xu; Yingjiu Li; Debin Gao

doi:10.1145/3709157

AGChain: A Blockchain-based Gateway for Trustworthy App Delegation from Mobile App Markets

Mengjie Chen, Xiao Yi, Daoyuan Wu^*, Jianliang Xu, Yingjiu Li, Debin Gao

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The popularity of smartphones has led to the growth of mobile app markets, creating a need for enhanced transparency, global access, and secure downloading. This paper introduces AGChain, a blockchain-based gateway that enables trustworthy app delegation within existing markets. AGChain ensures that markets can continue providing services while users benefit from permanent, distributed, and secure app delegation. During its development, we address two key challenges: significantly reducing smart contract gas costs and enabling fully distributed IPFS-based file storage. Additionally, we tackle three system issues related to security and sustainability. We have implemented a prototype of AGChain on Ethereum and Polygon blockchains, achieving effective security and decentralization with a minimal gas cost of around 0.0028 USD per app upload (no cost for app download). AGChain also exhibits reasonable performance with an average overhead of 12%.

Original language	English
Number of pages	22
Journal	Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3709157
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 23 Dec 2024

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