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Non-invasive Light Verification: Zero-Downtime Upgrades for Deployed Consortium Blockchains

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Feng Jiang
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Xiang Fu *
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ZiHao Guan
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Liaoliao Feng
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MoHeng Lin
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Huaimin Wang
DOI:10.1016/j.bcra.2026.100527delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Light client verification is foundational for resource-constrained devices to achieve decentralized trust in consortium blockchains. However, traditional schemes such as Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) incur linear storage growth O(L) with block height. Although Merkle Mountain Range (MMR) accumulators offer theoretically logarithmic efficiency, current implementations face a critical deployment barrier: they rely on hard forks to embed accumulator roots into block headers. For deployed consortium blockchains, this necessitates invasive protocol upgrades that disrupt service continuity, rendering such solutions operationally prohibitive.
Keywords:
Consortium Blockchain
Light Client Verification
Smart Contract
Merkle Mountain Range

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Blockchain-Research and Applications cover
Blockchain-Research and Applications
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national university of defense technology
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