A Prototype of Blockchain/Distributed File System Platform

The purpose of this paper is to present a prototype of a platform for data exchange that integrates blockchain and distributed file system technologies. The development phases are defined, an architecture and topology design is suggested, and the main functionalities of the prototype are implemented. Also presented are experiments and results on prototype’s performance and resource usage evaluation. The presented prototype’s functionalities enable upload/download files operations, a monetization protocol, digital rights management for some file formats, testing the performance with different file sizes, testing the decentralized operation mode, performance and resource usage evaluation and activity log reporting. Presented are results of 800 test experiments for the blockchain and distributed file system networks performance, the prototype functionality verification and the estimation of resource usage.