A Comparative Analysis of Various Blockchain Hardware Platforms Using Ethereum

This paper conducts a performance analysis of popular blockchain platforms, RISC-V, to assess the performance and limitations of these state-of-the-art platforms. This paper performs a performance analysis of popular blockchain platforms, RISC-V, to evaluate the performance and limitations of these state-of-the-art platforms. Blockchain, a decentralized transaction and data management technology, is the technology that will have similar impacts as the Internet had on people's lives. Many industries have become interested in adopting blockchain in their IT systems, but scalability is an often-cited concern of current blockchain technology. Therefore, the goal of this article, to analyze and compare the performances of var-ious hardware platforms available for blockchain. The plat-forms preferred for conducting this research works are X86, ARM, and RISC-V. The computational capabilities have been showcased and elaborated in detail. First, the compatibility of the blockchain has been checked with Ethereum. Second, critical parameters like time and space complexity are considered to find the best suitable platform.