A Tree-Based Repository Blockchain Framework for Shared Governance in Collaborative Fork Ecosystems

Computer Science > Emerging Technologies [Submitted on 27 Apr 2026] A Tree-Based Repository Blockchain Framework for Shared Governance in Collaborative Fork Ecosystems Razwan Ahmed Tanvir, Greg Speegle Collaborative blockchain ecosystems allow diverse groups to cooperate on tasks while providing properties such as decentralization and transaction security. We provide a model that uses a repository blockchain to manage hard forks within a collaborative system such that a single process (assuming that it has knowledge of the requirements of each fork) can access all of the blocks within the system. The repository blockchain replaces the need for Inter Blockchain Communication (IBC) within the ecosystem by navigating the networks. The resulting construction resembles a tree instead of a chain. A proof-of-concept implementation performs a depth-first search on the new structure. Comments: 15 pages, 4 figures, conference paper Subjects: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC) Cite as: arXiv:2604.25015 [cs.ET]   (or arXiv:2604.25015v1 [cs.ET] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.25015 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Razwan Ahmed Tanvir [view email] [v1] Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:33:35 UTC (340 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: cs.ET < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-04 Change to browse by: cs cs.CR cs.DC References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)