The DLPS: A New Framework for Benchmarking Blockchains

Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) promise to revolutionize business ecosystems by permitting secure transactions without intermediaries. A widely recognized challenge that inhibits the uptake of DLT is scalability and performance. Hence, quantifying key metrics such as throughput latency crucial for designing DLT-based infrastructures, applications, ecosystems. However, current benchmarking frameworks blockchains do not cover whole process; impeding transparent comparisons different networks. In this paper, we present Performance Scan (DLPS), an open-source framework end-to-end performance characterizations blockchains, addressing need transparently automatically evaluate highly customizable configurations. We describe our new argue it significantly improves existing solutions. To demonstrate capabilities DLPS, also summarize main results obtained from a series experiments have conducted with it, giving first comprehensive comparison essential properties several commonly used enterprise blockchains.