{"ID":6138359,"CreatedAt":"2026-07-09T01:07:32.349475501Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-07-11T16:27:34.410439262Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07625","arxiv_id":"2607.07625","title":"Embedded Blockchain Infrastructure Management (eBIM): A RISC-V-Empowered Hardware--Software Co-Design Framework Towards Trustworthy Blockchain","abstract":"Blockchain systems are undergoing a fundamental transition from decentralized ledgers for digital assets to general-purpose trust infrastructures for verifiable computation, decentralized physical resources, and automated infrastructure management. Meanwhile, the limitations of the Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) model stem from a common structural problem: outsourcing control of infrastructure to third-party service providers inevitably involves a systemic surrender of trust, flexibility, and data sovereignty. RISC-V, with its open, modular, and extensible design, provides a general-purpose computing foundation for public blockchains that is open, low-level, compileable, verifiable, and scalable. Inspired by the development and characteristics of eSIM, the embedded Blockchain infrastructure management (eBIM) is defined as a software-hardware collaborative paradigm for blockchain infrastructure management with RISC-V. This study aims to provide a comprehensive survey on eBIM supporting research and technologies, to answer the following research questions (RQs): RQ1 What is eBIM? RQ2 How does eBIM work? RQ3 What can eBIM do? By introducing the concept of eBIM, this paper establishes a foundational reference for researchers, hardware architects, and protocol designers in this rapidly evolving landscape, including cryptographic acceleration, trusted execution environments, zero-knowledge virtual machines, and smart contract execution engines. The prospects of the proposed e-BIM and its future research directions are indicated in this paper.","short_abstract":"Blockchain systems are undergoing a fundamental transition from decentralized ledgers for digital assets to general-purpose trust infrastructures for verifiable computation, decentralized physical resources, and automated infrastructure management. Meanwhile, the limitations of the Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) model...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07625","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.07625v1","authors":"[\"Qinglin Yang\",\"Yuan Liu\",\"Yaoyao Zhang\",\"Boya Wang\",\"Zongjian You\",\"Chunming Rong\",\"Zhihong Tian\"]","published":"2026-07-08T16:41:05Z","proceeding":"cs.CR","tasks":"[\"cs.CR\",\"cs.AR\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}