Smart contract creation and monitoring for event identification in a blockchain

1. A method comprising:

identifying, by peers of a blockchain network, a smart contract, the smart contract being signed by parties to the smart contract prior to being enacted on by a blockchain of the blockchain network;

creating, from terms parsed from the smart contract, a transition matrix identifying states of the smart contract and a variable representation a corresponding event for each state;

creating, from the parsed terms, a contract alphabet indicating an event corresponding to each variable in the transition matrix;

generating a hash of a smart contract definition based on the smart contract being accepted by the parties; and

forwarding the hash of the smart contract definition to the blockchain.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying that the blockchain is to be monitored for an updated event;

identifying, form the smart contract, that an event on the blockchain is to be monitored;

reading a new block on the blockchain;

identifying the updated event from the new block; and

executing a state transition of the transition matrix based on the updated event to execute the state transition of the transition matrix.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

identifying a party required to be notified of the updated event; and

transmitting a notification of the updated event to the required party.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:

identifying an external data source to monitor;

determining a policy to use when monitoring the event on the blockchain;

determining which of one or more blockchains to write the updated event; and

when the policy has been satisfied, writing the updated event to the one or more blockchains.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the policy requires a minimum number of external data sources to confirm the update event.

6. An apparatus in a blockchain network, the apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a memory configured to store one or more instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:

identify a smart contract that is signed by parties to the smart contract prior to being enacted on by a blockchain of the blockchain network,

create, from terms parsed from the smart contract, a transition matrix identifying states of the smart contract and a variable representing a corresponding event for each state,

create, from the parsed terms, a contract alphabet indicating an event corresponding to each variable in the transition matrix,

generate a hash of the transition matrix and of the contract alphabet based on the smart contract being accepted by the parties,

forward the hash to the blockchain.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

identify that the blockchain is to be monitored for an updated event;

identify, form the smart contract, that an event on the blockchain is to be monitored;

read a new block on the blockchain;

identify the updated event from the new block; and

executing a state transition of the transition matrix based on the updated event to execute the state transition of the transition matrix.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the process is further configured to:

identify a party required to be notified of the updated event; and

transmit a notification of the updated event to the required party.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the process is further configured to:

identify an external data source to monitor;

determine a policy to use when monitoring the event on the blockchain;

determine which of one or more blockchains to write the updated event; and

when the policy has been satisfied, writing the updated event to the one or more blockchains.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the policy requires a minimum number of external data sources to confirm the update event.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store one or more instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform:

identifying, by peers of a blockchain network, a smart contract, the smart contract being signed by parties to the smart contract prior to being enacted on by a blockchain of the blockchain network;

creating, from terms parsed from the smart contract, a transition matrix identifying states of the smart contract and a variable representation a corresponding event for each state;

creating, from the parsed terms, a contract alphabet indicating an event corresponding to each variable in the transition matrix;

generating a of the transition matrix and of the contract alphabet based on the smart contract being accepted by the parties; and

forwarding the hash to the blockchain.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the one or more instructions further cause the processor to perform:

identifying that the blockchain is to be monitored for an updated event;

identifying, form the smart contract, that an event on the blockchain is to be monitored;

reading a new block on the blockchain;

identifying the updated event from the new block; and

executing a state transition of the transition matrix based on the updated event to execute the state transition of the transition matrix.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the one or more instructions further cause the processor to perform:

identifying a party required to be notified of the updated event; and

transmitting a notification of the updated event to the required party.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the one or more instructions further cause the processor to perform:

identifying one or more external data sources to monitor;

determining a policy to use when monitoring the event on the blockchain;

determining which of one or more blockchains to write the updated event; and

when the policy has been satisfied, writing the updated event to the one or more blockchains, and wherein the policy requires a minimum number of external data sources to confirm the updated event.