Canton Domain on EthereumΒΆ
A Canton Ethereum domain uses a sequencer backed by Ethereum instead of by another ledger
(such as Postgres or Fabric). The other domain components (mediator, domain manager) are reused from the relational database driver.
Architecturally, the Canton Ethereum sequencer is a JVM application that interacts with an Ethereum client
via the RPC JSON API
to write events to the blockchain.
Specifically, it interacts with an instance of the smart contract Sequencer.sol and calls function of Sequencer.sol
to persist transactions and requests to the blockchain.
It uses the configured Ethereum account to execute these calls.
Analogous to the database-based sequencer implementations, multiple Ethereum sequencer applications can read and write to the same
Sequencer.sol smart contract instance and they can do so through different Ethereum client nodes for high availability,
scalability, and trust. The following diagrams shows the architecture of an Ethereum-based domain:
Note
When running in a multi-writer setup, each Ethereum Sequencer application needs to use a separate Ethereum account. Otherwise, transactions may get stuck due to nonce mismatches.
