Odaily News Zach Rynes, a well-known Chainlink community contributor, wrote on X: “It is extremely unlikely that the U.S. government will use a single blockchain to cover all departments and agencies. Do you think the ledger requirements of the EPA and FDA are exactly the same as those of the DoD and DHS? Probably not.
The U.S. government will eventually use multiple private and public ledgers for a variety of different purposes, such as increasing spending transparency or automating manual processes. What is certain is that:
- All of these different public/private blockchain ledgers need to be able to communicate and share data between institutions via cross-chain interoperability standards;
- Agencies need to be able to seamlessly connect their existing backend systems and infrastructure to the various public/private chains used by the government through an abstraction layer;
-Institutions using blockchain to automate manual processes need access to external data resources in order to securely trigger smart contract functions using oracles.
A unified platform is needed to meet all of these off-chain data, cross-chain interoperability, and legacy system connectivity requirements.”