Design a Framework to Protect the Algorithms for Blockchain Technology

Abstract:

Blockchain technology is a distributed, decentralized public ledger that allows peer-to-peer transactions in a secured way without any third party. One important purpose of using the blockchain is encrypted the currency, such as bitcoin. This paper proposed a new purpose for the blockchain, which is to protect used algorithms from modification. To address the issues with centralized applications, data centralization has caused many problems, such as loss of data and information, in addition to which it may be attacked. Many types of nature reserves were lost and faced extinction. For this reason, a decentralized application based on the Ethereum network was designed that provides, decentralization, transparency, security, no middlemen, and incentives. The proposed framework in this thesis goes through two stages. The first stage is to build a smart contract, referred to as Simulation of Nature Reserved (SONR), that encodes the genetic algorithm to simulate a nature reserve for a set of genetic sequences of endangered animals. The second stage is how to protect this algorithm by creating a decentralized application that runs within the blockchain environment and on the Ethereum network. Lastly, a decentralized application was created to implement a genetic algorithm as a smart contract and then deployed on two test networks for the Ethereum platform. Our recommendations have improved both gas and time consumption. Dapp was run on the Goorli network for a period of approximately 25 seconds at a gas cost of 0.0069937539 ETH. Dapp execution time on the Sepolia network was approximately 12 seconds, with a gas cost of 0.0024745325 ETH.

• Periodical: Engineering Headway (Volume 35)
• Pages: 261-276
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-jnpVL0
• Online since: February 2026
• Authors: Hamssah Hussein, Abbas Fadhil Mahdi*, Furkan Rabee, Hussein Ali Hussein Al Naffakh
• Keywords: Blockchain, Ethereum, Genetic Algorithm, Smart Contract

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