Implementation and Benchmarking of a Factory-Beacon-ERC-1155 Architecture for Multi-Asset Tokenization of Agricultural Commodities

• Juan Minango CPQD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2682-8602
• Alberto Paradisi CPQD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0815-9222
• Silvia Marion CPQD
• Andreza Lona CPQD

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/cblockchain.2026.23543

Abstract

Deploying individual smart contracts per agricultural asset class is cost-prohibitive, and immutable ERC-20/ERC-721 contracts require full redeployment for every protocol update. We propose and implement a unified architecture combining Factory with CREATE2 deterministic addressing, Beacon Proxy upgradeability, and ERC-1155 multi-token capabilities. Evaluated via Foundry gas benchmarks, the architecture reduces batch minting cost by 38% and keeps protocol-wide upgrades at a constant 5,439 gas regardless of proxy count, compared to 280,863 gas per contract for traditional redeployment.

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