US Patent 10318747 Block chain based authentication

A computing system includes a programming interface of a control interface of a distributed computing environment, a service layer of the control interface, and a manager of the control interface. The programming interface is configured to receive a block of a block chain database. The block includes a ledger that includes a plurality of transactional data records. The service layer is configured to analyze the plurality of records to determine that one of the plurality of records is an indication of a request by a client for a service provided by a data interface of the distributed computing environment. The manager is configured to allocate access to execute the request in response to receiving the indication of the request.