METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE INCLUDING ANONYMOUS ENTRIES

A method comprises: receiving, at a first compute device configured to be included within a plurality of compute devices that implements a distributed database and from a second compute device, (1) a first public key associated with the second compute device and logically related to a first source record and (2) a second public key associated with the second compute device and logically related to a first destination record, the distributed database including a second source record logically related to a first public key associated with the first compute device and a second destination record logically related to a second public key associated with the first compute device; defining a transfer command by executing a deterministic sort between the second public key associated with the first compute device and the second public key associated with the second compute device; and sending a signal to post into the distributed database the transfer command configured to transfer a value from (1) the first source record to one of the first destination record or the second destination record based on the deterministic sort and (2) the second source record to the other of the first destination record or the second destination record based on the deterministic sort.