An example operation may include one or more of receiving, via a blockchain peer of a blockchain network, a request to execute chaincode of a blockchain of the blockchain network from a client application, offloading one or more of chaincode operations of the request to hardware on a network switch via a network path between the blockchain peer and the network switch, receiving execution results of the offloaded one or more chaincode operations from the network switch via the network path, and forwarding the execution results received from the network switch to the client application.