Top Research Papers on Blockchain

This research identifies a number of common characteristics in the BaaS offerings related to the use of service types, distributed ledger technology (DLT) systems, consensus mechanisms, and pricing models and provides a taxonomy that provides guidance for researchers and practitioners alike interested in BAAS.

It is argued that blockchain is a productive force, even if it does not solve the problem of trust, and sometimes regardless of blockchain technology not implemented after all.

This work defines two basic compositional operations between blockchains, serial and triangular compositions, and uses these operations as building blocks to construct general overlay blockchains that can yield all possible tradeoffs of safety and liveness for an overlay blockchain built on arbitrary number of underlay chains.

This Element provides a critical examination of the core themes, theoretical lenses, and methodologies used in blockchain research in business and management scholarship, providing profound implications for three major issues of strategic organization: contracting, trust, and organizational design.

An extensive survey on the applications of blockchain for the metaverse and the impact of blockchain on key-enabling technologies in theMetaverse, including Internet-of-Things, digital twins, multi-sensory and immersive applications, artificial intelligence, and big data is investigated.

The paper presents the principles on which blockchain is based and analyzes the possibilities of the application of blockchain technology in more detail to conclude that blockchain technology has great potential in automating and optimizing business processes and protecting the information and privacy of users.

This article studies and analyzes how blockchain oracles provide final feedback to smart contracts and survey blockchain oracle technologies and mechanisms regarding data integrity and correctness and investigates their structure and principles by classifying the Blockchain oracle implementation techniques into two major groups voting-based strategies and reputation-based ones.

It is found that 46% of Ethereum blocks were made by censoring actors complying with OFAC sanctions, indicating the significant impact of OFAC sanctions on the neutrality of public blockchains.

The study proposes a health application that uses sharding methodology in which the formation of the shards is based on the patient requests and proves a promising solution for enhancing scalability of blockchain based health applications.

This research highlights an inclusive indication on blockchain technology with blockchain architecture in the first phase and the security challenges and problems associated with blockchain are highlighted and proposes and measures up to various typical consensus algorithms used in different blockchains.

A performance index named Blockchain Circular Economy Index (BCEI), obtained through Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process, aims to measure the suitability of blockchain platforms to the needs highlighted by a CE scenario.

The integration of “AI for blockchain” and “blockchain for AI” is proposed to form a bidirectional enhancement loop, for establishing genuinely intelligent blockchains and ushering in a new paradigm referred to as blockchain intelligence.

This paper investigates objectively concrete factors which provide indication in regard to whether Blockchain is dead and individually demonstrate metrics that indicate the respective measures’ healthy activity and come to the conclusion that the collective statement ‘Blockchain is dead’ does not hold.

This chapter examines how Blockchain can be used with cooperative networks and how it could fundamentally alter the way entities interact and communicate and demonstrates the real-world effects of Blockchain-enabled collaborative networks across various industries with a number of case studies.

This survey summarizes the state-of-the-art blockchain consensus protocols and presents the existing blockchain protocols in the categories of proof-based protocols, committee- based protocols, and other miscellaneous protocols.

The authors focus on blockchain‐based securities trading, in which blockchain technology plays a vital role in financial services as it ultimately lifts trust and frees the need for third‐party verification by using consensus‐based verification.

The findings indicated that the integration challenges influencing the effective operations of blockchain, AI, and IoT as a single system involve security, scalability, accountability, and trust of communications.

Purpose This study aims to investigate the integration of blockchain technology into the food supply chain within the restaurant industry. It focuses on how blockchain can be applied to enhance transparency and trust in tracking food sources, ultimately impacting customer satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach A service design workshop (Study 1) and three between-subjects experiments (Studies 2–4) were conducted. Findings Results indicate that blockchain adoption significantly improves traceability and trust in the food supply chain. This improvement in turn enhances customer satisfaction...

The aim in this paper is to understand what, fundamentally, governs the nature of security for permissionless blockchain protocols, and to establish, for example, that the production of certificates is impossible for proof-of-work protocols, but is automatic for standard forms of proof- of-stake protocols.

This paper is the first to evaluate the performance of some representative interoperability approaches between Bitcoin and Ethereum covering sidechains, notary schemes, and HTLCs and discusses existing challenges and possible research directions in blockchain interoperability.

This paper presents a detailed review of blockchain technology, the critical challenges faced, and its applications in different fields, paying particular attention to its evolution, applications and benefits.

In this chapter, the authors have detailed the need of blockchain technology along with its case studies in different domains and a proposed security framework in certain applications using blockchain technology is presented.

Recently, blockchain has been increasingly applied to low‐carbon supply chains, enabling consumers to track production process of low‐carbon products, thereby improving brand awareness and expanding the market. However, do the operation and construction costs of blockchain come at the expense of squeezing resources originally allocated for research and development (R&D) of carbon emission reduction (CER) or reducing firms profits? Given the varying capacities of different types of firms to bear the costs of blockchain in the process of R&D of CER, this paper considers two categories of firms, ...

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The chapter explores the feature of the new disruptive business models-based blockchain technology as a new approach in delivering business products and services in different fields of business.

The role of blockchain technology in enhancing cybersecurity, focusing on how its decentralised and immutable nature can mitigate various cyber threats, is explored.

This study examines the literature and promising blockchain-based open intelligence systems for their applicability and contribution to open intelligence, and categorize them according to their primary purpose.

The findings show that the models based on the technology acceptance model (TAM), technology–organization–environment (TOE), and new conceptual frameworks were the focus of the majority of selected articles.

Results unveil that even users familiar with technology experienced severe difficulties using blockchain-based apps, and see how blockchain metaphors and transaction-mediated interactions challenge established mental models for modern applications, imposing heavy workloads on users.

Supply chain efficiency, transparency, and sustainability can be enhanced using blockchain technology. Blockchain enables a company to accurately track raw material origin to finished products, which ensures standard quality and sustainability. Furthermore, blockchain improves partnerships between supply chain stakeholders by providing a confident, common platform for sharing data. The influence of implementing blockchain technology on supply chain sustainability includes reduced wastage, increased resource transparency, monitoring of social standards, and reduced operational costs. The challe...

This chapter will address the outstanding issues around the fair attribution of costs and benefits of data sharing in the rail industry by proposing blockchains as a forth enabler of the rail data revolution, alongside ESB, ontology, and open data.

A homomorphic encryption-based Blockchain for circuit copyright protection that effectively addresses the issues in the protection of circuit copyright transactions, such as low security of private data, low efficiency in transaction data storage, cooperation and supervision.

The cryptography technology in the blockchain is introduced, the privacy protection problems existing in the current blockchain are summarized, and the existing cryptography solutions and the advantages and disadvantages of each scheme are expounded.

This paper explains how sketches can detect anomalies based on efficient an summary of the state or traffic and explores how this coupling can be generalized to a wider range of sketches and additional functionalities.

An experiment to show that private blockchain is able for usage in mobile networks and to compare two popular blockchain (private and public) is described.

This framework is a set of recommendations that enables the creation of multipurpose network of networks that are robust, reliable, sustainable, compliant, scalable, and have clear definition of accountabilities.

The main objective of this article is to categorize the different aspects of 6G into four emerging directions that anticipate significant advancements leveraging blockchain, to discuss the potential role of blockchainized 6G under each key emerging direction, and to expound on the technical challenges in blockchaining 6G along with possible solutions.

This article aims to analyse the narratives that surround the use of blockchain for social good and to compare them with traditional concepts that are significant in social justice theories, such as distribution and recognition.

The purpose of this article is to propose a concept for the Indonesia's National Blockchain concept which fit to be implemented in Indonesia called IDN at-Blockchain which is derived into three blockchain; (1) IDGov-blockchain, (2) IDVII-Block chain, and (3) IDPub-Blockchains.

An annotated portfolio of projects that seek to understand and communicate the social and societal implications of blockchains, DLTs and smart contracts, and paints a comprehensive picture of how HCI and design can shape understandings of the future of complex technologies.

A cross‐chain decentralized asset transfer protocol for blockchains without involving any intermediaries that keeps track of transaction finality, providing transaction irreversibility guarantees and preventing assets from being lost in the transfer process.

The successes and failures of blockchain are covered in this history as well as its status and the problems that need to be solved for blockchain to have a global economic and cultural impact.

China has its perspectives on the rise of the worldwide blockchain landscape: embracing the blockchain technology while resisting illegal financial activities related to coinoffering fundraising and trading or “virtual currencies.”

The merits and demerits of the existing technologies in the research directions of tracking and visualization of blockchain nodes, consortium blockchain penetration regulation technology, public chain active discovery and exploration disposition techniques, and chain governance are analyzed.

The Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) seeks to bridge the gap between quantification and methodological coherence in blockchain research, formulate a taxonomy defining blockchain decentralization across five facets: consensus, network, governance, wealth, and transaction, and outlines directions for blockchain research.

This work lays out a common foundation for assessing governance processes in blockchain systems and while it highlights shortcomings and deficiencies in currently deployed systems, it can also be a catalyst for improving these processes to the highest possible standard with appropriate trade-offs, something direly needed for blockchain platforms to operate effectively in the long term.

This work helps readers quickly capture historical evolution and innovations of Blockchain, envisioning the next advancements of Web3 as well as the Internet of Value (Internet 2.0).

An in-depth review of the role and gains of blockchain, intelligent networking, and the combination of both in providing the immersive experiences of the metaverse is conducted.

This article presents a structured overview of the field, from topology and neighbor discovery, over block and transaction propagation, to sharding and off-chain networks, also reviewing existing empirical results from different measurement studies.

Blockchain embodies this tech duality and concomitantly stores within it the key to self-determination, sovereign identity, and community empowerment while divergently acting as an instrument for oppression.