Decentralized Applications: The Blockchain-Empowered Software System
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
2018-10-15 v1 Cryptography and Security
Computers and Society
Abstract
Blockchain technology has attracted tremendous attention in both academia and capital market. However, overwhelming speculations on thousands of available cryptocurrencies and numerous initial coin offering (ICO) scams have also brought notorious debates on this emerging technology. This paper traces the development of blockchain systems to reveal the importance of decentralized applications (dApps) and the future value of blockchain. We survey the state-of-the-art dApps and discuss the direction of blockchain development to fulfill the desirable characteristics of dApps. The readers will gain an overview of dApp research and get familiar with recent developments in the blockchain.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.05365,
title = {Decentralized Applications: The Blockchain-Empowered Software System},
author = {Wei Cai and Zehua Wang and Jason B. Ernst and Zhen Hong and Chen Feng and Victor C. M. Leung},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.05365},
year = {2018}
}
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15 pages, 2 figures