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Blockchain technology, introduced in 2008, has revolutionized data storage and transfer across sectors such as finance, healthcare, intelligent transportation, and the metaverse. However, the proliferation of blockchain systems has led to…

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A major problem in blockchain-based supply chain management is the potential unreliability of digital twins when considering digital representations of physical goods. Indeed, the use of blockchain technology to trace goods is obviously…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Vincenzo Botta , Laura Fusco , Attilio Mondelli , Ivan Visconti

The ongoing regulation of blockchain-based services and applications requires the identification of users who are issuing transactions on the blockchain. This systematic review explores the current status, identifies research gaps, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Awid Vaziry , Kaustabh Barman , Patrick Herbke

In recent years, the advancement in modern technologies has experienced an explosion of huge data sets being captured and recorded in different fields, but also given rise to concerns the security and protection of data storage,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Uchi Ugobame Uchibeke , Sara Hosseinzadeh Kassani , Kevin A. Schneider , Ralph Deters

Blockchain was mainly introduced for secure transactions in connection with the mining of cryptocurrency Bitcoin. This article discusses the fundamental concepts of blockchain technology and its components, such as block header,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Sunil Kumar Singh , Sumit Kumar

The applications of the blockchain technology are still being discov-ered. When a new potential disruptive technology emerges, there is a tendency to try to solve every problem with that technology. However, it is still necessary to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Bruno Tavares , Filipe Figueiredo Correia , André Restivo , João Pascoal Faria , Ademar Aguiar

With the popularity of Blockchain comes grave security-related concerns. Achieving privacy and traceability simultaneously remains an open question. Efforts have been made to address the issues, while they may subject to specific scenarios.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Yue Zhang , Jian Weng , Jiasi Weng , Ming Li , Weiqi Luo

Trust between entities in any scenario without a trusted third party is very difficult, and trust is exactly what blockchain aims to bring into the digital world with its basic features. Many applications are moving to blockchain adoption,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Stanly Wilson , Kwabena Adu-Duodu , Yinhao Li , Ellis Solaiman , Omer Rana , Rajiv Ranjan

Blockchains are widely used for secure transaction processing, but their scalability remains limited, and existing multichain designs are typically static even as demand and capacity shift. We cast blockchain configuration as a multiagent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Nimrod Talmon , Haim Zysberg

Within the last few years, a countless number of blockchain systems have emerged on the market, each one claiming to revolutionize the way of distributed transaction processing in one way or the other. Many blockchain features, such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Ankur Sharma , Felix Martin Schuhknecht , Divya Agrawal , Jens Dittrich

Since its inception, the blockchain technology has shown promising application prospects. From the initial cryptocurrency to the current smart contract, blockchain has been applied to many fields. Although there are some studies on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Xiaoqi Li , Peng Jiang , Ting Chen , Xiapu Luo , Qiaoyan Wen

The Covid-19 pandemic has made individuals and organizations to rethink the way of handling identity verification and credentials sharing particularly in quarantined situations. In this study, we investigate the inefficiencies of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Mehmet Aydar , Serkan Ayvaz , Salih Cemil Cetin

Blockchain databases have attracted widespread attention but suffer from poor scalability due to underlying non-scalable blockchains. While blockchain sharding is necessary for a scalable blockchain database, it poses a new challenge named…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zicong Hong , Song Guo , Enyuan Zhou , Wuhui Chen , Huawei Huang , Albert Zomaya

Today's permissioned blockchain systems come in a stand-alone fashion and require the users to integrate yet another full-fledged transaction processing system into their already complex data management landscape. This seems odd as…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Felix Martin Schuhknecht , Ankur Sharma , Jens Dittrich , Divya Agrawal

Blockchain is an emerging technology that enables new forms of decentralized software architectures, where distributed components can reach agreements on shared system states without trusting a central integration point. Blockchain provides…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xiwei Xu , Cesare Pautasso , Sin Kuang Lo , Liming Zhu , Qinghua Lu , Ingo Weber

The emerging blockchain technology has enabled various decentralised applications in a trustless environment without relying on a trusted intermediary. It is expected as a promising solution to tackle sophisticated challenges on personal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Nguyen Truong , Kai Sun , Yike Guo

During the normal operation of a Cloud solution, no one usually pays attention to the logs except technical department, which may periodically check them to ensure that the performance of the platform conforms to the Service Level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-22 William Pourmajidi , Andriy Miranskyy

The fundamental basis for maintaining integrity within contemporary blockchain systems is provided by authenticated databases. Our analysis indicates that a significant portion of the approaches applied in this domain fail to sufficiently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Bernhard Kauer , Aleksandr Petrosyan , Benjamin Livshits

There has been tremendous interest in the development of formal trust models and metrics through the use of analytics (e.g., Belief Theory and Bayesian models), logics (e.g., Epistemic and Subjective Logic) and other mathematical models.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Shantanu Pal , Ambrose Hill , Tahiry Rabehaja , Michael Hitchens

The blockchain ecosystem, particularly with the rise of Web3 and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), has experienced a significant increase in users and applications. However, this expansion is challenged by the need to connect early adopters with…

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