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With the advent of globalization and the evergrowing rate of technology, the volume of production as well as ease of procuring counterfeit goods has become unprecedented. Be it food, drug or luxury items, all kinds of industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Nafisa Anjum , Pramit Dutta

Smart contracts have played a pivotal role in the evolution of blockchains and Decentralized Applications (DApps). As DApps continue to gain widespread adoption, multiple smart contract languages have been and are being made available to…

The Ethereum platform allows developers to implement and deploy applications called Dapps onto the blockchain for public use through the use of smart contracts. To execute code within a smart contract, a paid transaction must be issued…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Michael Pacheco , Gustavo A. Oliva , Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur , Ahmed E. Hassan

Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technology is a disruptive technology that provides the infrastructure for developing decentralized applications enabling the implementation of novel business models even in traditionally centralized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Claudia Pop , Tudor Cioara , Ionut Anghel , Marcel Antal , Ioan Salomie

Blockchain is an emerging decentralized data collection, sharing and storage technology, which have provided abundant transparent, secure, tamper-proof, secure and robust ledger services for various real-world use cases. Recent years have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Xiao Li , Weili Wu

Privacy preservation is a big concern for various sectors. To protect individual user data, one emerging technology is differential privacy. However, it still has limitations for datasets with frequent queries, such as the fast accumulation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Leong Mei Han , Yang Zhao , Jun Zhao

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) becomes a popular governance solution for decentralized applications (dApps) to achieve decentralized governance. In the DAO, no single entity can arbitrarily control the dApps without approval…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Junjie Ma , Muhui Jiang , Jinan Jiang , Xiapu Luo , Yufeng Hu , Yajin Zhou , Qi Wang , Fengwei Zhang

In today's digital age, online communities have become an integral part of our lives, fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and community engagement. Higher education institutions, in particular, can greatly benefit from dedicated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Mariam Ayman , Youssef El-harty , Ahmed Rashed , Ahmed Fathy , Ahmed Abdullah , Omar Wassim , Walid Gomaa

In recent years, many decentralized applications based on blockchain (DApp) have been developed. However, due to inadequate testing, DApps are easily exposed to serious vulnerabilities. We find three main challenges for DApp testing, i.e.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Zhenhao Wu , Jiashuo Zhang , Jianbo Gao , Yue Li , Qingshan Li , Zhi Guan , Zhong Chen

As the use of DevOps practices continues to grow, organizations are seeking ways to improve collaboration, speed up development cycles, and increase security, transparency, and traceability. Blockchain technology has the potential to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Muhammad Shoaib Farooq , Usman Ali

We present a decentralized online gaming platform implemented as a Decentralized Application (DApp) on the Ethereum blockchain. The gaming platform enables secure gaming, where the account balances and the stakes of the players are secured…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Katharina Alefs , Florian Hartl , Luke Newman , Banu Ozdeveci , Wisnu Uriawan

Blockchains have received much attention recently since they provide decentralized approaches to the creation and management of value. Many banks, Internet companies, car manufacturers, and even governments worldwide have incorporated or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Wubing Chen , Zhiying Xu , Shuyu Shi , Yang Zhao , Jun Zhao

Blockchain, as the basis for cryptocurrencies, has received extensive attentions recently. Blockchain serves as an immutable distributed ledger technology which allows transactions to be carried out credibly in a decentralized environment.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Min An , Qiyuan Fan , Hao Yu , Haiyang Zhao

Modern cryptocurrencies exploit decentralised blockchains to record a public and unalterable history of transactions. Besides transactions, further information is stored for different, and often undisclosed, purposes, making the blockchains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Massimo Bartoletti , Andrea Bracciali , Stefano Lande , Livio Pompianu

Blockchains are gaining momentum due to the interest of industries and people in \emph{decentralized applications} (Dapps), particularly in those for trading assets through digital certificates secured on blockchain, called tokens. As a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Giampaolo Bella , Domenico Cantone , Cristiano Longo , Marianna Nicolosi-Asmundo , Daniele Francesco Santamaria

Lots of existing web applications include a component for rating internet resources (e.g., social media platforms include mechanisms for rating videos or posts). Based on the obtained rating, the most popular internet resources can generate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Andreea Buterchi , Andrei Arusoaie

The popularity of blockchain technology continues to grow rapidly in both industrial and academic fields. Most studies of blockchain focus on the improvements of security, usability, or efficiency of blockchain protocols, or the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-20 He Jiang , Dong Liu , Zhilei Ren , Tao Zhang

This paper presents MindTheDApp, a toolchain designed specifically for the structural analysis of Ethereum-based Decentralized Applications (DApps), with a distinct focus on a complex network-driven approach. Unlike existing tools, our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Giacomo Ibba , Sabrina Aufiero , Silvia Bartolucci , Rumyana Neykova , Marco Ortu , Roberto Tonelli , Giuseppe Destefanis

The rise of blockchain technology within a few years has attracted researchers across the world. The prime reason for worldwide attention is undoubtedly due to its feature of immutability along with the decentralized approach of data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Saqib Hakak , Wazir Zada Khan , Gulshan Amin Gilkar , Basem Assiri , Mamoun Alazab , Sweta Bhattacharya , G Thippa Reddy

Blockchain technology promises a decentralized, trustless, and interoperable infrastructure. However, widespread adoption remains hindered by issues such as limited scalability, high transaction costs, and the complexity of maintaining…

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