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Blockchain based systems allow various kinds of financial transactions to be executed in a decentralized manner. However, these systems often rely on a trusted third party (oracle) to get correct information about the real-world events,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Naman Goel , Cyril van Schreven , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Boi Faltings

Blockchain provides decentralization and trustlessness features for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which expands the application scenarios of IIoT. To address the problem that the blockchain cannot actively obtain off-chain data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Peng Liu , Youquan Xian , Chuanjian Yao , Peng Wang , Li-e Wang , Xianxian Li

Thanks to built-in immutability and persistence, the blockchain is often seen as a promising technology to certify information. However, when the information does not originate from the blockchain itself, its correctness cannot be taken for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Marco Di Gennaro , Lorenzo Italiano , Giovanni Meroni , Giovanni Quattrocchi

Deepfake technology is a major threat to the integrity of digital media. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for a blockchain-based decentralized system designed to tackle the escalating challenge of digital content integrity. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Dipankar Sarkar

The blockchain oracle problem, which refers to the challenge of injecting reliable external data into decentralized systems, remains a fundamental limitation to the development of trustless applications. While recent years have seen a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Giulio Caldarelli

Blockchain has the potential to enhance supply chain management systems by providing stronger assurance in transparency and traceability of traded commodities. However, blockchain does not overcome the inherent issues of data trust in IoT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Guntur Dharma Putra , Changhoon Kang , Salil S. Kanhere , James Won-Ki Hong

As a trusted middleware connecting the blockchain and the real world, the blockchain oracle can obtain trusted real-time price information for financial applications such as payment and settlement, and asset valuation on the blockchain.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Youquan Xian , Xueying Zeng , Hao Wu , Danping Yang , Peng Wang , Peng Liu

Distributed Computing in Blockchain Technology (BCT) hinges on a trust assumption among independent nodes. Without a third-party interface or what is known as a Blockchain Oracle, it can not interact with the external world. This Oracle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Fahad Rahman , Chafiq Titouna , Farid Nait-Abdesselam

Blockchain is a form of distributed ledger technology (DLT) where data is shared among users connected over the internet. Transactions are data state changes on the blockchain that are permanently recorded in a secure and transparent way…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Amirmohammad Pasdar , Zhongli Dong , Young Choon Lee

Blockchain integration in industries like online advertising is hindered by its connectivity limitations to off-chain data. These industries heavily rely on precise counting systems for collecting and analyzing off-chain data. This requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Behkish Nassirzadeh , Stefanos Leonardos , Albert Heinle , Anwar Hasan , Vijay Ganesh

Blockchain has proven to be an emerging technology in the digital world, changing the way everyone thinks about data security and bringing efficiency to several industries. It has already been applied to a wide range of applications, from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Md. Mijanur Rahman , Md Tanzinul Kabir Tonmoy , Saifur Rahman Shihab , Riya Farhana

Decentralization has been touted as the principal security advantage which propelled blockchain systems at the forefront of developments in the financial technology space. Its exact semantics nevertheless remain highly contested and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Christina Ovezik , Dimitris Karakostas , Aggelos Kiayias

In recent years, blockchain has been widely applied in the Internet of Things (IoT). Blockchain oracle, as a bridge for data communication between blockchain and off-chain, has also received significant attention. However, the numerous and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Youquan Xian , Lianghaojie Zhou , Jianyong Jiang , Boyi Wang , Hao Huo , Peng Liu

The oracle problem refers to the inability of an agent to know if the information coming from an oracle is authentic and unbiased. In ancient times, philosophers and historians debated on how to evaluate, increase, and secure the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Giulio Caldarelli , Massimiliano Ornaghi

Skill verification is a central problem in workforce hiring. Companies and academia often face the difficulty of ascertaining the skills of an applicant since the certifications of the skills claimed by a candidate are generally not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Jay Gupta , Swaprava Nath

Blockchain consensus, rooted in the principle ``don't trust, verify'', limits access to real-world data, which may be ambiguous or inaccessible to some participants. Oracles address this limitation by supplying data to blockchains, but…

Data tampering is often considered a severe problem in industrial applications as it can lead to inaccurate financial reports or even a corporate security crisis. A correct representation of data is essential for companies' core business…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Zeshun Shi , Jeroen Bergers , Ken Korsmit , Zhiming Zhao

Online portals include an increasing amount of user feedback in form of ratings and reviews. Recent research highlighted the importance of this feedback and confirmed that positive feedback improves product sales figures and thus its…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Daniel Martens , Walid Maalej

Despite Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have reduced the information asymmetry and increased the degree of interorganizational collaboration, the companies participating a supply chain are less inclined to share data when…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Francesco Longo , Letizia Nicoletti , Antonio Padovano , Gianfranco d'Atri , Marco Forte

A blockchain-based framework for distributed agile software testing life cycle is an innovative approach that uses blockchain technology to optimize the software testing process. Previously, various methods were employed to address…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Muhammad Shoaib Farooq , Fatima Ahmed
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