Blockchain 3.0 applications survey

By Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Paolo Mori. J. Parallel Distributed Comput., 2020

297 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract In this paper we survey a number of interesting applications of blockchain technology not related to cryptocurrencies. As a matter of fact, after an initial period of application to cryptocurrencies and to the financial world, blockchain technology has been successfully exploited in many other different scenarios, where its unique features allowed the definition of innovative and sometimes disruptive solutions. In particular, this paper takes into account the following application scenarios: end-to-end verifiable electronic voting, healthcare records management, identity management systems, access control systems, decentralized notary (with a focus on intellectual property protection) and supply chain management. For each of these, we firstly analyse the problem, the related requirements and the advantages the adoption of blockchain technology might bring. Then, we present a number of relevant solutions proposed in the literature both by academia and companies.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/317d8798a1a22462b685e9f9b76de4b50c53501e

Citations in the corpus

• A literature review of blockchain technology applications in supply chains: A comprehensive analysis of themes, methodologies and industries (2021, unknown): “The hash function guarantees the integrity, authenticity and immutability of the distributed ledger data through the hash value and hash pointer, and it can convert the input data into a fixed-length digest through a hash algorithm, whose process is irreversible (Maesa & Mori, 2020).”