Post-quantum distributed ledger technology: a systematic survey [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Blockchain technology finds widespread application across various fields due to its key features such as immutability, reduced costs, decentralization, and transparency.
Nikhil Kumar Parida +4 more
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The distributed ledger technology as a measure to minimize risks of poor-quality pharmaceuticals circulation [PDF]
PeerJ Computer Science, 2020 Background In the modern world, millions of people suffer from fake and poor-quality medical products entering the market. Violation of the rules of transportation of drugs makes them ineffective and even dangerous.
Aleksandr Erokhin +2 more
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Authenticating Health Activity Data Using Distributed Ledger Technologies [PDF]
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2018 The on-demand digital healthcare ecosystem is on the near horizon. It has the potential to extract a wealth of information from “big data” collected at the population level, to enhance preventive and precision medicine at the patient level.
James Brogan +2 more
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Heterogeneous Preferential Attachment in Key Ethereum-Based Cryptoassets
Frontiers in Physics, 2021 In this study, we analyse the aggregated transaction networks of Ether (the native cryptocurrency in Ethereum) and the three most market-capitalised ERC-20 tokens in this platform at the time of writing: Binance, USDT, and Chainlink.
Francesco Maria De Collibus +5 more
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Reward Distribution in Proof-of-Stake Protocols: A Trade-Off Between Inclusion and Fairness
IEEE Access, 2023 Proof-of-Stake (PoS) variants provide an energy-efficient alternative to Proof-of-Work (PoW). However, it is not clear whether practical PoS implementations are fair with respect to wealth, stake, and reward distribution.
Sheng-Nan Li +2 more
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Entropy, 2022 In this paper, we use the methods of networks science to analyse the transaction networks of tokens running on the Ethereum blockchain. We start with a deep dive on four of them: Ampleforth (AMP), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Dai (DAI) and Uniswap (UNI).
Francesco Maria De Collibus +3 more
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Approaches to Regulating E-Money Market in the Eurasian Economic Community: Comparative Analysis [PDF]
Финансовый журнал, 2020 The goal of this paper is to identify relevant (general and particular) elements of electronic money regulation in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia.
Victor L. Dostov +3 more
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Trusted Academic Transcripts on the Blockchain: A Systematic Literature Review
Applied Sciences, 2021 Much of the excitement around blockchain is mainly due to promising applications in the financial sector. However, many also believe in the technology’s potential to disrupt non-financial sectors and applications, including supply chains, energy, e ...
Giulio Caldarelli, Joshua Ellul
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The Blockchain Oracle Problem in Decentralized Finance—A Multivocal Approach
Applied Sciences, 2021 Decentralized Finance (DeFi) takes the promise of blockchain a step further and aims to transform traditional financial products into trustless and transparent protocols that run without involving intermediaries. Similar to how 2017 was the year of ICOs,
Giulio Caldarelli, Joshua Ellul
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MT $$^2$$ 2 AD: multi-layer temporal transaction anomaly detection in ethereum networks with GNN
Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2023 In recent years, a surge of criminal activities with cross-cryptocurrency trades have emerged in Ethereum, the second-largest public blockchain platform. Most of the existing anomaly detection methods utilize the traditional machine learning with feature
Beibei Han +4 more
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