The future will be increasingly distributed. As the publicity surrounding Bitcoin and
blockchain has shown, distributed technology and business models are gaining popularity …

Blockchain technology has given rise to various blockchains, each with unique
characteristics and applications. However, these isolated and heterogeneous blockchains …

The blockchain is an emerging technology which has the potential to improve many
information systems. In this regard, the applications and the platform they are built on must …

Blockchain has been receiving considerable attention from the research community lately.
Several research efforts have proposed the use of blockchain in many application domains …

Although the first Blockchain (BC) was proposed about a decade ago, BC achievements
from a technical and functional perspective are measurable, but still face open issues. Since …

A blockchain is a distributed network, which can be used as a digital ledger as well as a
mechanism that enables the secure transfer of assets without a central authority. Like the …

A blockchain is a distributed, time-stamped, append-only ledger of data connected with
addresses, simultaneously kept on all the nodes within a decentralized network. Blockchain …

This chapter explains the role and how interoperability standards and compatibility
standards will enable the development of cross-chain blockchain networks. Blockchain …

Blockchain, as the foundation for cryptocurrencies, has recently garnered significant
attention. It serves as an immutable distributed ledger technology, which allows transactions …

The growing number of implementations of blockchain systems stands in stark contrast with
still limited research on a systematic comparison of performance characteristics of these …