Abstract Decentralized Finance (DeFi) offers the promise of an emergent alternative
financial architecture that prioritizes disintermediation and decentralization to empower …

The financial technology (FinTech) sector sees high potential value in cryptocurrency
blockchain protocols, or distributed-ledger technology (DLT). However, the requirements …

Decentralized finance (DeFi) in Ethereum is a financial ecosystem built on the blockchain
that has locked over 200 billion USD until April 2022. All transaction information is …

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is an ecosystem of financial applications that are built on top of
blockchain networks. DeFi aims to create an open-source, permissionless, and transparent …

The Bitcoin whitepaper [1] published in 2008 pro-posed a novel decentralized ledger, later
called blockchain, which enabled multiple transacting parties to agree upon the shared state …

Current blockchains often are designed with one use case in mind, such as currency transfer
in Bitcoin or record storage in Namecoin. While application-specific blockchains are …

Decentralization has been widely acknowledged as a core virtue of blockchains. However,
in the past, there have been few measurement studies on measuring and comparing the …

This work analyses blockchain-mediated decentralization based on a systematic review of
the scholarly understanding of the term 'decentralization'across multiple disciplines from …

Smart contracts gave a new dimension to Blockchain applications. Subsequently,
Blockchains evolved from decentralized cryptocurrency ledgers to platforms for developing …

The blockchain technology has revolutionized the digital currency space with the pioneering
cryptocurrency platform named Bitcoin. From an abstract perspective, a blockchain is a …