Blockchain smart contracts: Applications, challenges, and future trends

SN Khan, F Loukil, C Ghedira-Guegan… - Peer-to-peer Networking …, 2021 - Springer
In recent years, the rapid development of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies has
influenced the financial industry by creating a new crypto-economy. Then, next-generation …

A systematic review of blockchain scalability: Issues, solutions, analysis and future research

AI Sanka, RCC Cheung - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Blockchain is an inspiring emerging technology that takes much attention from various
researchers and companies. The technology offers various benefits such as data security …

An overview on smart contracts: Challenges, advances and platforms

Z Zheng, S Xie, HN Dai, W Chen, X Chen… - Future Generation …, 2020 - Elsevier
Smart contract technology is reshaping conventional industry and business processes.
Being embedded in blockchains, smart contracts enable the contractual terms of an …

Smart contract development: Challenges and opportunities

W Zou, D Lo, PS Kochhar, XBD Le, X Xia… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart contract, a term which was originally coined to refer to the automation of legal
contracts in general, has recently seen much interest due to the advent of blockchain …

Blockchain-enabled smart contracts: architecture, applications, and future trends

S Wang, L Ouyang, Y Yuan, X Ni… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, the rapid development of cryptocurrencies and their underlying blockchain
technology has revived Szabo's original idea of smart contracts, ie, computer protocols that …

An overview of smart contract and use cases in blockchain technology

BK Mohanta, SS Panda, D Jena - 2018 9th international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last decade blockchain technology become mainstream research topic because of its
decentralized, peer to peer transaction, distributed consensus, and anonymity properties …

Towards scaling blockchain systems via sharding

H Dang, TTA Dinh, D Loghin, EC Chang, Q Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Existing blockchain systems scale poorly because of their distributed consensus protocols.
Current attempts at improving blockchain scalability are limited to cryptocurrency. Scaling …

Blockchain technology in current agricultural systems: from techniques to applications

W Lin, X Huang, H Fang, V Wang, Y Hua, J Wang… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasingly, blockchain technology is attracting significant attentions in various agricultural
applications. These applications could satisfy the diverse needs in the ecosystem of …

Ethereum smart contract security research: survey and future research opportunities

Z Wang, H Jin, W Dai, KKR Choo, D Zou - Frontiers of Computer Science, 2021 - Springer
Blockchain has recently emerged as a research trend, with potential applications in a broad
range of industries and context. One particular successful Blockchain technology is smart …

Performance evaluation of blockchain systems: A systematic survey

C Fan, S Ghaemi, H Khazaei, P Musilek - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain has been envisioned to be a disruptive technology with potential for applications
in various industries. As more and more different blockchain platforms have emerged, it is …