Blockchain and smart contract mechanism design challenges
The first well known application of blockchain technology was Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer system custom-designed to make value transfer function without relying on a central party. It worked really well and still works today as arguably the most robust deployment of blockchain applications. But blockchain will never have made to the forefront of the technological innovations were it not for a number of key technologies that were added to the limited functionalities in Bitcoin, and smart contracts was a critical foundation of that revolution. There are many business advantages to using smart contracts, including trust, transparency, security, autonomy and accuracy. This article will focus on explaining what a smart contract is, how it works, and the various approaches for deployment.
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- Implementing a blockchain from scratch: why, how, and what we learned
- Smart Payment Contract Mechanism Based on Blockchain Smart Contract Mechanism
- Smart Contract-Driven Mechanism Design to Mitigate Information Diffusion in Social Networks
- Smart Contracts: Bridging the Gap Between Expectation and Reality
- Blockchain smart contracts: Applications, challenges, and future trends
- Smart contract model for complex reality transaction
Implementing a blockchain from scratch: why, how, and what we learned
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it. Master thesis. Utgivelsesdato Sammendrag Proof-of-Storage PoS is a collective term for protocols that allow proving data integrity and availability. There exist several PoS schemes. While they differ in detailed specifications, their common primary advantage is eliminating the need for trust between storage providers and data owners. However, there does not exist a mechanism to provide self-emerging delivery of requests for proof of storage, commonly known as challenges.
This paper presents a decentralized system for PoS using self-emerging challenges built on smart contract in the Ethereum platform. Self-emerging challenges provide an automated mechanism for ensuring integrity and persistence of data at chosen time intervals.
The design employs participating nodes in the Ethereum blockchain, commonly referred to as peers, to store and route challenges to storage providers. The peers are compensated for their service by their respective employers.
Data owners are enabled to schedule the time of emergence of a challenge to storage providers. Upon a received challenge, storage providers prove the integrity and persistence of data by responding correctly to the challenge.
The design builds on the existing work of decentralized self-emerging data systems over Ethereum blockchain networks. We show that this work can be utilized for PoS and solve the problems that the incorporation and adaptation of this work raises. We evaluate the proposed system based on several factors. We investigate the security of the system based on the different attacks that the participants may execute for exploitation.
We also evaluate the expenses of data owners utilizing the proposed system based on the inherited costs of invoking smart contract functions in the Ethereum platform. Lastly, through analysis, we find that to minimize the total costs in the system, the number of employed peers should be restricted to one in each path.
In other words, one peer to deliver a PoS challenge to the storage service provider. We show that this additionally improves the fairness of remuneration payout to peers and analyze how security is affected by always utilizing one peer in each path. We discover that this improves prevention against drop attacks, while it to some degree decreases the prevention of release-ahead attacks which we deem less critical.
Through these analyses, we recognize that the benefits greatly outweigh the drawback, and we make a suggestion that data owners should select exactly one peer per path in their services. Beskrivelse Master's thesis in Computer science. Utgiver University of Stavanger, Norway. Hele arkivet. Denne samlingen.
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Smart Payment Contract Mechanism Based on Blockchain Smart Contract Mechanism
In recent years, blockchain technology has become a hot topic in various industries. With the development and maturity of blockchain technology, it has been applied to finance, law, etc. The application scenarios of industry are becoming more and more abundant. Compared with the traditional TPA payment contract form, the smart contract mechanism based on blockchain technology is obviously more efficient, convenient, and safe.
Smart Contract-Driven Mechanism Design to Mitigate Information Diffusion in Social Networks
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Smart Contracts: Bridging the Gap Between Expectation and Reality
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Blockchain smart contracts: Applications, challenges, and future trends
In this article I will outline the technological and legal challenges facing the adoption of smart contracts. Smart contracts, like traditional contracts, are agreements signed between two or more parties, based on a set of conditions. If either party breaches the agreed terms, the contract is invalidated and the entire agreement is terminated, with consequences. Instead of relying on complicated paperwork or third-party intermediaries, these transactions are conducted through code that exists on a decentralized blockchain that automatically executes the terms of the agreement. They are much cheaper than a normal contract. Most importantly, security against fraud or manipulation is built into the smart contract mechanism.
Smart contract model for complex reality transaction
Blockchain is widely regarded as a breakthrough innovation that may have a profound impact on the economy and society, of a magnitude comparable to the effects of the introduction of the Internet itself. In essence, a blockchain is a decentralized peer-to-peer network with no central authority figure, which adds information to the distributed database by collectively validating the accuracy of data. Since each node of the network participates in the review and confirmation of the new information before being accepted, the need for a trustworthy intermediary is eliminated. However, as trust plays an essential role in affecting decisions when transacting with one another, it is important to understand which implications the decentralized nature of blockchain may have on individuals' sense of trust. In this contribution, we argue that the adoption of blockchain is not only a technological, but foremostly a psychological challenge, which crucially depends on the possibility of creating a trust management approach that matches the underlying distributed communication system. We first describe the decentralization technologies and possibilities they hold for the near future. Next, we discuss the psycho-social implications of the introduction of decentralized processes of trust, examining some potential scenarios, and outline a research agenda. The blockchain phenomena started within a cryptography mailing list known as Cypherpunks Assange et al.
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Photo by Philipp Katzenberger on Unsplash. This new type of Internet is creating miniature economies where not only humans, but also devices such as your fridge or car, can bid on on-line auctions, trade, and set up contracts in a decentralised environment. The infrastructure uses advanced cryptography to verify information, interactions, and transactions. Thereby, it reduces the need for a traditional trusted third party. It is a more secure infrastructure as well as an economic infrastructure that challenges the way we make decisions and organise the economy in terms of money, banking, ownership, data sharing, and digital interaction. The impact on society is therefore potentially deeper than that of the Web and its http protocol.
In this lecture, we provide an overview of Blockchain systems and systems engineering, focusing on technical details and applications of blockchain systems. We introduce cryptographic hash functions and present their properties. Then the data structure and the working principles of the Bitcoin blockchain are investigated in detail. We analyze the Proof of Work consensus mechanism of Bitcoin and illustrate the mining scheme. Following this, we demonstrate the system architecture of the Ethereum blockchain with a focus on the Ethereum Virtual Machine and smart contracts. Subsequently, the Solidity language is explained in terms of syntax, types, and design.
Beyond improving efficiencies and lowering costs in matching transacting entities, and facilitating faster, more-secure, soft-real time transactions, the blockchain also enables a completely new set of automated rule-based functions for smart contracts Subramanian, Objective We propose a special issue for the Journal of Database Management that invites paper submissions that study interesting questions pertaining to the Blockchain and Smart Contracts in the following research areas. Recommended Topics 1.
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