The article is the outcome of a study the authors undertook to find out answers to the scalability issue faced in adoption of Blockchain technology in the insurance industry and on the prevalent concerns of experts in deploying this technology on large scale.In this article, we have captured the...

Epidemics, such as COVID-19, have serious consequences globally, of which the most effective way to control the infection is contact tracing. Nowadays, research releated to privacy-preserving epidemic infection control for has been conducted, nevertheless, current researches do not regard the...

The object of research is software for financial accounting and distribution of funds in a non-profit charitable foundation using smart contracts of the Ethereum platform. The work is aimed at designing and implementing a software application for a charitable foundation, which allows to exclude...

Trading at decentralized exchanges (DEXs) requires traders to bid blockchain fees to determine the execution priority of their orders. We employ a structural vector-autoregressive (structural VAR) model to provide evidence that DEX trades with high fees not only reveal more private information,...

The increasing interest in Fintech, Blockchain, and Digitalization in Islamic Finance created a new area in the literature, requiring a systematic review of these academic publications. The scope of the analysis is limited to journal articles to understand the trends in the indexed journals....

Although blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity over the past years, there does not seem to be a consensus if they bring any value to economic interactions. In this paper, I argue that a fundamental value the blockchain provides is commitment. I develop a model of an...