The crowdfunding enigma has attained enormous assiduity around the world while its existing condition and potentiality for divergent advancement in Developing, Emerging, and Transition Economies (DETE) captured less attention. In the light of this interest, this book chapter explores the present...

The Ethereum blockchain is a decentralized computing platform providing peer-to-peer financial services. Decentralized exchanges, which run on the blockchain, enable matching of buyers and sellers without any central third party, and are distinct from the centralized “off-chain”...

Blinkchain proposes a solution to eliminate low-throughput consensuses with a time-based model in which the propagation of blocks required to be sent across validators in a certain time period that can exponentially grow when the network nodes actively upgrade themselves with bandwidth,...

A smart mutual peer-to-peer insurance contract is a financial innovation that combines blockchain technology and a mutual insurance contract. This paper constructs a three-stage game theory model of the mutual insurance platform. The role of blockchain technology in solving the claim fraud...

The study at hand delves into the technologies composing blockchain and designates its most significant practical applications to date. The technological ecosystem identified through this investigation is then scrutinized from the perspective of intellectual property law. It examines, in...

Blockchain technologies are designed to promote decentralization and self-governance in economic and social settings. In the context of platforms, an early claim of some proponents of these technologies was that blockchains would promote disintermediation, replacing intermediaries with...

Energy traders and investors may need help with the process for various reasons. Therefore, technology can be used to streamline the process for all parties involved. Using blockchain in energy trading has the potential to transform the industry entirely.Research and discussion on the connection...

Given the potential benefits of blockchain, it is imperative to incorporate a stable decentralized governance structure capable of promoting network value and reliability through a set of community-agreed rules and behaviors. Political scientist Elinor Ostrom’s polycentric approach to...

Many individuals are unaware of the complex behind the scenes processes which facilitate the delivery of digital advertisements on web pages. One such process, known as Real-Time Bidding, involves an automated auction between advertisers, executed in the time that it takes for a user to load a...