In the Uniswap Protocol, a price oracle is a tool used to view price information about a given asset over time and enables developers to build highly decentralized protocols with quantifiable manipulation costs using price feeds. With the adoption of Proof of Stake (PoS), oracles are...

This paper studies the use of distributed ledger technologies in the trading and settlement of foreign exchange (FX) on public blockchains as well as use cases in international payments. We compare the traditional trading and settlement of FX with blockchain-based implementations using payment...

Accounting is frequently described and recognized as the language of business because theexternal financial reporting function is extensively used as a principal means of communicatingresults of corporate economic activity to interested external parties. However, deficiencies withrespect to the...

Stablecoins---digital currencies pegged to an external reference (e.g., the US dollar)---play an increasingly important role in transacting digital currencies. However, with a peg to an external reference comes the risk that the peg breaks and, akin to runs on other financial instruments, the...

Stablecoins---digital currencies pegged to an external reference (e.g., the US dollar)---play an increasingly important role in transacting digital currencies. However, with a peg to an external reference comes the risk that the peg breaks and, akin to runs on other financial instruments, the...

Reservoir sedimentation is a severe problem because it leads to the loss of reservoir storage capacity. Therefore, the sustainable management of water and sediment constitutes a critical measure in reservoir operation. In this research, a model of similarity-based operation method of water and...

The Hexi corridor region lies in the arid and semiarid regions of Gansu Province, China. The sensitive ecological environment has undergone severe desertification caused by natural environmental change and unsustainable exploitation of the region. Remote sensing and GIS are being used to study...

The occurrence of extreme weather events and the ongoing promotion of carbon emission reduction present substantial challenges for China's electricity security situation. As a result, it is crucial to improve security risk perception skills, strengthen monitoring and evaluation of the...