Education Evaluation Management Based on Blockchain Technology

Banking on Blockchain: Costs Savings Thanks to the Blockchain Technology

This paper looks at the challenges and opportunities of implementing blockchain technology across banking, providing food for thought about the potentialities of this disruptive technology. The blockchain technology can optimize the global financial infrastructure, achieving sustainable development, using more efficient systems than at present. In fact, many banks are currently focusing on bloc...

A Secure Shopping Experience Based on Blockchain and Beacon Technology

The present work proposes a novel approach for a future shopping system. Customers’ personal data are protected by a blockchainbased storage network. Based on the bitcoin protocol, the system transacts encrypted data in a tamper-proof way and is able to run secure multiparty computations while no one but the data owner has access to the input data. Thus, a potential customer is able to allow a ...

Blockchain Technology in Finance

EduCTX: A Blockchain-Based Higher Education Credit Platform

Blockchain technology enables the creation of a decentralized environment where transactions and data are not under the control of any third party organization. Any transaction ever completed is recorded in a public ledger in a verifiable and permanent way. Based on blockchain technology, we propose a global higher education credit platform, named EduCTX. This platform is based on the concept o...

Blockchain-based sharing services: What blockchain technology can contribute to smart cities

Background: The notion of smart city has grown popular over the past few years. It embraces several dimensions depending on the meaning of the word “smart” and benefits from innovative applications of new kinds of information and communications technology to support communal sharing. Methods: By relying on prior literature, this paper proposes a conceptual framework with three dimensions: (1) h...