2026 September - 10 articles
Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading combines local energy resources, market coordination, data-driven decisions, and transaction management. This review examines how machine learning (ML) and blockchain are used across these functions and separates mar...
Public procurement tenders in Bulgaria are in the focus of public attention, despite the transparency of the process, which is conducted online through the Public Procurement Agency platform, participants require greater trust in the conduct of the p...
Blockchain-based infrastructures have increasingly been adopted for secure and tamper-resistant management of academic credentials. Despite the advantages offered by blockchain technology, existing blockchain-based credential management systems conti...
Despite significant advances in electronic voting technologies, voter accreditation in many electoral systems remains vulnerable to identity fraud, database tampering, equipment failure, and centralized security breaches. Existing accreditation solut...
Blockchain technology (BCT) is often discussed as digital support for timber traceability in the context of the EU Deforestation-Free Products Regulation (EUDR), which requires operators and traders to demonstrate legality, deforestation-free product...
This paper develops an analytical framework for the joint design of central bank digital currency (CBDC) and its underlying ledger architecture. We treat a digital monetary system as a tuple M = (S, R, C, I)—supply state, rule set, circulation...
Cryptocurrency market infrastructure—public blockchains and cross-chain bridges supporting tens of billions in liquidity—is monitored as a systemic-risk surface by the Financial Stability Board and equivalent bodies, with defensive postur...
This article examines Liquid Equity Rewards (LERs), a proposed blockchain-enabled mechanism designed to provide shareholders with time-weighted, utility-only incentives as a potential tool for improving corporate governance. LERs employ a dual archit...
Heterogeneous cross-domain networks are plagued by fragmented trust, data silos, and privacy risks, while conventional single-chain architectures fail to reconcile cross-chain interoperability, regulatory compliance, and commercial privacy. To addres...
As a major cost in decentralized asset swapping, slippage is commonly measured as the relative deviation between realized and expected outcomes. However, existing studies adopt different benchmarks, leading to ambiguity in terminology and the positio...
