Advances in Blockchain Challenges
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 4452
Special Issue Editors
Interests: data science; FinTech; AI agent design; blockchain
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a Special Issue on "Advances in Blockchain Challenges", inviting researchers, practitioners, and experts to contribute cutting-edge research and innovative solutions that address the evolving challenges in blockchain technology. With blockchain’s rapid expansion into various industries, such as finance, healthcare, supply chain management, and carbon credit markets, overcoming critical obstacles—scalability, security, privacy, and fraud detection—has never been more pressing.
While blockchain offers decentralized and immutable record-keeping systems, several challenges hinder its full potential. Issues such as limited scalability, high energy consumption, privacy concerns, regulatory hurdles, and transparency in fraud prevention pose significant barriers to widespread adoption. As industries increasingly integrate blockchain to improve transparency, security, and sustainability, addressing these challenges through advanced research and innovative approaches is crucial.
This Special Issue highlights recent advancements in blockchain technology that tackle these obstacles. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Scalability Solutions: Novel approaches to enhance transaction throughput, reduce latency, and improve consensus mechanisms in large-scale blockchain systems.
- Privacy-Preserving Techniques: Advanced cryptographic methods, such as zero-knowledge proofs, homomorphic encryption, and privacy-preserving quantum AI, to ensure user privacy and data security on blockchain platforms.
- Energy Efficiency: Research on reducing the environmental impact of blockchain systems, including energy-efficient consensus algorithms and the integration of green technologies.
- Quantum-Resistant Blockchain: Exploring quantum computing’s impact on blockchain security, including developing quantum-resistant cryptographic protocols and quantum machine learning algorithms that enhance blockchain resilience.
- Blockchain for Carbon Credit Trading: Papers that explore the role of blockchain and smart contracts in carbon credit markets, emphasizing transparency, fraud detection, and compliance with mechanisms such as the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and the Clean Competition Act (CCA). These papers should highlight how blockchain can improve carbon trading efficiency and support sustainability goals.
Dr. Yun-Cheng Tsai
Dr. Samuel Yen-Chi Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- blockchain scalability
- privacy-preserving blockchain
- quantum-resistant blockchain
- carbon credit trading
- blockchain fraud detection
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