Blockchain-Based Entrepreneurship Fostering Digital Transformation: Insights from a Systematic Review

Abstract

Blockchain drives digital transformation in entrepreneurship by enhancing innovation, operational efficiency, and sustainable business practices. Alongside this development, big data analytics for sentiment insights plays an essential role in understanding public perception and consumer behavior, enabling strategic and data-driven decision-making. Blockchain's decentralized structure promotes transparency, security, and trust among stakeholders, supporting scalable and accountable business ecosystems. This study systematically reviews big data-driven sentiment analysis methods applied to blockchain-based entrepreneurial contexts such as ICOs, DeFi, and Web3 startups. It maps data sources, machine learning and deep learning architectures, and sentiment analysis tasks, explaining how sentiment insights contribute to investment evaluation, market prediction, and risk mitigation. Although blockchain offers significant benefits, its integration faces major challenges including ecosystem readiness, regulatory uncertainty, and limited workforce capability. This study highlights blockchain's role in improving competitiveness and sustainability, while identifying barriers and strategic responses needed to support innovation in digital entrepreneurship.