Pradipta Agung Wahyu Pratama, Hujjatullah Fazlurrahman, Fresha Kharisma, Muhammad Fajar
This study analyzes the influence of Digital Leadership, Digital Literacy, and Digital Competency on Innovative W This study examines the influence of Digital Leadership, Digital Literacy, and Digital Competency on Innovative Work Behavior (IWB) among Web3 remote workers in Surabaya City. The research is grounded in the transformation of remote work within the Web3 ecosystem, which presents innovation challenges due to limited spontaneous social interaction. This study addresses both a contextual gap, focusing on the underexplored population of Web3 workers, and a methodological gap by integrating three key digital factors into a single analytical framework. A quantitative approach was employed using purposive sampling, involving 70 Web3 remote workers in Surabaya. Data were analyzed using multiple linear regression with SPSS software. The results show that Digital Leadership (β = 0.330), Digital Literacy (β = 0.322), and Digital Competency (β = 0.301) have a positive and significant effect on Innovative Work Behavior (p < 0.05). Simultaneously, the variables significantly influence IWB (F = 45.646), with a coefficient of determination (R²) of 0.675, indicating that 67.5% of the variation in IWB is explained by the model. These findings confirm that the integration of digital leadership, strong digital literacy, and well-developed digital competency plays a critical role in enhancing innovative work behavior in Web3 remote work environments. The study contributes to the development of Upper Echelons Theory in the context of decentralized digital work and provides practical insights for organizations in designing effective digital talent strategies.
Tomi Setiawan, Muhammad Farras Samith, Muhammad Hammam Mughits, Aulia Fitrah Uswatun Hasanah · 5 authors
This study synthesizes Web3-based governance strategies in closed supply chains for electric vehicle batteries in Indonesia, focusing on reducing environmental impacts and improving resource efficiency. It includes a theoretical framework and case studies to address the overall issues in empirical validation and contextual adaptation. This paper aims to expand the governance framework, compare digital product passport implementations, identify incentive mechanisms including CSR integration, quantify regulatory models, and analyze practical case studies. An integrated analysis of multidisciplinary literature, using theoretical modeling, game theory, and empirical case studies, reveals that blockchain-based digital product passports improve transparency and lifecycle traceability but face challenges in large-scale implementation and data standardization. Incentive mechanisms based on game-theoretic frameworks and CSR promote resource efficiency, although empirical evidence in Indonesia remains limited and its social dimensions remain underexplored. A comparative regulatory analysis highlights the relevance of EU policies as a benchmark while also highlighting regulatory gaps and enforcement challenges in Indonesia. The case studies demonstrate the feasibility of Web3 technologies in improving environmental outcomes and operational efficiency, but scalability and stakeholder coordination require further investigation. These findings highlight the need for an integrated, multi-stakeholder governance model that bridges theoretical innovation with practical implementation in Indonesia's unique socio-regulatory context. This study informs future research and policy development to optimize sustainable battery supply chains through digital governance and circular-economy principles.
Academic credential fraud poses a critical challenge to Indonesian higher education, with approximately 30% of job applicants providing false academic qualifications while conventional verification processes require 2–4 weeks with significant administrative costs. This research addresses the gap where 77% of blockchain education research remains conceptual by proposing and evaluating a four-layer blockchain system architecture for academic diploma authentication. Using Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM), the study designs and implements a layered architecture comprising a Presentation Layer (React 18.2.0 with client-side SHA-256 hashing), Application Layer (Node.js 18.20.8 with Web3.js), Data Layer (PostgreSQL 14.5 for off-chain metadata), and Blockchain Layer (DiplomaValidator smart contract in Solidity 0.8.19 on Ganache 2.7.1). The architectural design enforces separation of concerns, enabling tamper-evident credential storage through immutable on-chain hash registration and trustless public verification through zero-gas view functions. Comprehensive evaluation through 38 functional tests, performance benchmarking, security auditing, and integration testing demonstrates 100% pass rate across all categories. Performance metrics show registration in 15.23 ms (240,082 gas units) and verification in 9.47 ms at zero gas cost, achieving 51.81 TPS throughput. Security audit yields 95/100 with zero high or medium vulnerabilities. The primary contribution of this research is a formally documented four-layer blockchain architecture for academic credential authentication validated through DSRM providing a replicable architectural model and quantified performance baselines for the Computer Science community and Indonesian higher education institutions considering blockchain adoption
This paper examines Web3 ecosystems not merely as markets for digital assets, but as networked social spaces where economic transactions give rise to enduring social ties, shared narratives, and collective identities. Leveraging large-scale data mining of fused on-chain blockchain transactions and off-chain social media activity, we analyze over one hundred NFT collections to uncover how different forms of participation structure community formation in decentralized environments. Using network analysis, we identify distinct ecosystem roles, such as long-term holders, active traders, and short-term speculators, and demonstrate how each produces markedly different network topologies, levels of cohesion, and pathways for influence. We complement this structural analysis with discourse analysis of social media engagement, revealing how narrative production, visibility, and sustained interaction persist even as transactional activity declines. Our findings show that communities centered on holding behavior evolve from transactional networks into socially embedded ecosystems characterized by dense ties, decentralized influence, and ongoing cultural participation, while trader- and speculator-dominated networks remain fragmented and transactional. By linking network structure with discursive dynamics, this study provides a sociotechnical framework for understanding how value, identity, and inequality are negotiated in Web3 spaces. The approach offers a scalable method for detecting patterns of inclusion, exclusion, and representational imbalance, advancing network-based research on digital communities beyond purely economic or technical accounts.
As Web3 architecture, artificial intelligence (AI), immersive environments, and connected devices converge, societies are moving from digitally mediated interaction to digitally programmed organisations, reshaping how value, labour, identity, learning, and participation are produced and governed. Programmable money, decentralised identity, AI-driven avatars, digital twins, and immersive environments illustrate how programmability collapses traditional distinctions between infrastructure, governance, and social behaviour. While these systems offer significant potential for inclusion, efficiency, and innovation, they also introduce profound ethical risks. This means that ethical challenges should become core governance elements, as code, data, and automated systems increasingly mediate trust, agency, and power at scale. Ethical failures in digital systems can scale across platforms, populations, and jurisdictions. This paper conceptualises a structural shift in which institutional rules, incentives, and governance functions are increasingly executed directly within programmable digital infrastructure, making ethics, accountability, and trust intrinsic properties of system design.
Blockchain-Driven Healthcare Platform with Access-Controlled Record Management is a decentralized application designed to enhance the security, privacy, and accessibility of medical records. Traditional healthcare systems rely on centralized storage, making sensitive patient data vulnerable to breaches, manipulation, and unauthorized access. This project utilizes blockchain technology to provide a secure and tamper-proof environment for storing and managing healthcare data. Smart contracts are implemented to enforce access control, allowing patients to grant or revoke permission to doctors and healthcare providers. Medical records are securely stored using decentralized storage mechanisms, while blockchain maintains immutable references to ensure data integrity. The platform integrates Web3 technologies for secure user authentication and seamless interaction with the blockchain network. By eliminating intermediaries, the system improves transparency and trust among stakeholders. This solution demonstrates an efficient approach to managing healthcare data, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability while addressing the limitations of traditional healthcare record systems in a modern, digital environment.
O estudo investiga barreiras de usabilidade em aplicações de Finanças Descentralizadas (DeFi) executadas em redes compatíveis com a Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), mostrando que problemas de fluxo, terminologia e feedback comprometem a adoção, especialmente entre iniciantes. Para enfrentar essas limitações, o trabalho propõe uma interface de usuário aprimorada e a compara a uma versão não otimizada usando métricas de desempenho, número de cliques e o questionário NASA-TLX. Os resultados indicam que a interface melhorada elevou a taxa de conclusão de tarefas de 76% para 89%, reduziu os cliques excedentes de 221 para 186 e diminuiu a carga cognitiva global aferida pelo NASA-TLX em todas as seis dimensões avaliadas, com destaque para demanda mental e frustração, inclusive entre usuários experientes, que relataram maior fluidez e previsibilidade. O artigo conclui que refinamentos de usabilidade voltados para aplicações financeiras descentralizadas são determinantes para elevar confiança e adoção, recomendando a padronização de processos, mensagens menos técnicas e a redução de etapas críticas para mitigar a fadiga de operações e ampliar o alcance da Web3.
Nehaam Khan, Mohd. Aadil Shaikh, Atul Upadhyay, Dr. Vaishali Ramtekkar
The rapid growth of the event management industry has exposed significant challenges in traditional ticketing systems, including ticket fraud, duplication, unauthorized resale, and lack of transparency, as centralized platforms often fail to provide verifiable ownership and are vulnerable to manipulation. This paper proposes an NFT-Based Ticketing System that leverages blockchain technology to create a secure, decentralized, and transparent solution where each ticket is represented as a unique Non-Fungible Token (NFT) on the Polygon blockchain, ensuring immutability and authenticity. Smart contracts automate ticket minting, ownership transfer, resale regulation, and royalty distribution, enabling fair secondary market practices while maintaining control for event organizers. The system also incorporates a QR-based verification mechanism for real-time validation at event venues, preventing duplication and unauthorized access. Implemented as a decentralized application (DApp) using Web3 technologies and tested on the Polygon Mumbai testnet, the system demonstrates improved security, reduced fraud, efficient transaction handling, and enhanced user experience, thereby transforming traditional ticketing into a reliable and trustless digital ecosystem.
Web3 prediction markets, exemplified by Polymarket, have gained prominence for leveraging collective intelligence to forecast a wide range of social, political, and sports events. However, among the thousands of prediction market events, consensus disputes still arise due to imperfections in market mechanisms. On Polymarket alone, the trading volume involving disputed events has reached $972,370,804.71, underscoring the critical need for objective and efficient dispute resolution. In this study, we introduce large language models (LLMs) to: (1) evaluate whether web-enabled LLMs can reproduce the decision quality of UMA's on-chain voting process once a dispute has been raised, and (2) predict, based on event rules, which market events are likely to face future disputes before they occur. Our findings show that LLMs are unable to reliably predict which events will become disputed in advance; however, once a dispute is initiated, web-enabled LLMs achieve 89.58% agreement with UMA's final resolutions and demonstrate strong stability.
Divya Badwaik, Namo S. Shende, Shantanu N. Wankhede, Prajwal V. Gourkhede · 6 authors
The increasing demand for secure, transparent, and efficient electoral systems has led to the exploration of advanced digital technologies in voting processes. Traditional voting systems, including paper-based and electronic voting machines, are often associated with challenges such as lack of transparency, susceptibility to tampering, centralized control, and delayed result processing. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes VOTECHAIN, a blockchain-based electronic voting system that leverages the decentralized and immutable nature of blockchain technology to ensure trust and security in elections. The proposed system is built on the Ethereum blockchain using smart contracts, which automate critical operations such as voter registration, candidate registration, vote casting, and result computation. Each vote is treated as a secure transaction and is recorded on a distributed ledger, making it tamper-proof and verifiable. The system ensures that each voter can cast only one vote while maintaining voter anonymity through cryptographic techniques. A web-based decentralized application (VOTECHAIN) is developed using Web3.js and MetaMask to facilitate user interaction with the blockchain network. The system is tested using Ethereum test networks, demonstrating efficient performance, secure transaction handling, and transparent vote counting. The results indicate that blockchain technology can significantly enhance the reliability and integrity of electronic voting systems.
India’s aspiration to emerge as a developed nation by 2047 under the vision of Viksit Bharat necessitates the identification and scaling of localized innovations. Odisha, characterized by its socio-cultural diversity and rapid technological transition, presents a compelling case as a living laboratory for future-ready developmental models. This study positions Odisha at the intersection of three transformative domains: algorithmic welfare systems, governance challenges arising from silent urbanization, and the digitization of cultural heritage through Web3 technologies such as NFTs. By integrating quantitative modeling, qualitative fieldwork, and policy analysis, the study proposes a framework for culturally rooted, inclusive, and decentralized development. The findings suggest that Odisha’s experiments in adaptive welfare delivery, the recognition of hybrid urban spaces, and digital cultural economies not only address local challenges but also offer scalable insights for national policy. The state thus emerges as a microcosm of a technologically empowered, socially equitable, and culturally vibrant Viksit Bharat.
Purpose - This study examines how Web3 technologies—including blockchain, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and decentralized finance (DeFi)—affect the business models of sports organizations and the engagement behavior of fans. The research evaluates both the revenue and loyalty opportunities created by digital assets and the financial risks and regulatory challenges they introduce. Design/methodology/approach - A mixed-methods approach is employed, combining blockchain analytics, big data and social media monitoring, expert interviews, ethnographic observation of online fan communities, and systematic case analysis of NBA Top Shot, Chiliz/Socios.com, Sorare, and related platforms. Theoretical grounding draws on the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) paradigm, the Fan Attitude Network (FAN) model, and Social Identity Theory (SIT). Findings - Fan tokens and NFTs create new revenue streams and deepen supporter loyalty through exclusive access, participatory governance, and gamified interactions. However, empirical evidence reveals high price volatility, speculative investor behavior, misleading marketing, and an unclear regulatory environment that expose fans to financial risk. Emerging markets such as Azerbaijan face additional structural barriers—limited fan culture depth, nascent regulation, and underdeveloped digital infrastructure—that preclude near-term viability of NFT-based fan engagement. Originality/value - This article is among the first to systematically integrate governance, financial risk, and regulatory dimensions of Web3 in sports within a single framework, moving beyond prior work focused narrowly on marketing and financial performance. It offers actionable implications for sports organizations, regulators, and platform developers. Research limitations/implications - The study is constrained by the rapidly evolving nature of Web3 technologies, jurisdictional variation in regulatory frameworks, and limited blockchain data accessibility for some platforms.
El Canon de la Soberanía Infraestructural La presente publicación constituye la respuesta oficial y técnico-científica del Ecosistema TAMV ONLINE frente a los dilemas de la ética digital en contextos de desigualdad estructural. En un escenario global donde la tecnología suele ser impuesta desde centros de poder hegemónicos, este documento marca un hito al presentar una Arquitectura Civilizatoria nacida en el Sur Global (Real del Monte, Hidalgo, México), diseñada para transformar la ética de un discurso abstracto en una infraestructura ejecutable. A diferencia de las propuestas teóricas tradicionales, esta obra se fundamenta en la praxis de su CEO y Arquitecto Jefe, Edwin Oswaldo Castillo Trejo, quien articula una defensa de la "Tecnodiversidad" mediante el despliegue de sistemas reales, auditables y soberanos. Descripción del Documento: Protocolo TAMV-SOVEREIGN-ARCH v1.0 El documento se estructura como un Marco de Gobernanza y Estándar Técnico unificado, desglosando los pilares que permiten a una comunidad transitar de la dependencia tecnológica a la autoría digital. A través de sus secciones, el lector encontrará: Validación Académica Inmutable: El uso estratégico de Identificadores Persistentes (PIDs) como ORCID, DOI y ISNI, que blindan la producción intelectual del Sur Global frente al extractivismo epistémico. Arquitectura de Kernel MD-X: La descripción técnica de los motores de observabilidad (MD-X4) y evolución (MD-X5), capaces de absorber y reconfigurar sistemas externos bajo normativas éticas territoriales (Protocolo Hoyo Negro). Mediación Cognitiva e IA Ética: El despliegue de Isabella Villaseñor AI, una inteligencia artificial gobernada por el UTAMV AI Academic Core, que prioriza la formación humana y la Taxonomía de Bloom sobre la automatización comercial. Implementación Phygital: El caso de estudio de RDM Digital, demostrando cómo la Web3 y el Metaverso pueden revitalizar economías locales y proteger el patrimonio cultural sin ceder la soberanía de los datos. Framework de Evaluación: Un estándar exportable diseñado para que gobiernos e instituciones evalúen su nivel de autonomía digital y resistencia frente al colonialismo de datos. Este documento es, en esencia, el plano arquitectónico para la libertad digital, estableciendo que la única ética universal posible es aquella que se programa en la infraestructura y se vive en el territorio.
Education 3.0, AI and HyFi are the three pillars of the Kohenoor Ecosystem where Education is the enabler and this perhaps is the only way to transform the world into a more productive and future-embracing place. This document presents a defensive technical disclosure describing a Hybrid-Finance (HyFi) CeDeFi operational infrastructure developed by Kohenoor Technologies. The architecture integrates Education 3.0, Multilayered Hybrid Intelligence Engine and programmable decentralized settlement execution, supervised decision processes, structured governance control, and workforce operational enablement into a coordinated financial operating framework. The system is intended to enable organizations to operate blockchain-based financial processes as recurring business operations rather than isolated transactions. It defines coordinated operational layers consisting of settlement mapping, intelligence interpretation, supervised decision execution, and human operational readiness. The disclosure documents the research progression, implementation embodiments, and architectural definitions of the system and is published to establish publicly verifiable prior art. The referenced implementations illustrate functional embodiments and do not limit the architecture to any specific network, software platform, or digital asset. Also attached herewith is the executive overview of Kohenoor Ecosystem R&D, finalized after seven years of rigorous research, testing, and model refinement. Lead Researcher: Ahmad Bilal Khan, Founder of Kohenoor Technologies and principal architect of the KAI Alpha+ framework. ORCID Profile A cryptographic timestamp proof accompanies this publication to attest to the existence of the document at the time of disclosure. Test ProEdge(Alpha): kenhyfi.kohenoor.tech Keywords: #kenhyfi #kai #hyfi #kohenoortechnologies #futureofeducation #futureoffinance #futureofai #kohenoorken #cryptocurrencies #kohenoorken #AI #actionai #agenticai #AGI #ArtificialGeneralIntelligenceAGI #AIAssistant #education3 #defi #hybridfinance #hyfi #cedefi #blockchain #innovation #settlements #auditreadycertificates #DASC #cybersecurity #web3 #businessintelligence #proedge #industrygradetrainings #quantumcomputing
Platform monopolies have turned the contemporary internet into digital feudalism, extracting profit from human connection while enabling surveillance and censorship. Iran’s 2019 near-blackout, which cut connectivity to 5 %, exposed how centralized architectures become authoritarian chokepoints. Yet scholarship remains fragmented: most studies isolate protocols instead of synthesizing how technical design and political economy co-evolve. We compare federated systems such as ReP2P Matrix, Nostr’s peer-to-peer networks, Bluesky’s AT Protocol, blockchain communication hybrids, and Named Data Networking. Our multi-method study of decentralized internet alternatives blends traffic analytics of 4 million Nostr users on 600 relays, performance benchmarks, economic sustainability modeling, and architectural case studies. We ask whether these designs can fulfil the promise of a truly decentralized internet. The evidence is mixed. SendingNetwork scales group messaging linearly, and Waku proves spam-resistant peer-to-peer networks with <300 ms proof generation; however, no single protocol reconciles censorship resistance, usability, and economic sustainability. Nostr delivers uncompromising censorship resistance yet consumes 35 × the resources of centralized systems. Bluesky’s growth leaves 98.9 % of identities non-portable. Community mesh networks invite new hierarchies of technical privilege. Accepting irreducible trade-offs must guide emerging web3 governance. Communities will choose architectures aligned with their values, but meaningful decentralization will remain aspirational until funding models and accessibility gaps are resolved.
SHAIK SANA SHAIK SANA, N. SOUJANYA N. SOUJANYA, MOHAMMED MAJEED MOHAMMED MAJEED, BUCHI PAVITHRA BUCHI PAVITHRA · 6 authors
In the current digital era, social media platforms have become pivotal for individuals to express their opinions, political views, and product reviews. However, the centralized nature of traditional social media systems poses significant risks related to data breaches, server crashes, and single points of failure. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel approach to migrate from centralized to decentralized social media platforms by leveraging Blockchain technology. Blockchain ensures data immutability, decentralized storage, and enhanced security by distributing data across multiple nodes. Any tampering with data is immediately detectable due to the cryptographic linkage of data blocks through unique SHA-256 hash codes. The proposed system, named dTweets, enables users to post and view tweets securely using smart contracts written in Solidity and deployed on the Ethereum network. This decentralization prevents fraudulent users from spreading misinformation or unauthorized advertisements. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system achieves strong data integrity, tamper resistance, and transparent operation while maintaining acceptable transaction latency. This implementation provides a robust foundation for a secure and tamper-proof social media ecosystem. KEYWORDS : Blockchain, Decentralized Social Media, Data Security, Privacy Protection, Smart Contracts, SHA-256, Proof of Work, Distributed Ledger, Ethereum, Solidity, dTweets, Secure Data Storage, Web3.
Decentralized identity (DID) systems promise improved privacy, user control, and interoperability in regulated digital identity verification, including in banking contexts. However, existing DID implementations often introduce usability barriers that limit adoption, particularly for non-technical users navigating Know-Your-Customer (KYC) onboarding—a mandatory process requiring banks to verify customer identity to prevent fraud and financial crime. This poster presents a UX-centred, four-phase mixed-methods investigation comparing a high-fidelity DID-based onboarding prototype with a traditional Web2 (centralised, platform-owned) KYC flow. Results show that DID significantly reduced task completion time (178s vs. 665s), improved perceived usability (SUS: 93.4 vs. 71.3), and increased user trust (6.1 vs. 5.1 on a 7-point scale). At the same time, wallet setup, private-key management, and the absence of onboarding-phase recovery guidance remain critical sources of user anxiety. We contribute five user-centered design principles for DID-enabled financial onboarding and discuss implications for designers working at the intersection of Web3 (decentralised, blockchain-based systems), fintech, and regulated digital services.
Blockchain - based e-voting systems use decentralized ledgers to securely record encrypted votes, ensuring immutability, transparency, and tamper-proofverification without central authorities. These systems such as the existing BP-Vot framework integrate smart contracts, k,ε differential privacy, and self-sovereign identities (SSI) to balance transparency, security, and voter anonymity in remote elections. BP-Vot deploys on Hyperledger Besu, using a single pivot candidate to redistribute votes probabilistically (θ=1/d), achieving 98%+ vote approximation accuracy via Min-Max regression and 1s/TX latency—24% better than prior art—while proving robustness against reconstruction attacks. However, limitations include single-pivot privacy fragility in low- volume elections, partial reliance on election authority for key registration, and untested scalability beyond 50k votes or additional nodes.This work proposes a multi pivot parallel differential privacy extension, dynamically selecting multiple pivots for distributed noise injection, fully integrated with SSI Web3 wallets and immutable contracts. Benefits encompass superior anonymity for millions of votes, eliminated centralization risks, and optimized performance for national-scale deployments. Evaluation confirm linearprivacy/accuracy gains with vote volume, independent of candidate count, enabling GDPR-compliant, trustless e-voting superior to state-of-the-art. Keywords: Blockchain, e-voting systems, decentralized ledgers, BP-Vot framework, Hyperledger Besu, Min-Maxregression, SSI Web3 wallets
DeFree is a unified Web3-enabled platform designed to integrate freelancing, event management, and real-time community communication into a single decentralised ecosystem. Traditional platforms often suffer from high commission fees, a lack of transparency, and centralised control over transactions. DeFree addresses these limitations by leveraging Ethereum-based smart contracts for trustless escrow payments, ERC-721 NFTs for secure event ticketing, and Socket.IO for real-time communication. The platform is built using React, TypeScript, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and Solidity-based smart contracts deployed on the Ethereum Sepolia testnet. Experimental evaluation demonstrates efficient system performance with API response times under 250 ms and real-time messaging latency below 200 ms. The proposed system enhances transparency, reduces dependency on intermediaries, and provides a scalable solution for decentralised collaboration.
This white paper proposes a structural architecture for Execution Governance (EG) in Web3, including DAOs and DeFi protocols. It addresses a critical governance gap in decentralized systems: the implicit conflation of governance approval with execution authority, where the ability of a proposal to pass a vote is often treated as sufficient authority for irreversible on-chain effect. Aligned with EG 2.0 v1.4 and EG 2.1, the paper introduces a dedicated, non-bypassable execution boundary between governance intent and on-chain execution. It formalizes authority-anchored admissibility, continuity preservation from proposal to transaction finality, continuity verification for valid-looking drift, and commit semantics that guarantee no committed effect on the governed execution target upon governance failure. The paper also provides a conformance framework, maturity model, governance failure model, and illustrative Web3 scenarios covering treasury controls, oracle drift, sanctions conflict resolution, and emergency governance. It is presented as a conceptual architecture proposal intended to support scholarly discussion and future implementation work on accountable, verifiable, and resilient decentralized autonomous systems.
Decentralized identity (DID) is a key infrastructure for Web3, granting users sovereign control over their private identity data. While existing DID systems like FADID-TT (WWW'25) realize anonymity and traceability within a single domain, the Web3 ecosystem is a multiverse of independent domains like DeFi, GameFi, and DAO. This multi-domain reality presents critical issues for current DID solutions. First, most existing solutions are built on the monolithic committee architecture, facing severe scalability bottlenecks as the committee size grows. Second, most existing solutions cannot offer strong cross-domain anonymity, where frequent cross-domain interaction inevitably exposes the user's privacy. Third, existing methods for tracing the identities of malicious users are inefficient.
Surya Bahadur Kathayat, Magnus Svendsen, Brage Hagemann Brataas
Web3 applications strive to enable decentralization and user sovereignty, but often remain inaccessible to mainstream users due to complex onboarding and unfamiliar interaction paradigms. This study presents a Web2-inspired onboarding solution that integrates an embedded custodial wallet with OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication via Vipps, a Norwegian bank-backed identity provider with over 4.6 million verified users. The proposed approach abstracts wallet management and removes the need for seed-phrase setup while introducing real-world identity assurance into the Web3 environment. A blockchain-based Battleship proof-of-concept was developed to demonstrate the approach, aiming to make Web3 interactions more intuitive and trustworthy. A mixed-method evaluation, combining usability testing and semi-structured interviews, revealed that integrating familiar login flows with verified identities improves usability, conceptual understanding, and both peer and ecosystem trust. The findings suggest that leveraging centralized identity providers can act as a pragmatic bridge between Web2 and Web3, potentially lowering initial onboarding barriers.
Cheri Venkata Sai, Gurijela Pavan, Pittala Abhirameshwar, S. Suma
These come hand in hand with unprecedented levels of complexity in copyrighting and mon- etizing creations. In general, this protects the copyrights under the existing framework, which are cen- tralized, expensive, and beyond the reach of any independent creator. This paper presents an innovative blockchain-based framework for image copyrighting and social crypto monetization by using blockchain technologies such as Ethereum smart contracts and the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). The proposed framework enables creators to publish digital images, calculate cryptographic proofs of image ownership with the SHA-256 hashing algorithm, store images in IPFS, and record metadata into the blockchain with unchanged timestamps. In addition, the platform supports “Like to Earn”, where public engagement for viewing is translated directly into rewarding creators with cryptocurrencies via smart contracts. The proposed framework adopts Web3 technologies to enable secure signing of all transactions with fraud prevention using the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) technique through MetaMask wallet authentication. Experimental evaluation of the proposed framework confirms that it can remove duplicate uploads, promptly verify image ownership, and enable social monetization of cryptocurrencies in a secured way.
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Abstract— The rapid growth of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology has significantly increased the demand for platforms that enable users to efficiently explore and verify blockchain transactions. This paper presents the design and development of an Ethereum Blockchain Explorer (Multi-Chain), a web-based platform that provides a centralized interface for accessing blockchain data such as transactions, wallet addresses, and block details. The system is implemented using modern web technologies, particularly React.js, to ensure a responsive and intuitive interface. It allows users to search blockchain records using transaction hashes, wallet addresses, or block numbers. By integrating multiple blockchain networks into a single platform, the system enhances accessibility and usability of blockchain information for developers, researchers, and general users. The proposed system demonstrates improved multi-chain support and provides a more user-friendly experience compared to traditional single-chain blockchain explorers. Keywords— Blockchain Explorer, Ethereum, Multi-Chain, Smart Contracts, RPC, Web3, React.js