Blockchain Papers

Kathrin Blömer

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Andreas Wagener

In jüngster Zeit wird im Kontext digitaler Technologien intensiv über ein weiteres Phänomen diskutiert: das Metaverse – und, damit oft verknüpft, ebenso über eine Weiterentwicklung der bestehenden digitalen Netzstrukturen zu einem neuen...

Akshat Parikh

This paper presents an architectural overview and detailed design of the Krypton network, the first decentralized search engine built on Web3 principles. Krypton leverages blockchain technology, token-driven incentives, and privacy-focused features to revolutionize internet search. The proposed solution incorporates distributed storage, decentralized web crawling and indexing, a consensus mechanism, open-source search algorithms, and a privacy-focused search experience. Krypton introduces the novel concept of Proof of Learning, a machine learning protocol embedded in the search engine to facilitate the discovery of decentralized platforms and enable direct peer-to-peer networking. The system also employs decentralized cloud technologies (validators in the PoS blockchain) to promote enhanced decentralization and encryption, paving the way for a more secure and equitable internet.

Leon Yehuda Anidjar, Nizan Geslevich Packin, Argyri Panezi

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Synim Selimi, Blerim Rexha, Kamer Vishi

The rapid evolution of the Internet, particularly the emergence of Web3, has transformed the ways people interact and share data. Web3, although still not well defined, is thought to be a return to the decentralization of corporations' power over user data. Despite the obsolescence of the idea of building systems to detect and prevent cyber intrusions, this is still a topic of interest. This paper proposes a novel conceptual approach for implementing decentralized collaborative intrusion detection networks (CIDN) through a proof-of-concept. The study employs an analytical and comparative methodology, examining the synergy between cutting-edge Web3 technologies and information security. The proposed model incorporates blockchain concepts, cyber non-fungible token (cyberNFT) rewards, machine learning algorithms, and publish/subscribe architectures. Finally, the paper discusses the strengths and limitations of the proposed system, offering insights into the potential of decentralized cybersecurity models.

Jakub Wyczik

This article addresses the lack of comprehensive studies on Web3 technologies, primarily due to lawyers' reluctance to explore technical intricacies. Understanding the underlying technological foundations is crucial to enhance the credibility of legal opinions. This article aims to illuminate these foundations, debunk myths, and concentrate on determining the legal status of crypto-assets in the context of property rights within the distributed economy. In addition, this article notes that the intangible nature of crypto-assets that derive value from distributed registries, and their resistance to deletion, makes crypto-assets more akin to the autonomy of intellectual property than physical media. The article presents illustrative examples from common law (United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand) and civil law (Germany, Austria, Poland) systems. Proposing a universal solution, it advocates a comprehensive framework safeguarding digital property - data ownership - extending beyond the confines of Web3. This article presents a comprehensive, multi-layered approach to the analysis of tokens as digital content and virtual goods. The approach, universally applicable to various of such goods, scrutinizes property on three distinct layers: first, the rights to the virtual good itself; second, the rights to the assets linked to the virtual good; and third, the rights to the intellectual property intricately associated with the token. Additionally, the paper provides concise analysis of the conflict of laws rules applicable to virtual goods. It also delves into issues concerning formal requirements for the transfer of intellectual property rights, licensing, the first sale (exhaustion) doctrine, the concept of the lawful acquirer, and other crucial aspects of intellectual property in the realm of virtual goods, particularly within the emerging metaverse.

Carlos Bendicho, Daniel Bendicho

This article shows a brief history of Techno-Economic Assessment (TEA) in Communications, a proposed redefinition of TEA as well as the new challenges derived from a dynamic context with cloud-native virtualized networks, the Helium Network & alike blockchain-based decentralized networks, the new network as a platform (NaaP) paradigm, carbon pricing, network sharing, and web3, metaverse and blockchain technologies. The authors formulate the research question and show the need to improve TEA models to integrate and manage all this increasing complexity. This paper also proposes the characteristics TEA models should have and their current degree of compliance for several use cases: 5G and beyond, software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), secure access service edge (SASE), secure service edge (SSE), and cloud cybersecurity risk assessment. The authors also present TEA extensibility to request for proposals (RFP) processes and other industries, to conclude that there is an urgent need for agile and effective TEA in Comms that allows industrialization of agile decision-making for all market stakeholders to choose the optimal solution for any technology, scenario and use case.

Prof. Dr. Eric Wagner Rechtsanwalt< in Stuttgart, Dr. Moritz Holm-Hadulla Rechtsanwalt< in Stuttgart, Dr. Marc Ruttloff Rechtsanwalt< in Stuttgart

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Huawei Huang, Lu Liu, Sicong Zhou, Zibin Zheng

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T. M. Nithya, A. Amrita Varsheni, S. Brindha

The volume of information on the internet is currently rising dramatically. Social media platforms/e-commerce market place is producing a lot of data, including reviews, comments, and opinions, every day. As there are a number of fake reviews should incorporate Spam detection to produce a genuine opinion. Fake reviews are growing problem in online shopping, and they have a significant impact on consumer’s decision-making. Many people today base their decisions when choosing a product or service on social media opinions. Because so many false or phoney evaluations have been written by businesses or individuals for a variety of reasons, detecting opinion spam is a difficult and time-consuming task. They produce fictitious reviews to deceive users or automated detection systems by elevating or degrading the reputations of their target products in order to elevate or lower them. In this article, we’ll regulate it by leveraging blockchain technology to make the review system more authentic by allowing only legitimate product purchasers to submit evaluations using their account credentials. We use the Ethereum blockchain to authenticate user credentials, and we only permit verified users to purchase things. Also, we only permit customers to leave reviews or comments on products, ensuring that the reviews are accurate.

André Cardoso

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – DAOs constitute a new form of collective organization in the digital era. They usually relate to the use of blockchain technology, that ensures decentralization. DAOs rely on smart contracts to define their functioning rules and their operation. In general, DAOs are not related to traditional corporate forms and are not necessarily registered or recognized by law as corporates or associations. In any case, DAOs enable a new kind of governance, a governance based on technology and based on the use of smart contracts deployed on a blockchain network. In this sense, they could represent a revolution on collective governance. A revolution that could shape governance in the digital era. For this reason, DAOs could be the governance tool of Web3. The use of tokens as means of participation and voting by the members of a DAO provide a new technology tool that can combine law, governance, game theory, and behavioral economics. DAOs themselves could be viewed as technology tools that could transform governance in general and even democratic participation. The paper examines these issues and try to critically evaluate the potential and possible caveats of using DAOs as a governance tool. It demonstrates that the idea of decentralized governance in DAOs is similar to decentralization of governance of open-source software. The paper also highlights that the notion of modularity present in the open-source scene is also present in the blockchain technology realm and could be transposed to governance in DAOs. This modularity also contributes to the disruptive nature of governance in and by DAOs. As demonstrated in the paper, DAOs are true catalysts of law, governance and technology and represent the future of governance systems. The article refers that DAOs enable the coexistence of multiple democratic governance stacks. In any case, also mentions that some problems could arise from these multiple governance instances, as the fragmentation of the collectivity, the difficulties associated with the choice of the governance modules, the risk to the democratic principles in creating partial democratic instances, and the risks associated with a technocracy. At the end, considering all the benefits and risks related to the use of these new digital collective governance tools, the article concludes that DAOs can be considered the future of governance systems.

Valerie Laturnus

The advent of blockchain, smart contracts, and Web3 has empowered new concepts for equity partnerships with autonomous operating systems and democratic corporate governance. This paper explores 2,377 of such new partnerships and uses detailed transaction data (from 2017 through 2022) to examine the performance of so-called decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) on Ethereum. As a result, I find that DAOs with greater participation rates in voting are associated with superior performance. Small members are a prevalent and important class of investors, while the degree of decentralization in DAOs (ownership concentration) plays only a minor role in firm valuation. Overall, DAOs are an effective organizational structure, when members take an active interest in the venture.

Tahiya Lisa, Chaiyachet Saivichit

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Johannes Rude Jensen, Omri Ross

In the span of just six years, the once-nascent concept of the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) has grown into a rich tapestry of fluid organizations and token-powered communities.1 Today, DAO governance is considered to be a new universal primitive for value generation and capture across digital markets and industries. The thinking is that, in all instances in which value is generated by networks of prosumers and consumers, a DAO model has the potential to reallocate value capture to the network.

Anđela Andrić, Tamara Vlastelica, Velimir Štavljanin

The new generation of the web is characterized by decentralization, transparency, greater user autonomy, and privacy on one hand, while providing marketing professionals with increased opportunities and space for creativity, with a focus on user experience, and the establishment of relationships and communities before, during, and after product sales. This paper explores the opportunities offered by the new web generation in the field of marketing, identifies new tools that have been developed based on Web3 technologies, and analyzes their use for marketing purposes. The goal of the research presented in this paper is to enhance the theoretical framework of marketing strategies and techniques by analyzing the existing practical applications of Web3 technologies in this field and examining the awareness of potential users regarding key concepts, as well as assessing their prior exposure and the effects of Web3 marketing. Based on the literature review, an analysis of successful case studies, and the conducted research, conclusions were made on the current market penetration of Web3 and guidelines have been defined for planning marketing activities carried out within the Web3 environment.

Gordon M. Hickey

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Joseph Lee, Zoe Ejiofor

The Web3 Governance: Law and Policy Conference, convened by Dr Joseph Lee and Professor Jyh-An Lee was truly an international affair. There were academics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), University of Manchester, China University of Political Science and Law, Monash University (Australia), University of Padova (Italy), Newcastle University and Capital Normal University (China). Each of the academics gave an insightful view on the burning questions within this field of law.

Thainá Baronovsky

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Ken Huang

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John O. Oladipo

The Internet, in its embryonic form, emerged as a government research project designed to facilitate communication between researchers and scientists. Ever since then, the Internet has progressed tremendously from what we understand as an Internet where the functionality is to simply ‘read’, to the Internet where people can read, write, interact with other users, etc. The concept of life without the Internet is now inconceivable. At its current juncture, the Internet has permeated every facet of human existence, significantly impacting the world around us. Now, web 3.0 is the next step in the evolution of the Internet, emphasizing a decentralized Internet, ownership and advanced technologies. It is a paradigm shift for the internet that is defined by a collection of decentralized protocols and networks run by network participants worldwide. The decentralized nature of Web 3.0 will enable the creation of decentralized apps for finance, arts and collectables, gaming, and technology. Web 3.0 will provide users with greater data ownership, control, and privacy. It will be more secure, and scalable, and offer better privacy for users. It is also believed that Web 3.0 will create an ecosystem for users, by users, and of users. However, there are legal issues such as data autonomy, privacy, and protection, among others that need to be addressed. This article aims to demystify the emerging paradigm known as Web3—a new era of the Internet—and shed light on its relevance and the potential legal challenges it presents. Web3 is poised to reshape our digital landscape, and understanding its implications is vital as we navigate the ever-evolving intersection of technology and the law.

Frances Liddell

The following paper reflects on how web3 contributes to audience engagement practices through the lens of 'access', 'interaction', 'collaboration', 'participation'.

Huawei Huang, Qinglin Yang

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Carlo Parisi, Dmitriy Budorin

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Garv Sultania, Prathik Karthikeyan

A primer to the Web3 system designed to serve as a introduction to Web3 concepts. It also highlights the legal issues related to Web3 and it's related fields covering cryptocurrencies, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO's), Non-Fungible Tokens, Decentralized Finance (DeFi).