Smart contracts are decentrally anchored scripts on blockchains or similar infrastructures
that allow the transparent execution of predefined processes. Using smart contracts …

Bitcoin's success as a global cryptocurrency has paved the way for the emergence of
blockchain, a revolutionary category of distributed systems. However, the growing popularity …

The production and sales of electric vehicles in China are continuously increasing, and a
massive wave of scrap batteries is about to emerge. However, there are many challenges in …

Blockchain technology originated alongside Bitcoin as a novel method of conducting
financial transactions. It has garnered significant attention from both industry and academia …

With the development of a new generation of information technology, smart manufacturing
has put forward higher requirements for supply chain. It is necessary to ensure the …

Purpose Over the next decade, humanity is going to face big environmental problems, and
considering these serious issues, businesses are adopting environmentally responsible …

Blockchain (BC) technology is gaining momentum in a variety of application domains,
beyond finance. We present a text mining literature analysis of a body of published articles …

Financial Technology (FinTech) has expanded beyond simple mobile banking to online
money transfers, crowdfunding, and managing individual investments. This reinforces the …

The purpose of a reputation system is to hold the users of a distributed application
accountable for their behavior. The reputation of a user is computed as an aggregate of the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate, from a thorough review of the literature,
the role of metaverse-based quality 4.0 (MV-based Q4. 0) in achieving manufacturing …