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Position Paper on Blockchain Technology: Smart Contract and Applications

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Blockchain technology enables a transaction to be handled in a decentralized fashion. In this position paper, we aim to introduce the background of blockchain technology, discuss one of its important component — smart contract, and present its recent applications in many fields such as cryptocurrency, financial services, risk management, and Internet of Things.

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Notes

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    https://coinmarketcap.com.

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    https://www.ethereum.org.

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    There are other variants of linkability. For example, escrowed linkability [17] only allows a designated party to link.

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    counterparty.io, stellar.org, lisk.io, monax.io.

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Sherman S.M. Chow is supported by the General Research Fund (CUHK 14210217) of the Research Grants Council, University Grant Committee of Hong Kong.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Weizhi Meng

  2. State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks (ISN), Xidian University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China

    Jianfeng Wang

  3. School of Computer Science, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China

    Xianmin Wang & Jin Li

  4. Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    Joseph Liu

  5. Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong SAR

    Zuoxia Yu

  6. Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China

    Zuoxia Yu

  7. Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR

    Yongjun Zhao & Sherman S. M. Chow

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Meng, W. et al. (2018). Position Paper on Blockchain Technology: Smart Contract and Applications. In: Au, M., et al. Network and System Security. NSS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11058. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02744-5_35

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