Abstract
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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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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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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