Blockchain Application Guide: Methodology and Practice

✍ Scribed by Xiaodan Tang (editor), Xiaotie Deng (editor), Rongfang Bie (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Edition: 1st ed. 2022
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on progress, concerns and approaches of blockchain application. It summarizes basic concepts, principles and standardization of blockchain technology, as well as the status of blockchain application and industry. It provides an ecology model and an evaluation method for blockchain applications and analyses the governance of blockchain applications. It presents application values and practices in financial services, logistics, government service, culture and education, and people’s livelihood and includes analysis of scenarios and use cases.

This book is a summary of the experience of more than 20 experts from enterprises and institutions active in the blockchain industry. It provides a panorama of blockchain applications for users, technology and service providers, application developers and operators and supervisors.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Part I Technical Foundation
1 Basic Technology
1.1 Concept and Development of Blockchain
1.2 Origin of Blockchain Technology
1.3 Stages of Blockchain Development
1.4 Fundamentals of Blockchain Technology
1.4.1 Technical Design and Advantages
1.4.2 Core of Key Technology
1.4.3 Security and Privacy Protection in Blockchain
1.5 Classification of Blockchain
1.6 Blockchain System Architecture
References
2 Convergence of Blockchain and Next Generation Information Technology
2.1 Overview
2.2 Blockchain and Cloud Computing
2.3 Blockchain and IoT
2.4 Blockchain and 5G
2.5 Blockchain and Big Data
2.6 Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence
References
Part II Application Ecology
3 Blockchain Application Status and Ecology
3.1 Global Blockchain Application Development
3.1.1 National Policies and Regulations
3.1.2 Industry Application Practice
3.2 Development of Blockchain Applications in China
3.2.1 Policy Support
3.2.2 Industry Application Practices
3.3 Blockchain Application Ecology
3.4 Blockchain Infrastructure Development Status and Ecology
3.4.1 Overview
3.4.2 Blockchain Infrastructure Projects
3.4.3 Blockchain Infrastructure Ecology
3.5 Blockchain Technology Ecology
3.5.1 Overview of the Technology Ecosystem
3.5.2 Open Source Community
References
Part III Application Methods and Practices
4 Blockchain Application Implementation Roadmap
4.1 A Panoramic Overview of Blockchain Applications
4.2 Blockchain Core Application Value
4.3 Blockchain Application Concerns
4.4 Blockchain Application Implementation Path
4.5 Blockchain Application Scenario Selection Method
References
5 Blockchain and Financial Service
5.1 Value
5.1.1 Upgrade Financial Model
5.1.2 Innovating Financial Formats
5.2 Application Situation
5.2.1 China Application Trend
5.2.2 Application Trends in Other Countries
5.3 Application Scenarios and Practices
5.3.1 Digital Currency
5.3.2 Trading Market
5.3.3 Supply Chain Finance
References
6 Blockchain and Logistics
6.1 Overview of Application Areas
6.2 Blockchain-Based Solution Ideas
6.3 Application Development Trends
6.4 Application Scenarios and Application Practices
6.4.1 Logistics Documents
6.4.2 Express Reconciliation
6.4.3 Agriculture-Logistics Traceability
6.4.4 Logistics Credit Rating
References
7 Blockchain and Government Services
7.1 Application Area Overview
7.2 Application Development
7.3 Application Scenarios and Practices
7.3.1 Government Data Sharing
7.3.2 Electronic Certificate
References
8 Blockchain and Culture Education
8.1 Overview
8.1.1 Digital Copyright Protection
8.1.2 Dynamic Quality Certification of Curriculum Resources
8.1.3 Educational Evaluation and Certification Issues
8.1.4 Individualized Learning Service and Support
8.1.5 Multi-subject Participation in Educational Management and Supervision
8.2 Solutions Based on Blockchain
8.2.1 Blockchain Solution of Copyright Deposit, Transaction, and Value Evaluation
8.2.2 Educational Certification, Learning Incentive, and Credit Exchange Model
8.2.3 Subject and Object Evaluation Model of Online Education Learning
8.3 Application Scenarios and Practices
8.3.1 Educational Certification and Certificate Management
8.3.2 Multiple Evaluations of Online Learning
8.3.3 Copyright Deposits and Transactions
8.3.4 Knowledge Securitization
References
9 Blockchain and People’s Livelihood
9.1 Overview of Application Fields
9.1.1 Value of Application
9.1.2 Issues and Challenges of Application Implementation
9.2 Application Scenarios and Practices
9.2.1 Healthcare Data Sharing
9.2.2 Healthcare Data Sharing Traceability of Drugs
9.2.3 Donation Management
9.2.4 Crowd-Sourcing Compensation
9.2.5 Targeted Poverty Alleviation
9.2.6 Land Requisition and Demolishing Management
References
Part IV Governance Norms
10 Governance of Blockchain Application
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The Off-Chain and On-Chain Design of Blockchain Application Governance
10.2.1 Blockchain Governance Scheme Different from that of Electronic Currency
10.2.2 On-Line Execution and Off-Line Improvement of Blockchain Governance
10.3 Economic Incentive Governance and IT Technology Governance for Permissioned Blockchain
10.3.1 IT Technology Governance of Blockchain Application System
10.3.2 Governance of Permissioned Blockchain Economy System
10.4 Cross-Chain Design for Blockchain Eco-environmental Governance
10.4.1 Cross-Chain Requirements for the Wide Application of Blockchain
10.4.2 Cross-Chain Technology
10.4.3 Oracle: A Kind of Blockchain Cross-Chain Technology
10.5 Selection, Evolution and Prospect of Blockchain Governance Ecology
References
11 Blockchain Application Evaluation
11.1 Overview
11.2 A Hierarchy Evaluation Model for Blockchain Applications
11.3 Evaluation Factors
11.3.1 Technical Evaluation Factors
11.3.2 Business Evaluation Factors
11.3.3 Social Evaluation Factors
11.4 Application Evaluation Methods
References
12 Roadmap of Blockchain Standardization
12.1 Analysis of Blockchain Standardization Demand and Value
12.1.1 Analysis of Blockchain Standardization Demand
12.1.2 Value of Blockchain Standardization
12.2 Development History of Blockchain Standardization
12.2.1 Development History of Blockchain Standard System
12.2.2 Standardization Institutions and Development Path in China
12.3 Development of Blockchain Standardization
12.3.1 Development of Blockchain International Standardization
12.3.2 Blockchain Standards in China
12.4 Key Directions of Blockchain Standardization
12.4.1 Foundation
12.4.2 Smart Contracts
12.4.3 Use Case Development
12.4.4 Data and Asset Management
12.4.5 Industrial Blockchain
12.4.6 Cross-Chain Interoperability
12.4.7 Governance
12.5 Implementation Plan of Blockchain Standardization
References
Part V Outlook
13 Key Issues of Blockchain
13.1 Is It a Disruptive Technology?
13.2 Blockchain and the Internet of Value [5]
13.3 Blockchain and Digital Economy [6]
13.4 Blockchain and the Real Economy
13.5 Blockchain and Social Governance
References
14 Trends of Blockchain
14.1 Blockchain Industrialization
14.2 Technology Moves Towards Systematization
14.3 Applications Begin to Scale
14.4 Further Development of Industrial Ecology
References