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Khattat, Mostafa (author)Threshold signatures play a crucial role in the security of blockchain applications. An efficient threshold signature can be applied to enhance the security of wallets and transactions by enforcing multi-device-based authentication, as this requires adversaries to compromise more devices to recover the key. Additionally, threshold signatures can...master thesis 2024
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Oderwald Blázquez, Adrian (author)Blockchain consortia uphold value-addition through collaboration between organizations, by exploring, prototyping and innovating together. Blockchain technology presented itself as a new solution to the sharing of data proofs since 2008, with certain components such as smart contracts and privacy-enhancing components currently at different...master thesis 2024
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Roza, Julian (author)Carbon trading sets a price on greenhouse gases (GHG), enabling countries and companies to buy emission rights. The carbon market includes the compliant market, regulated by governments, and the voluntary carbon market (VCM), which lacks strict regulation and allows anyone to offset emissions. In the VCM, carbon credits are created through...master thesis 2024
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van der Maarel, Stefan (author)Traditional financial companies play a central role in ensuring financial stability and reliability. However, these companies face institutional problems due to inefficiencies, lack of transparency and limited innovation. For this reason, the use of distributed ledger technology, or blockchain, has been explored as an alternative and its...master thesis 2024
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Stokkink, Q.A. (author)The digital world is evolving toward representing - and serving the interconnection of - natural persons. Instead of depending on the intrastructure of Big Tech companies and governments, users can cooperate and use their hardware to form public infrastructure. Instead of existing by virtue of a reference in some institution's database, users...doctoral thesis 2024
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Kouwenhoven, Robin (author)Foremost among the challenges of the Bitcoin blockchain is the scalability bottleneck. To address this issue, the Lightning Network, a payment channel network, was created. Lightning is a payment channel network that is source-routed and uses onion routing, like Tor. However, unlike Tor, the routing path is determined by optimizing a cost...master thesis 2024
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Calamita, Kyria (author)The accelerated digitalization of daily interactions, significantly influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic, has rendered the digital realm a fundamental aspect of life across generations. This shift has led to a transformation in digital asset management, ownership, and trade. The introduction of blockchain technology, especially non-fungible...master thesis 2024
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YU, HAIHAN (author)Since its emergence in 2008, blockchain technology has significantly expanded its scope, impacting various industries beyond its initial cryptocurrency applications. Its potential to enhance established practices is increasingly recognized, yet its application in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry has been relatively...master thesis 2024
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Kromes, R.G. (author), Li, T. (author), Bouillion, Maxime (author), Güler, Talha Enes (author), van der Hulst, Victor (author), Erkin, Z. (author)Blockchain’s potential to revolutionize supply chain and logistics with transparency and equitable stakeholder engagement is significant. However, challenges like scalability, privacy, and interoperability persist. This study explores the scarcity of real-world blockchain implementations in supply chain and logistics since we have not witnessed...journal article 2024
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Rodrigues de Oliveira, Nicollas (author), de Rezende dos Santos, Yago (author), Rocha Mendes, Ana Carolina (author), Nunes Nasseh Barbosa, Guilherme (author), Tuler de Oliveira, M. (author), Valle, Rafael (author), Scherly Varela Medeiros, Dianne (author), Mattos, Diogo Menezes Ferrazani (author)The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the necessity for agile health services that enable reliable and secure information exchange, but achieving proper, private, and secure sharing of EMRs remains a challenge due to diverse data formats and fragmented records across multiple data silos, resulting in hindered coordination between healthcare...review 2024
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de Vos, M.A. (author), Ishmaev, G. (author), Pouwelse, J.A. (author)The popularity of blockchain technology has bootstrapped many “Web3” applications, e.g., Ethereum and IPFS, that apply distributed ledger technology to store transactions. The amount of transactions generated and stored in such Web3 applications is significant and, in its raw form, usually not searchable by users. Existing Web3 transaction...journal article 2024
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di Angelo, Monika (author), Durieux, T. (author), Ferreira, João F. (author), Salzer, Gernot (author)Blockchain programs (also known as smart contracts) manage valuable assets like cryptocurrencies and tokens, and implement protocols in domains like decentralized finance (DeFi) and supply-chain management. These types of applications require a high level of security that is hard to achieve due to the transparency of public blockchains....journal article 2024
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Li, T. (author), Xu, L. (author), Erkin, Z. (author), Lagendijk, R.L. (author)With the fast development of e-commerce, there is a higher demand for timely delivery. Logistic companies want to send receivers a more accurate arrival prediction to improve customer satisfaction and lower customer retention costs. One approach is to share (near) real-time location data with recipients, but this also introduces privacy and...conference paper 2024
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Li, Meng (author), Shen, Yanzhe (author), Ye, Guixin (author), He, Jialing (author), Zheng, Xin (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Zhu, Liehuang (author), Conti, M. (author)Digital forensics is crucial to fight crimes around the world. Decentralized Digital Forensics (DDF) promotes it to another level by channeling the power of blockchain into digital investigations. In this work, we focus on the privacy and security of DDF. Our motivations arise from (1) how to track an anonymous- and-malicious data user who...journal article 2024
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The book is organized into three distinct parts. The first part focuses on data-driven digital technologies and delves into how their capabilities can facilitate the transition to a circular built environment. Essential aspects such as building information modeling (BIM), digital twins, geographical information systems (GIS), scanning...book 2024
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Chang, Janet (author), Jaskula, Klaudia (author), Papadonikolaki, E. (author), Rovas, Dimitrios (author), Parlikad, Ajith Kumar (author)Purpose<br/>This research investigates the distinct characteristics of blockchain technology to safeguard against the deterioration of handover information quality in the post-construction phase. The significance of effective management of handover information is highlighted by global building failures, such as the Grenfell Tower fire in London,...journal article 2024
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Vian, Giacomo (author)The proliferation of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) is decentralizing the power system, with more and more capacity installed in the distribution grids. Concurrently, the energy sector is embracing the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, resulting in the emergence of the Internet of Energy. However, this transformation introduces new...master thesis 2023
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Klabér, Rahim (author)The introduction of Blockchain technology has led to the idea of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.<br/>(DAOs). DAOs enable decentralized and transparent collective wealth, allowing groups of individuals to pool their funds for collective management. DAOs rely on complex smart contracts to function. Despite Bitcoin being the most popular...master thesis 2023
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Schmid, Jonathan (author)The severity of climate change impacts various aspects of human life today, with projections of up to six degrees of global warming by 2100 if significant changes are not adopted. (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2021). Among others, the energy supply cannot be solely fossil-based but need to adopt alternative ways of generation,...master thesis 2023
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Moonen, Djoshua (author)Payment channels allow parties to utilize the blockchain to send transactions for a cheaper fee. Previous work has analyzed to which degree a party can profit by facilitating the transaction process. The aim is to increase the usability of the network and to be rewarded for providing this service. However, previous work focuses on maximizing the...master thesis 2023