Blockchain and smart contracts : Technologies, research issues and applications
Julian Schütte, Gilbert Fridgen, Wolfgang Prinz, Thomas Rose, Nils Urbach, Thomas Hoeren, Nikolas Guggenberger, Christian Welzel, Steffen Holly, Axel T. Schulte, Philipp Sprenger, Christian Schwede, Birgit Weimert, Boris Otto, Mathias Dalheimer, Markus Wenzel, Michael Kreutzer, Michael Fritz, Ulrich Leiner, Alexander Nouak · ERef Bayreuth (University of Bayreuth) · 2018
This position paper analyzes blockchain technology from the scientific and application-oriented perspective of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. It examines relevant technical aspects and related research questions. It shows that technology still has fundamental research and development challenges in all areas. These include, for example, the modularization of individual blockchain concepts as well as their combination and integration for application-specific blockchain solutions.