Special Issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and experience “ FPDAPP , Future Perspectives on Decentralized Applications”
Claudio Schifanella, Andrea Bracciali · Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience · 2020
First paragraph: Blockchain technologies make agreement among untrusted parties possible, without the need for certification authorities. Proposed frameworks have been put forward in sector as diverse as finance, health care, notary, intellectual property management, identity, provenance, international cooperation, social good, and security to cite but a few. Smart contracts, that is, self‐enforcing agreements in terms of executable software running on blockchains, have been developed in several contexts. Such an under‐definition computational model introduces innovative aspects, such as the economics and trust of the decentralized computation relying on the shared contribution of peers and their decentralized consensus.