Ethereum: What Lies Ahead
Abstract
In the past decade, many blockchain and DLT frameworks have flooded the market, but Ethereum is still the favorite of most blockchain lovers. As per a recent report, “Ethereum currently has the most active developer community in the space and has 30 times more developers than the second most active community.” The Ethereum blockchain does have some issues, yet it’s the market leader in its space, and no other framework is anywhere even close to this framework.
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Consensus-based oracles combine different oracles to determine the outcome of an event, and prediction markets like Augur and Gnosis use a rating system for oracles to confirm future outcomes and avoid market manipulation.
“Consensus-based oracles combine different oracles to determine the outcome of an event.For instance, prediction markets like Augur [52] and Gnosis [53] make use of a rating system for oracles to confirm future outcomes and to avoid market manipulation.”
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“Initially, each blockchain node is required to process every transaction sent through the network [343], but the latest developments allow for decreasing dramatically such a transaction load.”
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- Authors
- Mohanty, D.
- Corresponding author
- Mohanty, Debajani
- Venue
- Ethereum for Architects and Developers
- Publisher
- Apress
- Published
- 2018
- Pages
- 245-258
- OpenAlex
- W2899157002
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 2.69
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Apress eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Digital Transformation in Law
- Keywords
- Ethereum, blockchain, distributed ledger technology, developer communities, blockchain adoption
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