Blockchains and Smart Contracts for the Internet of Things

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Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection Based on Hybrid Attention Mechanism Model

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Bridging the trust gap in financial reporting: the impact of blockchain technology and smart contracts

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Auditing in the blockchain: a literature review

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AlkylVM: A Virtual Machine for Smart Contract Blockchain Connected Internet of Things

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Towards Blockchain-Based Identity and Access Management for Internet of Things in Enterprises

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Using Blockchains to Strengthen the Security of Internet of Things

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Blockchain Based Billing System for Electric Vehicle and Charging Station

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The Future of IoT

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Visual and User-Defined Smart Contract Designing System Based on Automatic Coding

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A survey on Blockchain based access control for Internet of Things

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A security framework for Ethereum smart contracts

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Technology convergence assessment: Case of blockchain within the IR 4.0 platform

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Local Energy Trading in Future Distribution Systems

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Experimental Performance Analysis of a Scalable Distributed Hyperledger Fabric for a Large-Scale IoT Testbed

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Impact of blockchain and distributed ledger technology for the management, protection, enforcement and monetization of intellectual property: a systematic literature review

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On design issues and architectural styles for blockchain-driven IoT services

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Blockchain: The Next Breakthrough in the Rapid Progress of AI

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Spectrum Gap Analysis With Practical Solutions for Future Mobile Data Traffic Growth in Malaysia

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An Over-the-Blockchain Firmware Update Framework for IoT Devices

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Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin: Blockchain Technology Challenges and Real-World Applications

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A Systematic Literature Review of Authentication in Internet of Things for Heterogeneous Devices

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Beh-Raft-Chain: A Behavior-Based Fast Blockchain Protocol for Complex Networks

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Enhanced Lightning Network (off-chain)-based micropayment in IoT ecosystems

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A distributed identity ‐based authentication scheme for internet of things devices using permissioned blockchain system

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An Analysis of Smart Contracts Security Threats Alongside Existing Solutions

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Leveraging Blockchain Technology for Indian Healthcare system: An assessment using value-focused thinking approach

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Internet of Things for smart energy systems: A review on its applications, challenges and future trends

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Smart contract diffusion in the pharmaceutical blockchain: the battle of counterfeit drugs

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A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on the Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in Smart Cities

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On the Consensus Mechanisms of Blockchain/DLT for Internet of Things

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E-Voting on the Blockchain

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Blockchain-based Electronic Patient Records for Regulated Circular Healthcare Jurisdictions

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Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings: Blockchain’s Implications for Crowdfunding

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Communication Aspects of the Integration of Wireless IoT Devices with Distributed Ledger Technology

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A Lightweight Blockchain-Based Model for Data Quality Assessment in Crowdsensing

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Hy-Bridge: A Hybrid Blockchain for Privacy-Preserving and Trustful Energy Transactions in Internet-of-Things Platforms

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Securing MQTT by Blockchain-Based OTP Authentication

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Implementation and evaluation of smart contracts using a hybrid on‐ and off‐blockchain architecture

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Benefits and Use of Blockchain Technology to Human Resources Management: A Critical Review

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Powered by blockchain: forecasting blockchain use in the electricity market

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Hierarchical Multi-Blockchain Architecture for Scalable Internet of Things Environment

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The Role of the CFO of an Industrial Company: An Analysis of the Impact of Blockchain Technology

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Blockchain for Diamond Industry: Opportunities and Challenges

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Blockchain-based medical and water waste management conception

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Mechanism analysis and partition characteristics of a recent highway landslide in Southwest China based on a 3D multi-point deformation monitoring system

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Randomness invalidates criminal smart contracts

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Blockchain-Based Data Storage Mechanism for Industrial Internet of Things

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Security and privacy in smart city: a secure e-voting system based on blockchain

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Integrity and Privacy-Aware, Patient-Centric Health Record Access Control Framework Using a Blockchain

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Blockchain-Enabled Federated Learning-Based Resource Allocation and Trading for Network Slicing in 5G

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Energy, Scalability, Data, and Security in Massive IoT: Current Landscape and Future Directions

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CapChain: A Privacy Preserving Access Control Framework Based on Blockchain for Pervasive Environments

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SmaCoNat: Smart Contracts in Natural Language

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Blockchain-based Infrastructure Sharing in 5G Small Cell Networks

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An Approach to Data Privacy in Smart Home using Blockchain Technology

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Dependable IoT Using Blockchain-Based Technology

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Blockchain as E-Commerce Platform in Indonesia

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A critical review on blockchain assessment initiatives: A technology evolution viewpoint

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On the development of organized nodal local energy markets and a framework for the TSO-DSO coordination

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Privacy Preservation in Resource-Constrained IoT Devices Using Blockchain—A Survey

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IBE-BCIOT: an IBE based cross-chain communication mechanism of blockchain in IoT

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Survey of Consensus Algorithms for Proof of Stake in Blockchain

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Contextualizing the impact of blockchain technology on the performance of new firms: The role of corporate governance as an intermediate outcome

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Reinforcement learning approaches for efficient and secure blockchain-powered smart health systems

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A Blockchain-Based Architecture and Framework for Cybersecure Smart Cities

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The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Legal Frameworks: A Model for Adaptive Regulation

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Securing virtual machine orchestration with blockchains

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An application of blockchain and smart contracts for machine-to-machine communications in cyber-physical production systems

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Implementation of smart contracts for blockchain based IoT applications

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Recommending Differentiated Code to Support Smart Contract Update

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A Distributed Energy Trading Authentication Mechanism Based on a Consortium Blockchain

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BFR-MPC: A Blockchain-Based Fair and Robust Multi-Party Computation Scheme

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Blockchain-Based Distributed Energy Trading in Energy Internet: An SDN Approach

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BMIAE: blockchain‐based multi‐instance Iris authentication using additive ElGamal homomorphic encryption

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A Survey of Secure Internet of Things in Relation to Blockchain

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Blockchain Use in IoT for Privacy-Preserving Anti-Pandemic Home Quarantine

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LTSM: Lightweight and Trusted Sharing Mechanism of IoT Data in Smart City

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On the Latency Performance in Private Blockchain Networks

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Blockchain and deep learning based trust management for Internet of Vehicles

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Blockchain-based vehicular ad-hoc networks: A comprehensive survey

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Leveraging Blockchain for sustainability and supply chain resilience in e-commerce channels for additive manufacturing: A cognitive analytics management framework-based assessment

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Integration of blockchain with artificial intelligence technologies in the energy sector: a systematic review

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Survey of Blockchain-Based Applications for IoT

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Improving IoT Services in Smart-Home Using Blockchain Smart Contract

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Blockchain and the Industrial Internet of Things

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Edge Computing Integrated with Blockchain Technologies

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Enabling security for the Industrial Internet of Things using deep learning, blockchain, and coalitions

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