journal article·2022-05-25Open access

A Blockchain-Based Digital Asset Platform with Multi-Party Certification

Feng Liu, Zhefu Feng, Jiayin Qi

Applied Sciences· Volume 12· Issue 11

Abstract

Assets such as warehouse receipts are important for enterprises, which can be used to pledge in supply chain finance (SCF). However, traditional pledges are performed manually, which inevitably encounters inefficiency and security problems such as multiple pledges. To improve asset security, we propose a blockchain-based digital asset platform (BDAP) with multi-party certification. BDAP not only has a security protocol based on the threshold ECDSA algorithm to make related participants confirm the authenticity of assets but also embeds a Verifiable Byzantine Fault Tolerant (VBFT) mechanism, randomly selecting the consensus nodes and improving the safety of the nodes. Moreover, data stored on the blockchain makes traceability possible. Through a set of experiments, we have verified the functionality and performance of BDAP. When the pressure test reaches 100 concurrent user volume, BDAP’s average response time is 1.441 s, showing a high ability to process transactions. However, now just a few open-minded banks are willing to access BDAP, it might take a long time to change the traditional perception of the participants in supply chain finance.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Blockchain Technology Applications and Security · Cloud Data Security Solutions · FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance

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Affiliations

Institute of AI for Education, School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Change Management, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai 201620, China

School of Statistics and Information, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai 201620, China

Funding

Digital Transformation in China and Germany: Strategies, Structures and Solutions for Ageing Societies

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