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800+ academic papers on blockchain. All in one place.
Built with the University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI). Search, filter, and explore peer-reviewed research from top universities worldwide.
Access the latest blockchain research from top universities.
XRPL Commons has been working with the University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) to make academic blockchain research accessible to everyone.
Together, we've built an online tool that lets you navigate thousands of papers published by top universities worldwide, searchable by theme, by university, and by year.
Research database
Discover academic research on Blockchain and its impact across diverse sectors. The UBRI Research Corpus connects you with publications from top universities worldwide.
828 papers
- Commercializing Blockchain: Strategic Applications in the Real World
- The Economics of Cryptocurrencies
- Effectiveness of Markets and Policies
- Technological Advancement and Japanese Economy
- Liquidations: DeFi on a Knife-edge
- Assets on the blockchain: An empirical study of Tokenomics
- Information Theoretic Causality Detection between Financial and Sentiment Data
- AuditChain: A Trading Audit Platform Over Blockchain
- Algorithms in future insurance markets
- Entrepreneurial Finance and Moral Hazard: Evidence from Token Offerings
- Initial coin offerings, asymmetric information, and loyal CEOs
- CEO emotions and firm valuation in initial coin offerings: An artificial emotional intelligence approach
- The influence of blockchain-based food traceability on retailer choice: The mediating role of trust
- Cryptocurrency adoption in travel and tourism – an exploratory study of Asia Pacific travellers
- How value-sensitive design can empower sustainable consumption
- Dynamics of fintech terms in news and blogs and specialization of companies of the fintech industry
- The Wisdom of Crowds in FinTech: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings (OLD VERSION)
- The relationship between arbitrage in futures and spotmarkets and Bitcoin price movements: Evidence from theBitcoin markets
- Did the introduction of Bitcoin futures crash the Bitcoin market at the end of 2017?
- Triple-entry Accounting, Blockchain and Next of Kin: Towards a Standardization of Ledger Terminology
- The Efficiency of Single Truth: Triple-entry Accounting
- REA, Triple-Entry Accounting and Blockchain: Converging Paths to Shared Ledger Systems
- From Banks to DeFi: The Evolution of the Lending Market
- Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading and the Sharing Economy: Social, Markets and Regulatory Perspectives
- An Information Filtering approach to stress testing: an application to FTSE markets
- A blockchain framework for increased trust in green bonds issuance
- The Empirical Analysis of Bitcoin Market in the General Equilibrium Framework
- THE RISE OF INSTITUTIONAL ETHEREUM INVESTORS
- Market Orders
- Currency stability using blockchian technology
- Toward Understanding Cryptocurrency Derivatives: A Case Study of BitMEX
- Cryptocurrencies with Security Policies and Two-Factor Authentication
- DeFi and the Future of Finance
- Unfolding identity of financial institutions in bitcoin blockchain by weekly pattern of network flows
- Amazon Biobank: sustainable development built upon rainforest's biodiversity
- Torrente, a micropayment based Bittorrent extension to mitigate free riding
- Amazon Biobank - A community-based genetic database
- Domain Transparency: Improved Auditability for Certificate Transparency Services
- Private blockchain-envisioned drones-assisted authentication scheme in IoT enabled agricultural environment
- AI and Blockchain-Based Cloud Assisted Secure Vaccine Distribution and Tracking in IoMT-Enabled COVID-19 Environment
- Enabling the Internet of Value: How Blockchain Connects Global Businesses
- Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology Use Cases, application
- Understanding Crypto Today
- Characterization of XRP crypto-asset transactions using network analysis
- Revisiting Transactional Statistics of High-scalability Blockchains
- Can a Differential Attack Work for an Arbitrarily Large Number of Rounds?
- Proof-Carrying Data without Succinct Arguments
- Facilitating the Decentralised Exchange of Cryptocurrencies in an Order-Driven Market
- Replay Attacks and Defenses Against Cross-shard Consensus in Sharded Distributed Ledgers
- FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement
- Winkle: Foiling Long-Range Attacks in Proof-of-Stake Systems
- VaVite: Verifiable Information Exchange for Virtual Asset Service Providers
- Dynamic Consensus: Increasing Blockchain Adaptability to Enterprise Applications
- Generating Highly-structured Input Data by Combining Search-based Testing and Grammar-based Fuzzing
- Good Things Come In Threes: Improving Search-based Crash Reproduction With Helper Objectives
- DeepTC-Enhancer: Improving the Readability of Automatically Generated Tests
- Revisiting Test Smells in Automatically Generated Tests: Limitations, Pitfalls, and Opportunities
- An Application of Model Seeding to Search-Based Unit Test Generation for Gson
- Optimizing All-to-All Data Transmission in WANs
- TimeFabric: Trusted Time for Permissioned Blockchains
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IAE Paris Sorbonne Business SchoolAffiliated with University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, this globally recognized institution in management sciences collaborates with XRPL Commons to introduce blockchain technology through a thematic teaching unit, covering its economic, financial, ethical, and legal aspects.
Epitech - School of IT Expertise and InnovationA renowned IT school in Paris, Epitech and Commons co-hosted an intensive blockchain training program, offering foundational knowledge and practical experience in decentralized applications.
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University of California Berkeley
In partnership with the Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence, Haas Blockchain Club, and Blockchain at Berkeley, we host workshops for learning to build apps across payments, DeFi, NFTs, and more, with mentorship from RippleX and XRPL Commons. Winners present at Apex 2024.
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EpitaEPITA (École pour l’Informatique et les Techniques Avancées) is a renowned private engineering school in Paris specializing in computer science and software engineering. It is the only French institution that is a member of the Universal Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), underscoring its commitment to academic excellence and innovation. Since 2013, XRPL Commons has collaborated with EPITA on content creation and research, advancing blockchain technology and related fields.
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ESGI is a leading French IT engineering school offering nine specialized tracks, including Blockchain, and emphasizes work-study programs across 11 campuses. Since 2024, XRPL Commons and ESGI have partnered to develop blockchain content and engage students through dedicated activities.
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