Handbook on Blockchain

This handbook aims to serve as a one-stop, reliable source of reference, with curations of survey and expository contributions on the state-of-the-art in Blockchain technology. It covers a comprehensive range of topics, providing the technical and non-technical reader with fundamentals, applications, and deep details on a variety of topics. The readership is expected to span broadly from technologically-minded business professionals and entrepreneurs, to students, instructors, novices and seasoned researchers, in computer science, engineering, software engineering, finance, and data science. Though Blockchain technology is relatively young, its evolution as a field and a practice is booming in growth and its importance to society had never been more important than it is today. Blockchain solutions enable a decentralization of a digital society where people can contribute, collaborate, and transact without having to second-guess the trust and transparency factors with many geographical,financial, and political barriers removed. It is the distributed ledger technology behind the success of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many emerging applications.

Preface.- Part 1. Foundation.- 1. Blockchain in a Nutshell (Tran,Krishnamachari).- 2. Blockchain Peer-to-peer Network: Performance and Security (Thai, Doan, Liu, Liu, Li, Zhou, Dinh).- 3. Consensus Algorithms for Blockchain (Kim, Kwon).- 4. Blockchain Incentive Design and Analysis (Niu, Feng).- 5. Cross-Blockchain Transactions: Systems, Protocols, and Topological Theory (Zhao).- Part 2. Scalability.- 6. Scaling Blockchains and the Case for Ethereum (Asgaonkar).- 7. Building Protocols for Scalable Decentralized Applications (Mast).- 8. Information-Theoretic Approaches to Scalable Blockchain Systems and Distributed Trust (Raman, Varshney).- Part 3. Trust and Security .- 9. On Trust, Blockchain, and Reputation Systems (Rodrigues, Franco, Killer, Scheid, Stiller).- 10. Blockchain for Trust and Reputation Management in Cyber-physical Systems (Putra, Dedeoglu, Kanhere, Jurdak).- 11. Advances in Blockchain Security (Nguyen, Jeter, Thai).- 12. Formal Verification of Blockchain Byzantine Fault Tolerance (Tholoniat, Gramoli).- Part 4. Decentralized Finance.- 13. Constant Function Market Makers: Multi-asset Trades via Convex Optimization (Angeris, Agrawal, Evans, Chitra, Boyd).- 14. Stablecoins: Reducing the Volatility of Cryptocurrencies (Kahya, Krishnamachari, Yun).- 15. Central Bank Digital Currencies (Pocher, Veneris). - Part 5. Application and Policy.- 16. Ocean Protocol: Tools for the Web3 Data Economy (McConaghy).- 17. Blockchain in Supply Chain: Opportunities and Design Considerations (Ramachandran, Malik, Pal, Dorri, Dedeoglu, Kanhere, Jurdak) .- 18. Tokenization of Assets (Bala).- 19. The New Economy of Movement (Vo, Ballinger).- 20. Blockchain-based data management for Smart Transportation (Zichichi, Ferretii, D'Angelo).- 21. Crypto Regulation and the Case for Europe (Sandner, Ferreira, Dünser). - 22. Economic Perspectives on the Governance of Blockchains (Murtazashvili, Weiss).