Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are disrupting the digital asset management services as they provide improved transparency, effectiveness and security in the financial networks. This research uses a critical lens to explore the following blockchain basic building blocks: tokenization, decentralized exchange, cross-chain solutions, and privacy-preserving techniques such as ZKPs. The research adopts a secondary mixed-methods approach to generate insights into empirical evidence from the leading platforms and institutional case studies as a means to evaluate how blockchain can decentralize asset ownership and decrease reliance on intermediaries. These findings demonstrate how blockchain can redefine finance’s inherent limitations and how current issues, including scalability, regulation, and energy consumption, can be solved. The paper also aims to establish the theoretical foundation for the systemic impact of blockchain through Network Effect Theory and Modularity Theory. It establishes the basis for further research on the application of blockchain in scaling up, reducing the environmental impact, and designing regulatory frameworks that shape the development of digital economies around the world.
Source: Economic Sciences.
DOI: 10.69889/ct3rxq10
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414519145
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