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A Big List Of Blockchain, Not Bitcoin, Resources

Posted on June 2, 2025June 2, 2025 by Brian Colwell

The resources below are organized in chronological order. Enjoy!

2015 – On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains (Kyle Croman, Christian Decker, Ittay Eyal, Adem Efe Gencer, Ari Juels, Ahmed Kosba, Andrew Miller, Prateek Saxena, Elaine Shi0, Emin G¨un Sirer, Dawn Song, Roger Wattenhofer) – https://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/On%20scaling%20decentralized%20blockchains%20-%20A%20position%20paper.pdf

2016 – Disintermediation of Inter-Blockchain Transactions (S. Matthew English, Fabrizio Orlandi, S¨oren Auer) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.02598.pdf

2016 – Towards a blockchain enabled social contract for sustainability – Creating a fair and just operating system for humanity (Niels R.Faber, Henk Hadders) – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303923175_Towards_a_blockchain_enabled_social_contract_for_sustainability_-_Creating_a_fair_and_just_operating_system_for_humanity

2016 – Stampery Blockchain Timestamping Architecture (BTA) (Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo) – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308033741_Stampery_Blockchain_Timestamping_Architecture_BTA

2016 – Blockchain application and outlook in the banking industry (Ye Guo, Chen Liang) – https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40854-016-0034-9

2016 – A Case Study for Blockchain in Healthcare: “MedRec” prototype for electronic health records and medical research data (Ariel Ekblaw, Asaph Azaria, John D. Halamka, MD, Andrew Lippman) – https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/5-56-onc_blockchainchallenge_mitwhitepaper.pdf

2016 – Blockchain-based sharing services: What blockchain technology can contribute to smart cities (Jianjun Sun, Jiaqi Yan, Kem Z. K. Zhang) – https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40854-016-0040-y

2016 – Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains (Adam Back, Matt Corallo, Luke Dashjr, Mark Friedenbach, Gregory Maxwell, Andrew Miller, Andrew Poelstra, Jorge Timón, Pieter Wuille) – https://blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf

2016 – Making Smart Contracts Smarter (Loi Luu, Duc-Hiep, Hrishi Olickel, Prateek Saxena) – https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/633.pdf

2016 – Blockchain-enabled open science framework: A new approach to solving the reproducibility crisis (Vikram Dhillon) – https://www.oreilly.com/content/blockchain-enabled-open-science-framework/

2016 – The blockchain as a narrative technology: Investigating the social ontology and normative configurations of cryptocurrencies (Wessel Reijers, Mark Coeckelbergh) – https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13347-016-0239-x.pdf

2016 – Blockchain-Free Cryptocurrencies: A Framework for Truly Decentralised Fast Transactions (Xavier Boyen, Christopher Carr, Thomas Haines) – https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/871.pdf

2016 – How blockchain technology can enhance EHR Operability (Burniske, Vaughn, Shelton, Cahana) – https://research.ark-invest.com/hubfs/1_Download_Files_ARK-Invest/White_Papers/ARKInvest_and_GEM_Blockchain_EHR.pdf

2016 – How can cryptocurrency and blockchain technology play a role in building social and solidarity finance? (Scott) – https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/148750/1/861287290.pdf

2016 – Backing Rich Credentials with a Blockchain PKI (Karen Lewison, Francisco Corella) – https://pomcor.com/techreports/BlockchainPKI.pdf

2016 – Beyond Bitcoin – Part II: Blockchain-based systems without mining (Pasquale Forte, Diego Romano, Giovanni Schmid) – https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/747.pdf

2016 – The Future of Democracy: Blockchain Voting (Ryan Osgood) – https://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/116/archive/fall2016/rosgood.pdf

2016 – Efficient Secure Computation Enabled by Blockchain Technology (Guy Zyskind) – https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/105933/964695278-MIT.pdf?sequence=1

2016 – The Blockchain Anomaly (Christopher Natoli, Vincent Gramoli) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.05438.pdf

2016 – Blockchain Use Cases: From Beyonce to Barack (Meet Patel) – https://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/116/archive/fall2016/mpatel.pdf

2016 – The blockchain: a new framework for robotic swarm systems (Eduardo Castelló Ferrer) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.00695v2.pdf

2016 – Blockchain Platform for Industrial Internet of Things (Arshdeep Bahga, Vijay K. Madisetti) – https://file.scirp.org/pdf/JSEA_2016102814012798.pdf

2016 – Blockchain for securing sustainable transport contracts and supply chain transparency: An explorative study of blockchain technology in logistics (Amina Badzar) – https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=8880383&fileOId=8880390

2016 – Where Is Current Research on Blockchain Technology?—A Systematic Review (Jesse Yli-Huumo, Deokyoon Ko, Sujin Choi, Sooyong Park, Kari Smolander) – https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0163477&type=printable

2016 – Blockchain: Disruptive technology and its effect within the music industry (Alex Heywood) – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305033376_Blockchain_Disruptive_technology_and_its_effect_within_the_music_industry

2016 – BlockChain Technology: Beyond Bitcoin (Michael Crosby, Nachiappan, Pradan Pattanayak, Sanjeev Verma, Vignesh Kalyanaraman) – https://scet.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/AIR-2016-Blockchain.pdf

2016 – Blockchain technology- applications in improving financial inclusion in developing economies. Case study for small scale agriculture in Africa (Malvern Chinaka) – https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/104542/958426765-MIT.pdf

2016 – A Blockchain-Based Approach to Health Information Exchange Networks (Kevin Peterson, Rammohan Deeduvanu, Pradip Kanjamala, Kelly Boles) – https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/12-55-blockchain-based-approach-final.pdf

2016 – Blockchain for the Internet of Things: a Systematic Literature Review (Marco Conoscenti, Antonio Vetro, Juan Carlos De Martin) – https://nexa.polito.it/nexacenterfiles/Blockchain%20for%20the%20Internet%20of%20Things%3A%20a%20Systematic%20Literature%20Review.pdf

2016 – Industrial Blockchain Platforms: An Exercise in Use Case Development in the Energy Industry (Juri Mattila, Timo Seppälä, Catarina Naucler, Riitta Stahl, Marianne Tikkanen, Alexandra Bådenlid, Jane Seppälä) – https://www.etla.fi/wp-content/uploads/ETLA-Working-Papers-43.pdf

2016 – Overview of business innovations and research opportunities in blockchain and introduction to the special issue (J. Leon Zhao, Shaokun Fan, Jiaqi Yan) – https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40854-016-0049-2

2016 – Blockchain: Digitally Rebuilding the Real Estate Industry (Avi Spielman) – https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/106753/969450770-MIT.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

2016 – Towards Self-Sovereign Identity using Blockchain Technology (Djuri Baars) – https://essay.utwente.nl/71274/1/Baars_MA_BMS.pdf

2017 – An Overview of Blockchain Technology: Architecture, Consensus, and Future Trends (Zibin Zheng, Shaoan Xie, Hongning Dai, Xiangping Chen, Huaimin Wang) – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318131748_An_Overview_of_Blockchain_Technology_Architecture_Consensus_and_Future_Trends

2017 – Understanding Blockchain Fundamentals, Part 1: Byzantine Fault Tolerance (Georgios Konstantopoulos) – https://medium.com/loom-network/understanding-blockchain-fundamentals-part-1-byzantine-fault-tolerance-245f46fe8419

2017 – Understanding Blockchain Fundamentals, Part 2: Proof of Work & Proof of Stake (Georgios Konstantopoulos) – https://medium.com/loom-network/understanding-blockchain-fundamentals-part-2-proof-of-work-proof-of-stake-b6ae907c7edb

2017 – Analysis Of Blockchain Protocol In Asynchronous Networks (Rafael Pass, Lior Seeman, Abhi Shelat) – https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-56614-6_22

2017 – Blockchain: The Evolutionary Next Step for ICT E-Agriculture (Yu-Pin Lin, Joy R. Petway, Johnathen Anthony, Hussnain Mukhtar, Shih-Wei Liao, Cheng-Fu Chou, Yi-Fong Ho) – https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3298/4/3/50

2017 – Blockchain a new technology that will transform the real estate market (Corluka, Lindh) – https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1124675/FULLTEXT01.pdf

2017 – Impact Of Blockchain Technology In Enhancing Customer Loyalty Programs In Airline Business (Udegbe, Scholastica Ebarefimia) – https://www.ijiras.com/2017/Vol_4-Issue_6/paper_44.pdf

2017 – Blockchain Inefficiency in the Bitcoin Peers Network (Giuseppe Pappalardo, T. Di Matteo, Guido Caldarelli, Tomaso Aste) – https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01414.pdf

2017 – ERCIM NEWS Number 110 July 2017 Special theme Blockchain Engineering – https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/images/stories/EN110/EN110-web.pdf#page=15

2017 – PoW and Blockchains (Ittay Eyal) – https://www.zurich.ibm.com/dccl/papers/eyal_dccl_slides.pdf

2017 – The Blockchain Economy: A beginner’s guide to institutional cryptoeconomics (Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson, Jason Potts ) – https://medium.com/cryptoeconomics-australia/the-blockchain-economy-a-beginners-guide-to-institutional-cryptoeconomics-64bf2f2beec4

2018 – What blockchain can and can’t do: Applications to marketing and privacy (Alex Marthews, Catherine Tucker) – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167811622000672?via%3Dihub

2018 – What has the blockchain ever done for us? (Balaji) – https://balajis.com/p/and-what-has-the-blockchain-ever-done-for-us

2018 – Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Central Banks (David Andolfatto) – https://bitcoinwallets.com/Blockchain-cryptocurrencies-and-central-banks.pdf

2019 – Cryptoasset Investment Thesis (Blockchain) – https://bitcoinwallets.com/Blockchain-Investment-Thesis.pdf

2019 – On the Origins and Variations of Blockchain Technologies (Alan T. Sherman, Farid Javani, Haibin Zhang, Enis Golaszewski) – https://chaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Origins-of-Blockchain-08674176.pdf

2020 – A comprehensive overview of enterprise blockchain (Mustafa Bedawala, Visa) – https://usa.visa.com/solutions/crypto/enterprise-blockchain.html

Thanks for reading!

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