Blockchain Foundations For Secure Intelligent Ecosystems

About this book

In recent times, the importance of blockchain technology as a technological platform for building secure, transparent, decentralized, and intelligent digital ecosystems has been
established. Blockchain, which was first developed as the basis for cryptocurrency systems, has gradually found its applications in many areas, ranging from finance and healthcare to logistics, smart cities, education, governance, and IoT. It is through the use of features like decentralization, immutability, cryptographically secure methods, consensus algorithms, and smart contracts that new mechanisms for building trust and secure information transfer have been possible. This book titled “Blockchain Foundations for Secure Intelligent Ecosystems” is purposely aimed at developing an understanding of the underlying fundamentals of the technology. Concepts, architectures, mechanisms, and applications associated with blockchain technology are carefully outlined in this book. Attention is paid to how blockchain can be integrated with other modern innovations such as AI, IoT, edge computing, and distributed intelligence. Also, the way through which blockchain technology contributes to improving data integrity, privacy, traceability, trust, and secure information exchange in intelligent ecosystems is explained. Furthermore, some of the most important challenges that include scalability, interoperability, energy efficiency, privacy, security, and regulation issues are critically analyzed. Emerging blockchain solutions are also covered in this book.