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RS-chain: a decentralized reputation-sharing framework for group-buying industry via hybrid blockchain

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Group-buying is an intriguing e-commerce model that aims to recruit more participants to generate sufficient orders to establish a low-price foundation. It appears to be a good model for both sellers and buyers; however, most online group-buying websites have failed. Many academics believe that reputation-sharing across multiple platforms is the way to solve the industry’s dilemma. RS-Chain is a blockchain-based decentralized reputation-sharing framework, has been proposed in this paper. It is a hybrid blockchain comprising multiple public chains that store transaction ledgers and a consortium chain that stores reputation ledgers. It employs a trusted execution environment as a data verification component. We introduce the framework and describe the reputation operations. For the public chain, we propose proof of reputation (PoR), a new consensus protocol. The comparison experiment demonstrates that the PoR protocol outperforms the proof of work protocol in terms of fairness, orphan blocks, throughput, and latency. RS-Chain is the first reputation-sharing framework based on blockchain technology in the group-buying industry. It could be applied to similar reputation-sensitive industries.

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This work was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61872451, 61872452, and 61902448), the Science and Technology Development Fund of Macau SAR (Grant Nos. 0098/2018/A3, 0037/2020/A1, and 0062/2020/A2), the Guangdong Provincial Special Projects Funds for Key Fields of Colleges and Universities (new-generation information technology) (Grant No. 2021ZDZX1075).

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Chen, Y., Feng, L., Liang, H. et al. RS-chain: a decentralized reputation-sharing framework for group-buying industry via hybrid blockchain. Cluster Comput 25, 4617–4632 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-022-03696-y

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