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Decentralized Identity & Reputation
Self-sovereign identity, verifiable credentials and reputation that resists manipulation.
Identity on open networks must be portable, private and hard to forge. We study decentralized identifiers, verifiable academic credentials and soulbound tokens.
On the reputation side, we model how trust evolves from evidence over time and how reputation can safely weight consensus or peer review.
Related papers
zk-HTLCA formally verified defense against linkability attacks in trust-minimized cross-chain networks
Computer Networks
CrossTrust-IoTAn Adaptive Reinforcement Learning Framework for Cross-Chain Trust in Resource-Constrained IoT Networks
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
ChronosRepEntropy-regularized evidence fusion and stochastic differential trust dynamics for decentralized identity intelligence
Information Sciences
EdgeTrust-ShardHierarchical blockchain architecture for federated learning in cross-chain IoT ecosystems
Journal of Systems Architecture
DynaGuardA Dynamic Trust-Weighted Mechanism for BFT Attack Resilience in Cross-Shard Blockchain Networks
Communications in Computer and Information Science (Computational Intelligence in Engineering Science)
SCOR-AHIBEA Scalable Constant-Time Revocation Scheme for Privacy-Preserving Verifiable Credentials
Communications in Computer and Information Science (Computational Intelligence in Engineering Science)
Verifiable AI ReviewersDecentralized Skill Matching and Soulbound Reputation for Multi-Agent Peer Review
Intl. Conf. on Multimedia Analysis and Pattern Recognition (MAPR 2026)
DAVE-CCA decentralized, access-controlled, verifiable ecosystem for cross-chain academic credential management
Journal of Information Security and Applications
LotusA Hybrid Cross-Chain Framework for Privacy-Preserving Digital Identity
24th Intl. Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT, IEEE)
Proof-of-MeritA Reputation-Weighted VRF-PoA Consensus and Governance for Educational Blockchains
RIVF Intl. Conf. on Computing and Communication Technologies (IEEE)
CrossCertA Privacy-Preserving Cross-Chain System for Educational Credential Verification Using Zero-Knowledge Proof
LNICST (Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems)