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This paper examines how blockchain technology can mitigate corruption in the Brazilian public sector, with a focus on the Rede Brasil Blockchain (RBB), an initiative of the TCU and BNDES, and proposes the New Trustless Public Governance.
This work offers a comprehensive framework of the policymaker and system architect and researcher aiming to operationalize blockchain in a public-sector setting by nexus-linking technical design with institutional governance requirements.
Blockchain technology addresses current concerns in international trade, such as the lack of traceability, excessive bureaucracy, limited transparency, and corruption. This paper analyses the extent to which this decentralized technology can improve trade processes. The analysis uses an OLS model applied to a panel dataset to assess the impact of institutional and digital variables on trade volume. The results show that a coherent and efficient regulatory framework has a positive effect on global trade integration. Blockchain technology has a marginally positive impact, which suggests that it can increase transparency and improve trade processes when countries have a well-developed digital infrastructure. The results show that a convergent approach is needed in which government efforts and digital transformation can reduce corruption and streamline trade processes. The study contributes to the specialized literature and provides an empirical conceptual framework for integrating blockchain into economic development initiatives and strengthening institutional governance.
In Nigeria's oil and gas industry, the problems of inconsistent reporting, lack of inter-agency collaboration, and untrustworthy state institutions continue to persist. This paper analyses the effects of blockchain technology on strengthening the processes of reporting and auditing petroleum production, given the current institutional settings in Nigeria. This analysis does not consider blockchain technology to be the best, or the only option. Rather, the focus is on the extent to which the technology can help provide more reliable audit trails, improve real-time inter-agency communication, and build structures to support the verification and authentication of records. The analysis also explains the institutional and technological frameworks within which the proposed improvements can be realized. This research contributes to the field by managing expectations on the contribution of blockchain technology to governance improvements within the existing socio-institutional structures.
This article explores the potential uses of blockchain technology in contemporary private law, with a particular focus on the Brazilian legal system. The author lists the main characteristics of blockchain, as an incremental, immutable, and reliable chain of blocks, and its potential to reconfigure private relationships. The study examines the various ways blockchain applies to the legal sphere (smart contracts, corporate deliberations, DAOs, IoT, IIoT, asset tokenization, evidence production, and arbitration), especially under Brazilian civil law. The methodology consists of a qualitative and analytical approach, based on a critical literature review and a legal-dogmatic analysis of texts relevant to the topic, highlighting Bambara and Allen (2018) for the technical foundations of blockchain among other specialized references concerning its legal applications. The article demonstrates blockchain's transformative potential, offering a new paradigm of legal certainty and decentralized trust, capable of impacting everything from contract theory to supranational corporate structures.
This study aims to present a blockchain model as an instrument for zakat management. The study uses a qualitative method with a grounded theory approach. The model development is based on in-depth interviews with stakeholders to ensure the feasibility of blockchain in zakat management. Data analysis utilizes tools such as ATLAS.ti. The results of this study identified five main dimensions in blockchain modeling for zakat: trust mechanisms, transparency, accountability, cost and efficiency, and distribution speed. Test results revealed dimensions in the form of trust mechanisms, transparency, cost and efficiency, record keeping, and distribution speed. This study suggests that the utilization of blockchain in zakat management can not only technically automate processes but also promote Islamic principles in its operation based on fairness and accountability in record-keeping. This study recommends future validation of the proposed model in promoting the regulation of blockchain adoption in Islamic social finance.
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