Everything about Blockchain Global

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Blockchain GlobalA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Blockchain adoption and gray markets in a global supply chainInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The age of cryptocurrencyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: 2017 Global Blockchain Benchmarking StudyCited 143 times
5. Go sideways: Canaan CreativeA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Digital Currency GroupA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• 2017 Global Blockchain Benchmarking Study

  Garrick Hileman, Michel Rauchs · 2017 · SSRN Electronic Journal · 143 citations

• BLOCKCHAIN INFRASTRUCTURE AND GROWTH OF GLOBAL POWER CONSUMPTION

  Valeriia Denisova, Alexey Mikhaylov, Evgeny Lopatin · 2019 · International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy · 91 citations

• Born global on blockchain

  Tatiana Zalan · 2018 · Review of International Business and Strategy · 77 citations

• Blockchain applications for climate protection: A global empirical investigation

  Gregor Dorfleitner, Franziska Muck, Isabel Scheckenbach · 2021 · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · 52 citations

• A unified blockchain-based platform for global e-waste management

  Swagatika Sahoo, Arnab Mukherjee, Raju Halder · 2021 · International Journal of Web Information Systems · 49 citations

• 2nd Global Enterprise Blockchain Benchmarking Study

  Michel Rauchs, Apolline Blandin, Keith Bear · 2019 · SSRN Electronic Journal · 38 citations

• Digitizing global supply chains through blockchain

  Komal Rauniyar, Xiaobo Wu, Shivam Gupta · 2023 · Production Planning & Control · 25 citations

• Blockchain Adoption Model for the Global Banking Industry

  Zaina Kawasmi, Evans Akwasi Gyasi, Deneise Dadd · 2020 · Journal of International Technology and Information Management · 23 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Blockchain adoption and gray markets in a global supply chain

  Qing Zhang, Xiuqi Jiang, Yini Zheng · 2023 · Omega · 73 citations

• Using blockchain for global governance: past, present and future

  Chandan Kumar Tiwari, Abhinav Pal · 2022 · South Asian Journal of Business Studies · 17 citations

• Blockchain and Global Trade: Streamlining Cross Border Transactions with Blockchain

  Yetunde Adeoye, Akintunde Akinyele Osunkanmibi, Erumusele Francis Onotole · 2025 · International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation. · 14 citations

• Random cluster parallel PBFT global consensus for consistent blockchain distributed ledger

  Wassim Abbessi, Sofiane Ouni, Rabeb Ben Othmen · 2025 · Cluster Computing · 12 citations

• Blockchain-enabled asset management: Opportunities, risks and global implications

  Olafisayo Ogunbiyi-Badaru, Olakunle Babatunde Alao, Oritsematosan Faith Dudu · 2024 · Comprehensive Research and Reviews in Multidisciplinary Studies · 10 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The age of cryptocurrencyPaul Vigna · 2015
• 📕Blockchain Technology for Global Social ChangeJane Thomason, Sonja Bernhardt · 2019
• 📕Applied AI and Blockchain in Global Real EstateEduard Babulak · 2025
• 📕AI, IoT, and Blockchain Breakthroughs in E-GovernanceKavita Saini, N. S. Gowri Ganesh · 2023
• Blockchain and CryptocurrencyDean Armstrong QC, Dan Hyde · 2019
• 📕Blockchain Technology Applications in EducationSharma, Ramesh C., Hakan Yildirim · 2019
• 📕Blockchain Applications in IoT SecurityHarshita Patel, Ghanshyam Singh Thakur · 2020
• 📕Glocal Policy and Strategies for BlockchainGülsün Kurubacak, Ramesh Chander Sharma · 2022

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