Using smart contracts to attract conservation investment by Chesney, C

“…Exploratory research into what smart contracts can afford to conservation and the creation of a model smart contract using the European Wildlife Bank as a case study were used to answer this question. …”

Blockchain smart contracts for grid connection management in achieving net zero energy systems by Hua, W, Jing, R, Zhou, Y, Zhang, X, Jiang, J, Sun, H

“…This paper proposes a Blockchain smart contracts based platform to manage the grid connection for both large scale generation companies and individual prosumers (both producers and consumers). …”

On-demand energy flexibility market via smart contracts to help reduce balancing costs in Great Britain by Savelli, I, Bokkisam, HR, Cuffe, P, Morstyn, T

“…Blockchain technologies leveraging smart contracts can provide an autonomous, cost-saving and transparent tool to help engage these users in the provision of flexibility services to the grid. …”

Code: and other laws of blockchain by Zou, M

“…Code necessarily interacts with other modes of regulation, namely the market, social norms and law, in constraining the operation of blockchain applications such as smart contracts. This argument also situates smart contracts in a relational analysis of real-world contracting practices.…”

Consumer-centric decarbonization framework using Stackelberg game and Blockchain by Hua, W, Jiang, J, Sun, H, Teng, F, Strbac, G

“…The exchanged information and controlling functions are realized by using smart contracts of Blockchain technologies. Case studies of GB power systems show that the proposed framework can incentivize 9% more bill savings for consumers and 45.13% more energy generation from renewable energy sources. …”

Blockchain enabled decentralized local electricity markets with flexibility from heating sources by Hua, W, Hua, W, Zhou, Y, Qadrdan, M, Wu, J, Jenkins, N

“…This paper proposes a novel Blockchain based peer-to-peer trading architecture which integrates negotiation-based auction and pricing mechanisms in local electricity markets, through automating, standardizing, and self-enforcing trading procedures using smart contracts. The negotiation of the volume and price of the peer-to-peer electricity trading among prosumers is modeled as a cooperative game, and the interaction between a retailer and its ensemble of prosumers is modeled as a Stackelberg game. …”

Blockchain, consent and prosent for medical research by Porsdam Mann, S, Savulescu, J, Ravaud, P, Benchoufi, M

“…In addition, some aspects of consent and data collection, as well as data access management and analysis, can be automated using blockchain-based smart contracts. This paper demonstrates how blockchain technologies can be used to further all three of the bioethical principles underlying consent requirements: the autonomy of patients, by giving them much greater control over their data; beneficence, by greatly facilitating medical research efficiency and by reducing biases and opportunities for errors; and justice, by enabling patients with rare or under-researched conditions to pseudonymously aggregate their data for analysis. …”

Corporate technologies and the tech nirvana fallacy by Enriques, L, Zetzsche, DA

“…This Article introduces the term Corporate Technologies (“CorpTech”) to refer to the use of distributed ledgers, smart contracts, Big Data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning in the corporate context and analyzes the impact of CorpTech on the future of corporate boards. …”

Split derivatives: Inside the world’s most misunderstood contract by Awrey, A

“…It also exposes the potential perils of recent proposals to use distributed ledger technology and smart contracts to execute, clear, and settle these contracts. …”

Confidential remote computing by Küçük, KA

“…Many-party applications can vary from smart-grid systems to electronic voting infrastructures and block-chain smart contracts to internet-of-things deployments. Next, our research extensively examines private algorithms executing inside trusted hardware enclaves. …”