ReviewChain: Untampered Product Reviews on the Blockchain
Daniel Martens, Walid Maalej

TL;DR
ReviewChain leverages blockchain technology to create a decentralized system for submitting and retrieving tamper-proof product reviews, addressing issues of review manipulation and central authority control.
Contribution
This paper introduces ReviewChain, a novel decentralized review system using blockchain, decentralized apps, and storage to ensure review integrity without central authorities.
Findings
Implementation challenges on Ethereum discussed
Design alternatives with trade-offs analyzed
Decentralized review system demonstrated feasibility
Abstract
Online portals include an increasing amount of user feedback in form of ratings and reviews. Recent research highlighted the importance of this feedback and confirmed that positive feedback improves product sales figures and thus its success. However, online portals' operators act as central authorities throughout the overall review process. In the worst case, operators can exclude users from submitting reviews, modify existing reviews, and introduce fake reviews by fictional consumers. This paper presents ReviewChain, a decentralized review approach. Our approach avoids central authorities by using blockchain technologies, decentralized apps and storage. Thereby, we enable users to submit and retrieve untampered reviews. We highlight the implementation challenges encountered when realizing our approach on the public Ethereum blockchain. For each implementation challange, we discuss…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining · Spam and Phishing Detection · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
