A Miniscule Survey on Blockchain Scalability

TL;DR

This paper reviews blockchain scalability, security issues, and applications like healthcare and supply chain, highlighting challenges and potential solutions in the rapidly growing blockchain ecosystem.

Contribution

It provides a concise survey of blockchain scalability challenges, security concerns, and diverse applications, offering an overview for researchers and practitioners.

Findings

Blockchain scalability remains a key challenge.

Security issues are critical for widespread adoption.

Blockchain applications span healthcare, supply chain, and government.

Abstract

With the rise of cryptocurrency and NFTs in the past decade, blockchain technology has been an area of increasing interest to both industry and academic experts. In this paper, we discuss the feasibility of such systems through the lens of scalability. We also briefly dive into the security issues of such systems, as well as some applications, including healthcare, supply chain, and government applications.