The Transparency Challenge in Blockchain-Enabled Sustainable Development Goals Applications: Exploring Privacy-Preserving Techniques and Emerging Platforms
Blockchain technology has emerged as a key enabler for achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by offering transparent, decentralized solutions across multiple sectors. However, its inherent transparency introduces significant privacy challenges, particularly in...
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| author | Ahcene Bounceur Ahmed-Sami Berkani Hamouma Moumen Saber Benharzallah |
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| description | Blockchain technology has emerged as a key enabler for achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by offering transparent, decentralized solutions across multiple sectors. However, its inherent transparency introduces significant privacy challenges, particularly in sensitive areas such as healthcare, energy, finance, and supply chains, where confidentiality is critical. To address this tension, this paper explores a range of emerging privacy-preserving techniques, including Ring Signatures, Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC), Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), and mixers, analyzing their implementation, effectiveness, and limitations. Furthermore, we conduct a detailed technical study of next-generation blockchain platforms that integrate these techniques to balance privacy, scalability, and interoperability. Our contributions include a deep dive into privacy challenges in blockchain applications for SDGs, a comparative analysis of privacy-preserving solutions, a comprehensive evaluation of emerging platforms, and a review of existing research that leverages these privacy techniques in SDG-related domains. This work aims to provide critical insights into how blockchain technology can be effectively adapted to support sustainable development while safeguarding sensitive data. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3accba4825d04073b71dfbf2425bc9922025-08-20T03:49:17ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113817698179310.1109/ACCESS.2025.356734110988876The Transparency Challenge in Blockchain-Enabled Sustainable Development Goals Applications: Exploring Privacy-Preserving Techniques and Emerging PlatformsAhcene Bounceur0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0043-7742Ahmed-Sami Berkani1https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4170-4826Hamouma Moumen2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1986-7590Saber Benharzallah3College of Computing and Informatics, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesComputer Science Department, University of Batna 2, Batna, AlgeriaComputer Science Department, University of Batna 2, Batna, AlgeriaComputer Science Department, University of Batna 2, Batna, AlgeriaBlockchain technology has emerged as a key enabler for achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by offering transparent, decentralized solutions across multiple sectors. However, its inherent transparency introduces significant privacy challenges, particularly in sensitive areas such as healthcare, energy, finance, and supply chains, where confidentiality is critical. To address this tension, this paper explores a range of emerging privacy-preserving techniques, including Ring Signatures, Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC), Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), and mixers, analyzing their implementation, effectiveness, and limitations. Furthermore, we conduct a detailed technical study of next-generation blockchain platforms that integrate these techniques to balance privacy, scalability, and interoperability. Our contributions include a deep dive into privacy challenges in blockchain applications for SDGs, a comparative analysis of privacy-preserving solutions, a comprehensive evaluation of emerging platforms, and a review of existing research that leverages these privacy techniques in SDG-related domains. This work aims to provide critical insights into how blockchain technology can be effectively adapted to support sustainable development while safeguarding sensitive data.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10988876/Blockchainconfidentialityprivacysustainable development goals |
| spellingShingle | Ahcene Bounceur Ahmed-Sami Berkani Hamouma Moumen Saber Benharzallah The Transparency Challenge in Blockchain-Enabled Sustainable Development Goals Applications: Exploring Privacy-Preserving Techniques and Emerging Platforms IEEE Access Blockchain confidentiality privacy sustainable development goals |
| title | The Transparency Challenge in Blockchain-Enabled Sustainable Development Goals Applications: Exploring Privacy-Preserving Techniques and Emerging Platforms |
| title_full | The Transparency Challenge in Blockchain-Enabled Sustainable Development Goals Applications: Exploring Privacy-Preserving Techniques and Emerging Platforms |
| title_fullStr | The Transparency Challenge in Blockchain-Enabled Sustainable Development Goals Applications: Exploring Privacy-Preserving Techniques and Emerging Platforms |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Transparency Challenge in Blockchain-Enabled Sustainable Development Goals Applications: Exploring Privacy-Preserving Techniques and Emerging Platforms |
| title_short | The Transparency Challenge in Blockchain-Enabled Sustainable Development Goals Applications: Exploring Privacy-Preserving Techniques and Emerging Platforms |
| title_sort | transparency challenge in blockchain enabled sustainable development goals applications exploring privacy preserving techniques and emerging platforms |
| topic | Blockchain confidentiality privacy sustainable development goals |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10988876/ |
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