A peer-to-peer blockchain-based architecture for trusted and reliable agricultural product traceability

Abstract

The lack of new and advanced technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Fog computing, makes it challenging to trace the origin of agricultural products in supply chains. In addition, the system’s traditional centralized architecture cannot provide a trusted traceability service for farming goods in these supply chains. This paper proposes a peer-to-peer Blockchain-based architecture integrating self-sovereign identity (SSI) and a decentralized key management system (DKMS) for a trusted and reliable traceability service for agricultural food products in the supply chain networks. The public Blockchain network Fantom will provide faster and cheaper transactions. In contrast, SSI will ensure the identity of each entity by adopting DKMS technology on top of Blockchain to facilitate faster authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality service of the supply chain’s transaction and verification process. The system is deployed on the different public networks, i.e., Fantom and Ethereum, and shows that the proposed Fantom-based Blockchain network outperforms in terms of transaction and verification timing.