A Blockchain Approach of Model Architecture for Crowdsourcing Design Services under the Context of Social Manufacturing

Abstract

Crowdsourcing design is generally monitored by the platform. However, the traditional crowdsourcing platforms face problems such as centralization, lack of credibility and vulnerability to single point of failure. Under the context of social manufacturing, how to address these potential issues has both research and substantial value. In this paper, we introduce decentralized blockchain technology for crowdsourcing service systems and propose a method to manage and control the process of crowdsourcing design services. We depict complex crowdsourcing logic by smart contract. The process of crowdsourcing design is not dependent on any third party. It is decentralized, tamper-proof, traceable and protects the privacy of users to a certain extent. We implement this crowdsourcing design system on a specific blockchain test network to experiment and test its functionalities. Experiment results show the feasibility and usability of our crowdsourcing design system. In the future, we will further improve the algorithmic logic of smart contracts so that they can run stably and securely in a complex node network environment.

Keywords

• social manufacturing
• crowdsourcing design
• blockchain technology
• smart contract