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Measurements, Analyses, and Insights on the Entire Ethereum Blockchain Network

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Measurements, Analyses, and Insights on the Entire Ethereum Blockchain Network A summary of the WebConf 2020 (formerly WWW) research  paper  by Xi Tong Lee, Arijit Khan, Sourav Sen Gupta, Yu Hann Ong, and Xuan Liu. Background of the Ethereum Blockchain :  It has been more than ten years since Bitcoin [1] introduced the era of decentralized community-controlled currency. Since then, several cryptocurrency variants like Litecoin, Namecoin, Dash, Zcash, have been introduced. Blockchains are increasingly becoming popular due to the prevalence of such cryptocurrencies and decentralized applications. Decentralized applications are written on the framework of numerous blockchain networks like Hyperledger, Corda, Ripple, Stellar, EOS, NEO, IOTA, and many more. Among them, Ethereum [2] is a distributed public blockchain network that focuses on running code (smart contracts) for decentralized applications. More simply, it is a platform for sharing information in a global state that can