A Blockchain-Based Application System for Product Anti-Counterfeiting

TLDR

Blockchain technology has gained prominence, exemplified by Bitcoin’s ability to prevent double‑spending and verify transaction authenticity without central authority, thereby ensuring tamper‑proof data. The study aims to empower consumers to verify product authenticity independently by leveraging a decentralized blockchain system. The authors propose a decentralized blockchain architecture that enables manufacturers to certify genuine products and distribute them without operating physical stores, thereby lowering quality‑assurance costs.

Abstract

In recent years, blockchain has received increasing attention and numerous applications have emerged from this technology. A renowned Blockchain application is the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, that has not only been effectively solving the double-spending problem but also it can confirm the legitimacy of transactional records without relying on a centralized system to do so. Therefore, any application using Blockchain technology as the base architecture ensures that the contents of its data are tamper-proof. This paper uses the decentralized Blockchain technology approach to ensure that consumers do not fully rely on the merchants to determine if products are genuine. We describe a decentralized Blockchain system with products anti-counterfeiting, in that way manufacturers can use this system to provide genuine products without having to manage direct-operated stores, which can significantly reduce the cost of product quality assurance.