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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2025, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (3): 128-138.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2021.2367

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Study on Blockchain Consensus Algorithm of International Trade Logistics under Business Audit Process with the Participation of Regulators

Dengfeng Li1, Xiaoli Du2()   

  1. 1.School of Management and Economics,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,Chengdu 611731,China
    2.School of Management Science and Information Engineering,Hebei University of Economics and Business,Shijiazhuang 050061,China
  • Received:2021-11-15 Revised:2022-06-29 Online:2025-03-25 Published:2025-04-07
  • Contact: Xiaoli Du E-mail:sjzduxiao@sina.com

Abstract:

Aiming at the trust problem in the international trade logistics, the blockchain technology is used to build the underlying architecture of the international trade logistics to achieve the disintermediated trust. However, the present researches about the application of blockchain technology don’t consider the participation of regulators, and it does not conform to the business rules of international trade logistics. The business entities of the international trade logistics correspond to the blockchain nodes when the blockchain technology is applied to the international trade logistics. The illegal information can’t avoid to be published if all the business entities write to and read data by themselves. Given consensus algorithm plays a decisive role in building trust, the blockchain consensus is studied considering the regulators participating in the business audit process.The blockchain consensus process and rule are elaborated on considering the participation of regulators. Based on the above, node reputation which is a combination of consensus performance and business performance is introduced to be as a basis for consensus node selection. Secondly, Stackelberg game method is used to build blockchain consensus incentive model. While the change of profit of block manager and consensus nodes in the different situations of considering the participation of regulators or not is analyzed. Lastly, the research results show that the model effective condition of supervision and node reputation. The specific contents of this paper are as follows:Firstly, there are many stakeholders involved in the international trade logistics. According to the effect and correlation of these stakeholders on the business, the business stakeholders are divided into three groups—relevant stakeholders, indirect stakeholders and regulator. In the blockchain application environment, the above-mentioned three groups correspond to the nodes of user nodes, consensus nodes and the regulation nodes. Meanwhile, the identity and function of the business stakeholders are illustrated during the blockchain consensus process.Secondly, the consensus process and rule are elaborated on considering the participation of regulators. Specifically, the consensus rules include the audit content rule, the dynamic change rule for the number of consensus node and the dynamic selection rule of the consensus node. And the consensus process contains publishing trade information, trade review, determining consensus participation nodes, trade consensus validation, gaining consensus, block generated and trade data saved to the blockchain. Based on the above, node reputation is introduced to be as a basis for consensus nodes selection. The calculation of the node reputation considers four aspects: historical and recent consensus performance of the node, history smart contract performance of the node the cumulative freight volume of the node and the participation of the node for illegal trade. Elaborate here, the top-ranking node among the final consensus nodes is the block manager while the others are the consensus nodes.Lastly, Stackelberg game method is used to build blockchain consensus incentive model, and the change of profit of block manager and consensus nodes is analyzed in the different situations of considering the participation of regulators or not. Specifically, the block manager is the leader who deciding the price of the consensus resource and the consensus nodes are the followers who decide the consensus resource input. And the model effective condition of supervision and node reputation is summarized.It can extend the blockchain consensus from technology to participant in this paper. And it provides a reference for considering the role and function positioning of regulatory in blockchain, and it has enlightening function in the realization of regulation-friendly blockchain system.

Key words: international trade logistics, blockchain technology, consensus algorithm, regulators, digital economy

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