Decentralized platforms: Goals, challenges, and solutions

Abstract

Today there is a trend to deploy both commercial and social applications and services on decentralized platforms. This corresponds to the demands of modern society for openness and transparency of information, freedom of access, and equal rights of participants. However, the more sophisticated architecture of decentralized platforms poses new challenges to the developers of such systems. This paper discusses the goals, tasks, and problems that arise during the transition from traditional (centralized) technologies to decentralized ones, and some potential ways to solve them.