A Reference Architecture for Blockchain-Based Crowdsourcing Platforms

Companies increasingly tender knowledge-intensive tasks using crowdsourcing platforms to gain access scarce knowledge and skills otherwise out of reach, in this way, gaining competitive advantage. Despite its potential, existing encounter several challenges, including (1) fragmentation expertise, as there are many platforms, (2) distrust between task providers participants, identity past performance often not known, (3) inability learn from experience due a lack openness. A reference architecture for blockchain-based mediate transactions demand supply is designed paper overcome these challenges. design science research method followed develop the architecture. The shows how blockchain smart contract components can be integrated support coordinate activities. By removing traditional e-commerce intermediaries, reduces search friction, transfer costs, cheating by or participants.