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A First Look at Blockchain-based Decentralized Applications
With the increasing popularity of blockchain technologies in recent years,
blockchain-based decentralized applications (DApps for short in this paper)
have been rapidly developed and widely adopted in many areas, being a hot topic
in both academia and industry. Despite of the importance of DApps, we still
have quite little understanding of DApps along with its ecosystem. To bridge
the knowledge gap, this paper presents the first comprehensive empirical study
of blockchain-based DApps to date, based on an extensive dataset of 995
Ethereum DApps and 29,846,075 transaction logs over them. We make a descriptive
analysis of the popularity of DApps, summarize the patterns of how DApps use
smart contracts to access the underlying blockchain, and explore the
worth-addressing issues of deploying and operating DApps. Based on the
findings, we propose some implications for DApp users to select proper DApps,
for DApp developers to improve the efficiency of DApps, and for blockchain
vendors to enhance the support of DApps