Blockchain Technology for Secure and Decentralized Data Management

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      author = {Darshankumar Jaysukh Dhanani},
      title = {Blockchain Technology for Secure and Decentralized Data Management},
      journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
      year = {2026},
      volume = {10},
      number = {1},
      pages = {2968-2982},
      issn = {2456-8880},
      url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1720159.pdf},
      abstract = {The advent of blockchain technology has created a paradigm shift in the way digital data can be securely, transparently and decentralized managed, a paradigm that could potentially replace the longstanding centralized digital information systems. This is a full journal-grade review of blockchain as a tool to ensure trustless, immutability and decentralized data governance in a variety of important application fields. The study, which is based on a systematic review of 20 peer-reviewed publications from 2023 to 2025, explores the essential structural elements of blockchain systems: Distributed ledger structures, cryptographic hash functions, Merkle tree integrity verification, consensus mechanisms, and smart contracts, and how they all contribute to removing single points of failure and institutional trust dependencies. There is a comparative study of the various public, private and consortium blockchain types, as well as the evaluation of the various consensus algorithms, such as Proof of Work (PoW), Proof of Stake (PoS) and Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT). The results show that data management systems based on blockchain technology always have superior data integrity, access auditability, censorship resistance, and user data sovereignty properties compared to centralized systems, and come with trade-offs in scalability, energy efficiency, and compliance with regulations. Evidence collected for the application has come from health care organizations' record management, supply chain traceability, decentralized identity systems, Internet of Things (IoT) data integrity, an energy company data management system, and cybersecurity threat intelligence, among other contexts. Key challenges and emerging technologies, such as quantum computing systems, post quantum cryptographic standards, layer-two rollups, sharding and zero-knowledge proofs, are explored in tandem with the blockchain trilemma, GDPR compliance issues and cross-chain interoperability. The study finds that blockchain-based data management is moving from the experimental stage to becoming a core component to the digital economy's infrastructure.},
      keywords = {Blockchain, Decentralized Data Management, Distributed Ledger Technology, Smart Contracts, Consensus Mechanisms, Cryptographic Security, Digital Identity, Supply Chain, IoT, Data Sovereignty, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Interoperability},
      month = {July},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV10I1-1720159}
  }