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Decentralized blockchain-based electronic marketplaces

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In a decentralized marketplace, buyers and sellers transact directly, without manipulation by intermediary platforms.

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            Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 1
            January 2018
            110 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/3176926
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