ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Blockchain
Sec. Blockchain in Industry
Volume 8 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fbloc.2025.1474329
This article is part of the Research TopicSustainable Development in Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Internet of ThingsView all 7 articles
A Secure Rubber Supply Chain Management System Based on Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain: A Use Case in Cambodia
Provisionally accepted
- Pukyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea
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Conventional traceability systems in Cambodian agriculture, such as rubber, rice, and cassava supply chain management, often fail to provide timely data and fair market prices, leading to mistrust among stakeholders, exploitation by intermediaries, and hindering progress towards ethical sourcing and sustainable practices. This paper demonstrates the potential of integrating blockchain, IoT, the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), and Differential Privacy (DP) techniques to empower Cambodian rubber farmers. By leveraging Hyperledger Fabric (HLF), the proposed system enhances transparency and facilitates fair pricing by forming decentralized rubber traceability from supplier to consumer. Integration with IPFS ensures secure and accessible data storage, while differential privacy techniques protect confidential data during information sharing. Our approach facilitates a model for other developing countries aiming to modernize agricultural distribution networks. Numerical results demonstrate that our system achieved the overall performance objectives, including transaction send rates, transaction throughput, and transaction latency. However, the results highlight a trade-off between privacy and performance in blockchain-based agricultural traceability systems. Specifically, while implementing differential privacy techniques enhances data confidentiality, it can slightly reduce system efficiency and scalability compared to configurations without privacy measures.
Keywords: Blockchain, rubber supply chain management, traceability, sustainability, security, Privacy-preserving
Received: 01 Aug 2024; Accepted: 18 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Keo, Firdaus and Rhee. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Kyung-Hyune Rhee, Pukyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea
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