We're thrilled to announce the release of our latest book, Blockchain Engineering: Principles, Design, and Integration (Springer, 2025). This work is the culmination of years of research, design insight, and applied experimentation across a wide spectrum of blockchain use cases, especially in complex domains like healthcare, finance, legal systems, and social media.
Why This Book Matters Now
As blockchain technology continues to mature, there's a growing need to move beyond pilot experiments and ad-hoc solutions. The demand is clear: we must engineer robust, secure, and ethical blockchain applications that can scale, interoperate, and meet stringent regulatory and privacy requirements. This is especially urgent in healthcare, where data integrity, confidentiality, and accessibility are life-critical.
This book offers a systematic, engineering-driven approach to blockchain development. This means going beyond coding smart contracts or launching decentralized applications (dApps). It starts with requirements engineering, extends through domain modelling, and culminates in the development of reusable, verifiable reference architectures.
Engineering Blockchain in Healthcare and dApps
One of the most pressing challenges in blockchain adoption — especially in healthcare — is ensuring the technology serves patient outcomes, clinician efficiency, and compliance standards like GDPR and HIPAA. This book proposes a methodology for Requirements Engineering for Blockchain, Domain Modelling, and Reference Architectures — offering reusable blueprints for different domains, helping teams develop secure, interoperable systems faster and with more confidence.
Integrating AI and Blockchain: A Convergence for Data Protection
Another core theme of the book is the integration of AI and blockchain — a powerful synergy that is reshaping industries. AI enables real-time analytics, anomaly detection, and personalization. Blockchain offers tamper-resistance, auditability, and decentralized control. Together, they form a new foundation for applications that are secure, explainable, and fair.
We're at a pivotal moment where blockchain can evolve from hype to infrastructure. But that evolution requires engineering discipline, ethical reflection, and cross-domain integration — particularly with AI.
