Dual-Hash Blockchain Architecture for Automated Carbon Auditing with Enhanced Privacy Protection
Accurate carbon footprint accounting is fundamental for urban environmental governance. However, multi-stakeholder transit networks struggle with data manipulation, privacy risks, and labor-intensive manual auditing. To resolve these trust and scalability bottlenecks, this paper introduces a tri-layer hybrid blockchain framework based on an “off-chain storage, on-chain evidence” paradigm. The architecture synergizes a relational database (MySQL) for high-throughput structured data, the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) for decentralized raw evidence, and Hyperledger Fabric to immutably anchor dual-layer cryptographic hashes. We engineer a smart contract auditing pipeline that autonomously executes deterministic verification of hash consistency, emission thresholds, and physical logic integrity. Empirical evaluations utilizing a large-scale urban transit dataset injected with adversarial mutations demonstrate high robustness, achieving F1-scores of 1.000 across multidimensional anomalies. This replaces manual testing with statistically significant verification. Ultimately, this framework provides environmental regulators and transit authorities with a highly scalable, privacy-preserving, and trust-minimized infrastructure for continuous carbon footprint traceability.
Authors
- Qian Cheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3621-5743)
- Fan Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8111-4880)
- Yuzhou Jiang
- Yanan Qiao
Institutions
- Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (CN)
- WuXi AppTec (China) (CN)
- Guizhou Education University (CN)
- Xi'an Jiaotong University (CN)
- Nanjing University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Mathematics
- Published
- 2026-08-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/math14173046
- Primary Topic
- Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00