Constructing Credit Risk Assessment Model for Blockchain Technology and Supply Chain Finance
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In blockchain-enabled supply chain finance, traditional credit risk assessment models suffer from conflicts between data sharing and privacy protection, reliance on static evaluation methods, and limited data credibility. To overcome these challenges, this paper proposes a blockchain-based dynamic credit risk assessment model that integrates privacy computing and intelligent risk monitoring. First, blockchain’s immutability and traceability ensure the authenticity and transparency of supply chain transaction data, effectively mitigating information asymmetry and data tampering. Second, privacy-preserving technologies, including homomorphic encryption based on the Paillier algorithm and zk-SNARKs, enable secure data sharing and validity verification without exposing sensitive enterprise information, thereby improving assessment reliability. Third, a dynamic risk monitoring framework is constructed by combining smart contracts, long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, and an improved dynamic graph neural network (DGNN). LSTM models temporal risk evolution in transaction data, while DGNN captures risk propagation among upstream and downstream enterprises. Smart contracts synchronize transaction states in real time, allowing continuous updates of credit risk levels. The proposed secure information processing and dynamic graph modeling strategy also provides a valuable reference for trustworthy data interaction and intelligent decision-making in distributed electromagnetic sensing and communication networks, where reliable information propagation and adaptive resource management are essential. Experimental results based on a textile supply chain dataset show that the proposed model achieves approximately 94% credit assessment accuracy, outperforming traditional static models by 15%–20%, while maintaining excellent response speed and throughput for dynamic financial decision-making. The proposed framework provides a practical and secure solution for blockchain-based credit risk management and offers methodological insights for data-driven engineering systems requiring secure information fusion and dynamic network analysis.
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