Journal articleBlockchain: Research and Applications · June 2026
The Purechain Blockchain Network: Architecture, Performance, and Applications
Dong-Seong Kim, Ikechi Saviour Igboanusi, George Chidera Akor
Blockchain: Research and Applications, article 100508. Elsevier
A permissioned, EVM-compatible network whose Proof-of-Authority Association consensus replaces inactive or underperforming validators and whose Smart Auto Mining algorithm pauses mining when there is no transaction load, reported at an average above 2,300 TPS.
BibTeX
@article{kim2026purechain,
author = {Kim, Dong-Seong and Igboanusi, Ikechi Saviour and Akor, George Chidera},
title = {The Purechain Blockchain Network: Architecture, Performance, and Applications},
journal = {Blockchain: Research and Applications},
year = {2026},
pages = {100508},
issn = {2096-7209},
doi = {10.1016/j.bcra.2026.100508}
}
Conference paperICAIIC 2026 · Tokyo, Japan · February 2026
Benchmarking CNN Components in EZKL: A Layer-Level Analysis for EVM-Compatible Deployment
George Chidera Akor, Love Allen Chijioke Ahakonye, Jae Min Lee, Dong-Seong Kim
2026 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication (ICAIIC), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 645–650. IEEE
Measures proving time, memory use and deployment cost layer by layer for CNN components compiled through EZKL, to inform EVM-compatible zkML deployment.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{akor2026ezkl,
author = {Akor, George Chidera and Ahakonye, Love Allen Chijioke and Lee, Jae Min and Kim, Dong-Seong},
title = {Benchmarking {CNN} Components in {EZKL}: A Layer-Level Analysis for {EVM}-Compatible Deployment},
booktitle = {2026 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication (ICAIIC)},
year = {2026},
pages = {645--650},
publisher = {IEEE},
doi = {10.1109/ICAIIC68212.2026.11454315}
}
Towards Quantization-Native Zero-Knowledge Verification for INT4 Large Language Model Inference
George Chidera Akor, Love Allen Chijioke Ahakonye, Jae Min Lee, Dong-Seong Kim
The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS) Winter Conference 2026, pp. 911–912. KICS
Aligns Halo2 circuits, KZG commitments and lookup tables with 4-bit transformer quantization to reduce the overhead of proving INT4 LLM inference.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{akor2026int4,
author = {Akor, George Chidera and Ahakonye, Love Allen Chijioke and Lee, Jae Min and Kim, Dong-Seong},
title = {Towards Quantization-Native Zero-Knowledge Verification for {INT4} Large Language Model Inference},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 KICS Winter Conference},
year = {2026},
pages = {911--912},
publisher = {The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences}
}
Conference paperKICS Fall 2025 · Gyeongju, South Korea · November 2025
PureChain-Based Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Verifiable Machine Learning in Industrial IoT
George Chidera Akor, Love Allen Chijioke Ahakonye, Jae Min Lee, Dong-Seong Kim
The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS) Fall Conference 2025, Gyeongju, South Korea. KICS
Verifies EZKL proofs of a sparse-autoencoder anomaly detector on the PureChain network, reporting ROC-AUC 0.971 on Edge-IIoTset with roughly 69–70 s of proving per sample against 0.80 s of on-chain verification.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{akor2025purechainzkml,
author = {Akor, George Chidera and Ahakonye, Love Allen Chijioke and Lee, Jae Min and Kim, Dong-Seong},
title = {{PureChain}-Based Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Verifiable Machine Learning in Industrial {IoT}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the KICS Fall Conference 2025},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences}
}
Conference paperICTC 2025 · Jeju, Korea · October 2025
ProvAuditChain: A Gas-Efficient On-Chain Provenance Framework for AI-Driven Smart Contract Audits
George Chidera Akor, Love Allen Chijioke Ahakonye, Jae Min Lee, Dong-Seong Kim
2025 16th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC), Jeju, Korea, pp. 1156–1160. IEEE
Anchors cryptographically signed audit-report hashes on an L2 chain with the reports themselves on IPFS, then benchmarks gas, latency and throughput over 600 audit cycles on the Arbitrum Sepolia testnet.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{akor2025provauditchain,
author = {Akor, George Chidera and Ahakonye, Love Allen Chijioke and Lee, Jae Min and Kim, Dong-Seong},
title = {{ProvAuditChain}: A Gas-Efficient On-Chain Provenance Framework for {AI}-Driven Smart Contract Audits},
booktitle = {2025 16th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC)},
year = {2025},
pages = {1156--1160},
publisher = {IEEE},
doi = {10.1109/ICTC66702.2025.11388677}
}
Conference paperICMIC 2025 · Cebu, Philippines · August 2025
Generative Agents for Realistic Mobile Computing and User Behaviour Case
George Chidera Akor, Love Allen Chijioke Ahakonye, Jae-Min Lee, Dong-Seong Kim
2025 International Conference on Mobile, Military, Maritime IT Convergence (ICMIC), Cebu, Philippines, pp. 141–144. IEEE
Compares LLM-driven generative agents with defined personas against a random-action baseline over simulated 24-hour mobile histories, and reports where the agents remain implausible.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{akor2025generative,
author = {Akor, George Chidera and Ahakonye, Love Allen Chijioke and Lee, Jae-Min and Kim, Dong-Seong},
title = {Generative Agents for Realistic Mobile Computing and User Behaviour Case},
booktitle = {2025 International Conference on Mobile, Military, Maritime IT Convergence (ICMIC)},
year = {2025},
pages = {141--144},
publisher = {IEEE},
doi = {10.1109/ICMIC66299.2025.11257744}
}
Conference paperICMIC 2025 · Cebu, Philippines · August 2025
The Purechain Blockchain Network: An Overview
Dong-Seong Kim, Ikechi Saviour Igboanusi, George Chidera Akor
2025 International Conference on Mobile, Military, Maritime IT Convergence (ICMIC), Cebu, Philippines, pp. 262–265. IEEE
The conference overview of the Purechain network, a year ahead of the journal treatment of its architecture and performance.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{kim2025purechainoverview,
author = {Kim, Dong-Seong and Igboanusi, Ikechi Saviour and Akor, George Chidera},
title = {The Purechain Blockchain Network: An Overview},
booktitle = {2025 International Conference on Mobile, Military, Maritime IT Convergence (ICMIC)},
year = {2025},
pages = {262--265},
publisher = {IEEE},
doi = {10.1109/ICMIC66299.2025.11257740}
}
Conference paperICUFN 2025 · Lisbon, Portugal · July 2025
BridgeSync: A Digital Twin Framework for Secure and Intelligent Smart Bridge Monitoring
Judith Nkechinyere Njoku, Kalibbala Jonathan Mukisa, Oroceo Paul Angelo, George Chidera Akor, Jae-Min Lee, Dong-Seong Kim
2025 Sixteenth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 459–464. IEEE
A digital-twin framework that pairs edge caching for offline sensor data with a low-cost blockchain ledger for tamper-evident storage, validated against three modelled bridges.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{njoku2025bridgesync,
author = {Njoku, Judith Nkechinyere and Mukisa, Kalibbala Jonathan and Angelo, Oroceo Paul and Akor, George Chidera and Lee, Jae-Min and Kim, Dong-Seong},
title = {{BridgeSync}: A Digital Twin Framework for Secure and Intelligent Smart Bridge Monitoring},
booktitle = {2025 Sixteenth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN)},
year = {2025},
pages = {459--464},
publisher = {IEEE},
doi = {10.1109/ICUFN65838.2025.11169959}
}
Conference paperKICS Summer 2025 · Jeju, South Korea · June 2025
Small Language Model Resilience to AST-Based Obfuscation Attacks on Reentrancy Vulnerability Detection
George Chidera Akor, Love Allen Chijioke Ahakonye, Jae Min Lee, Dong-Seong Kim
The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS) Summer Conference 2025, Jeju, South Korea. KICS
Measures how semantics-preserving AST identifier renaming changes reentrancy-detection F1 for two 7B code models over 50 Solidity contracts, and finds the two respond in opposite directions.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{akor2025slm,
author = {Akor, George Chidera and Ahakonye, Love Allen Chijioke and Lee, Jae Min and Kim, Dong-Seong},
title = {Small Language Model Resilience to {AST}-Based Obfuscation Attacks on Reentrancy Vulnerability Detection},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the KICS Summer Conference 2025},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences}
}