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Easypay: a user-friendly blockchain-powered payment gateway

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Digital payment gateways have become an essential part of the modern economy, facilitating online transactions and enabling e-commerce activities. The centralization of these gateways has led to a lack of transparency, long processing time, high fees, a central point of failure and a significant risk of fraud. Blockchain technology has the potential to address these problems and revolutionize the way to handle digital transactions. In this paper, a blockchain-based solution, named EasyPay, is proposed to create a simple, easy-to-use, decentralized, secured and transparent digital payment gateway with a good user-friendly interface. In EasyPay, a MetaMask account is used as a crypto wallet that interacts with the Ethereum blockchain network, and a smart contract is designed using Solidity to validate transactions. The accessibility and security of the proposed payment gateway are increased by integrating a QR code with EasyPay. Experimental results show 95% performance and 100% accessibility with an SEO score of 80% of the proposed EasyPay system from GooglePageInsights. The proposed EasyPay system offers a superior market segment and accessibility, according to comparison data between it and other cryptocurrency platforms.

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  1. Jhuma Dutta, Subhas Barman, Soubhik Sen, Aniruddha Routh, Matangini Chattopadhyay and Samiran Chattopadhyay have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India

    Jhuma Dutta, Subhas Barman, Soubhik Sen & Aniruddha Routh

  2. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Matangini Chattopadhyay & Samiran Chattopadhyay

  3. Techno India University, Kolkata, India

    Samiran Chattopadhyay

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J.D. and S.B. concept and design, prepared figures and prepared the initial manuscript; S.S. implemented the coding of the front end and QR code; A.R. implemented the coding for the smart contract and blockchain; M.C. analyzed and interpreted the results; and S.C. supervised the implementation and edited the manuscript. All authors reviewed the manuscript.

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Dutta, J., Barman, S., Sen, S. et al. Easypay: a user-friendly blockchain-powered payment gateway. Cluster Comput (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-024-04506-3

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