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Firdous Kausar , Sajid Hussain , Shahid Mumtaz ·

YOU? · · 2025 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/cryptography9040074

The metaverse represents a transformative integration of virtual and physical worlds, offering unprecedented opportunities for social interaction, commerce, education, healthcare, and entertainment. Establishing trust in these expansive and decentralized environments remains a critical challenge. Blockchain technology, with its decentralized, secure, and immutable nature, is emerging as an essential pillar of trust and digital asset ownership within the metaverse. This paper provides an extensive review of blockchain-enabled trust and reputation frameworks specifically tailored to metaverse ecosystems. We present an in-depth analysis of existing blockchain solutions across diverse metaverse domains, including gaming, virtual real estate, healthcare, and education. Our core contributions include a comprehensive taxonomy that classifies current trust and reputation schemes by their underlying mechanisms, threat models addressed, and their architectural strategies. We provide a comparative benchmark analysis evaluating key performance metrics such as security robustness, scalability, user privacy, and cross-platform interoperability, revealing critical trade-offs inherent in current designs. Our analysis finds that score-based designs trade scalability for nuanced reputation representation, while SSI- and SBT-based approaches improve Sybil-resistance but introduce significant privacy governance challenges. Finally, we outline unresolved research challenges, including cross-platform reputation portability, privacy-preserving computation, real-time trust management, and standardized governance structures.

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