Beyond Platforms -- Growing Distributed Transaction Networks for Digital Commerce

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18602v2
• Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:21:12 GMT
• Title: Beyond Platforms -- Growing Distributed Transaction Networks for Digital Commerce
• Authors: Yvonne Dittrich, Kim Peiter Jørgensen, Ravi Prakash, Willard Rafnsson, Jonas Kastberg Hinrichsen,
• Abstract summary: It is not well understood how to evolve, adapt and govern decentralised infrastructures.<n>This article reports empirical research on the development and governance of the Beckn Protocol.<n>It explores how the architecture and governance support local innovation for specific business domains.
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• Abstract: We talk of the internet as digital infrastructure; but we leave the building of rails and roads to the quasi-monopolistic platform providers. Decentralised architectures provide a number of advantages: They are potentially more inclusive for small players; more resilient against adversarial events; and seem to generate more innovation. However, it is not well understood how to evolve, adapt and govern decentralised infrastructures. This article reports empirical research on the development and governance of the Beckn Protocol, an open source protocol for decentralised transactions, the successful development of domain-specific adaptations, and implementation and scaling of commercial infrastructures based on it. It explores how the architecture and governance support local innovation for specific business domains, and how the domain-specific innovations feed back into the development of the core concept The research applied a case study approach, combining interviews with core members of the Beckn community; triangulated by interviews with community leaders of domain specific adaptations and by analysis of online documents and the protocol itself. The article shows the possibility of such a decentralised approach to IT Infrastructures. It analyses the Beckn Protocol, domain specific adaptations, and networks built as a software ecosystem. Based on this analysis, a number of generative mechanisms, socio-technical arrangements that support adoption, innovation, and scaling of infrastructures are highlighted.

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