Blockchain is considered as a major emerging technology that is having an ever‐increasing spread both in industrial and academic contexts. As the usage of blockchain keeps increasing, a fourth generation of blockchain platforms is being proposed. Thus, applications of blockchain have evolved towards wider scopes than cryptocurrency and asset management. In this context, it is important for practitioners to have deep understanding of various blockchain assessment initiatives. Therefore, this work discusses blockchain assessment initiatives from a technology evolution viewpoint. Furthermore, a mapping was conducted to identify factors that impact blockchain initiatives, synthesize available evidence, and identify gaps between relevant approaches available in the literature. As a result, nine selected works were analyzed based on applicability, research approach, assessment process, blockchain adoption process, and blockchain waves. The findings can help practitioners to understand the main assessment factors that undermine blockchain implementations.

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对区块链评估计划的批判性回顾：技术演进的观点

区块链被认为是一种主要的新兴技术，在工业和学术背景下都在不断扩大。随着区块链的使用不断增加，第四代区块链平台正在被提出。因此，区块链的应用已经朝着比加密货币和资产管理更广泛的范围发展。在此背景下，从业者深入了解各种区块链评估举措非常重要。因此，这项工作从技术演进的角度讨论了区块链评估计划。此外，还进行了映射以确定影响区块链计划的因素，综合可用的证据，并确定文献中可用的相关方法之间的差距。结果，根据适用性分析了九个选定的作品，研究方法、评估过程、区块链采用过程和区块链浪潮。研究结果可以帮助从业者了解破坏区块链实施的主要评估因素。