“…Blockchain as an enabling technology has evolved (Bhutta et al, 2021) in the recent 5 years. Blockchain technology has been applied (Syed et al, 2019) and tested in various walks of life, for example, in healthcare (Wang et al, 2018;Zarour et al, 2020;Khatri et al, 2021); business (Mukkamala et al, 2018;Conway and Garimella, 2020;Garcia-Garcia et al, 2020;Syed et al, 2020); finance (Guerar et al, 2020;Zhang et al, 2021); supply chain (Saberi et al, 2019;Chang and Chen, 2020;Valle and Oliver, 2020); security apps (Vishwakarma and Das, 2020;Bai and Liu, 2021;Mendki, 2021); payments systems (Pouraghily and Wolf, 2019;Zouina and Outtai, 2019;Li et al, 2020a); electrical vehicle industry (Li et al, 2021;Xu et al, 2021); and property registration (Ali et al, 2020b). Now, we will review the current and future applications scenarios of blockchain in energy management and trading.…”