Review Comment:
The authors have diligently worked on their manuscript to address the raised remarks. Many of them are now fixed, and a few of them remain unaddressed.
First, the topic of traceability and auditability seems to have been overlooked. Queries such as CF2 (“Which actions have been performed (including the agents responsible for the execution and the type of the action performed)?” are basically about logging the operations in supply chains. To let an analyst inspect and extract useful process execution information from the stored data. The authors are required to check the comments in the previous review about traceability and auditability, and make sure to address them adequately.
The new paragraph on fungible, non-fungible and semi-fungible tokens should be carefully proofread and revised. Sentences like “non-fungible tokens have their unique values, fungible tokens have the same value as any other tokens of the same type at any given moment” do not characterise the nature of fungibility, particularly because the term “value” is highly generic. Also, the statement “cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are fungible tokens” is highly misleading. In fact, tokens are typically separate as a concept from cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies are means to reward nodes that reach consensus and do other tasks to keep the infrastructure alive and running at a low protocol-stack level. Tokens are instead at a higher level of the protocol and are managed via blockchain platforms backed by the underlying cryptoeconomic mechanisms involving cryptocurrencies. In Ethereum, in particular, the lifecycle of tokens is handled by smart contracts.
By the way, on page 29 we find fungible, non-fungible and semi-fungible smart contracts being named. Sure, smart contracts could be considered a representative concept for tokens. However, such a synecdoche should be avoided here and especially to name entities, not to incur misunderstandings.
On a minor note, the authors should consider avoiding one-sentence paragraphs such as “Dapps have grown particularly as an exchange tool for non-fungible tokens (NFTs).”
Finally, the GitHub repository with the code sources is being kept up-to-date, well organised and documented. However, the files referring to their real-world case study (iExec) appear to be missing and should be added there too.
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