This online appendix provides the list of 34 documentation sources collected for the identification of decentralization drivers of 32 distributed ledger technology (DLT) systems. It accompanies the paper:

Wuwang, Y., Kannengießer, N., Dehling, T., Sturm, B., Sunyaev, A. (2026). Decentralization drivers for purposeful decentralization of distributed ledger technology systems. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), Verona, Italy.

This appendix documents the empirical sources used in the qualitative document analysis. This appendix is supplementary material only. The research design, coding procedure, grounding process, and interpretation of results are described in the main paper.

This file is an online appendix to the associated research paper. The publications listed in this file were collected through a systematic literature search to identify decentralization drivers in distributed ledger technology (DLT) systems. This file can be reused for further literature analyses, meta-studies, or replication purposes.