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Although P2P energy trading enables communities to exchange locally generated renewable energy in smart environments, existing platforms often lack effective mechanisms to regulate participant behaviour and support reliable transactions. This paper proposes RepuTrade, a blockchain-based P2P energy trading platform tailored for community-scale microgrids. The proposed framework integrates a reputation-based consensus mechanism and a dynamic collateral management scheme that is directly linked to participant reputations such that trading reliability can be strengthened through behavioural incentives. In addition, a reputation-driven matching algorithm preferentially pairs highly reputable participants to improve market stability and trust. Simulation-based evaluation, involving 200 users across 8 trading rounds, shows that the RepuTrade framework consistently achieves higher trade success rates (92\u201399% compared to 83\u201395% in the baseline) and reduces defaults by more than 40% (27\u201344 vs. 55\u201372 per run). The results further reveal a strong negative correlation between user reputation and default probability, indicating that higher reputation is associated with a lower likelihood of dishonest behaviour. Overall, under the simulated settings considered in this study, the proposed framework improves transaction reliability and execution efficiency by reducing failed trades and lowering consensus validation latency. These findings contribute to the design of trust-aware decentralised energy trading mechanisms and provide simulation-based insights for developing more reliable and transparent community-scale renewable energy markets.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/computers15030199","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,23]],"date-time":"2026-03-23T08:47:42Z","timestamp":1774255662000},"page":"199","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["RepuTrade: A Reputation-Based Deposit Consensus Mechanism for P2P Energy Trading in Smart Environments"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0005-7098-3844","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xingyu","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity, Faculty of IT, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ben","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Building 4.0 CRC, Caulfield East, VIC 3145, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5820-2233","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hui","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity, Faculty of IT, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia"},{"name":"Building 4.0 CRC, Caulfield East, VIC 3145, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"143","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rser.2018.10.014","article-title":"Blockchain technology in the energy sector: A systematic review of challenges and opportunities","volume":"100","author":"Andoni","year":"2019","journal-title":"Renew. 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