Blockchain technology attracted a great deal of attention with its first application Bitcoin. In addition to the multitude of practical solutions, initiatives and research efforts of the industry, the number of scientific publications on the topic of blockchain is comparatively low. Right now, there is a lack of universal standards and uniform terminology. One way of documenting blockchain technology could be a morphological box. In addition to the advantage of clarity, this type of information structuring offers further advantages that can be considered helpful in creating a comprehensive overview. In order to create such a morphological box, various features of the blockchain technology must be identified and described in detail. One of these features is the “business model”, for which the 4 different characteristics “infrastructure provider”, “platform provider”, “system integrator” and “application provider” have been identified.
