In its 14 years, distributed ledger technology has attracted increasing attention, investments, enthusiasm, and user base. However, ongoing doubts about its usefulness and recent losses of trust in prominent cryptocurrencies have fueled deeply skeptical assessments. Multiple groups attempted to disentangle the technology from the associated hype and controversy by building workflows for rapid prototyping and informed decision-making, but their mostly isolated work leaves users only with fewer unclarities. To bridge the gaps between these contributions, we develop a holistic analytical framework and open-source web tool for making evidence-based decisions. Consisting of three stages - evaluation, elicitation, and design - the framework relies on input from the users' domain knowledge, maps their choices, and provides an output of needed technology bundles. We apply it to an example clinical use case to clarify the directions of our contribution charts for prototyping, hopefully driving the conversation towards ways to enhance further tools and approaches.

翻译：分布式账本技术在十四年间吸引了越来越多的关注、投资、热情和用户基础。然而，对其实用性的持续质疑以及近期主流加密货币信任度的下降，引发了深刻的怀疑性评估。多个研究团队试图通过构建快速原型设计与知情决策的工作流程，将技术本身与之伴随的炒作和争议分离开来，但这些大多孤立的研究仅减少了用户的部分困惑。为弥合这些贡献之间的差距，我们开发了一个整体性分析框架及开源Web工具，以支持基于证据的决策。该框架包含三个阶段——评估、引导和设计，依赖用户领域知识的输入，映射其选择，并输出所需的技术组合。我们将其应用于一个临床案例，以明晰原型设计贡献图的指导方向，期望推动对话朝向增强进一步工具与方法的路径发展。