Web3, Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) have the potential to disrupt any domain involving coordination among autonomous resources. This includes finance and payments (e.g., fintech), but also networks (e.g., power grids or telecom networks), computing (e.g., brokering of edge resources), IoT (e.g., supply chain, V2X or industry 4.0) or service platforms (e.g., identity management).

BRAINS conference is dedicated to these advances that could make the world of networks and services more secure while enabling new distributed business models

BRAINS 2024 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE ComSoc, all accepted and presented papers will be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Fundamentals of Blockchain and DLT

    Theoretical contributions to Blockchain, DLT and decentralized storage
    Distributed consensus and fault tolerance solutions, including domain-specific consensus
    Protocols and algorithms
    Distributed ledger analytics
    Trade-offs between decentralization, scalability, performance, and security
    Layer 2 solutions for scalability and privacy
    Blockchain interoperability and cross-chain mechanisms
    Storage solutions and data availability

Fundamentals of Decentralized Apps, Smart contracts, and chain code:

    Languages and tooling for dApp development
    Security, privacy, and forensics 
    Transaction monitoring and analysis
    Collaboration between on-chain and off-chain code
    Token Economy, incentives, and protocols
    Distributed trust
    Oracles
    Blockchain as a service
    Blockchain-defined networking
    Web3, IPFS

Application and service cases of DLT and Smart contracts:

    Identity management
    Finance, payments, and fraud detection and prevention
    Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and payments
    IoT and cyber-physical systems
    Smart grids and Industry 4.0, including dataspaces
    Supply chain management
    V2X, connected and autonomous vehicles
    Networking, Edge, and Cloud technologies
    Blockchain for Beyond 5G and 6G technologies
    Blockchain and AI
    Service or resource marketplaces
    Public sector Blockchain solutions and infrastructures
    Blockchain for education, public administration, health
    Results from large collaborative projects on these topics
    Blockchain for Business Process Management
    Blockchain for Metaverse and Digital Twins
    Regulations and policies