A blockchain is a distributed ledger for recording transactions, maintained by many nodes without central authority through a distributed cryptographic protocol. All nodes validate the information to be appended to the blockchain, and a consensus protocol ensures that the nodes agree on a unique order in which entries are appended. This prominent feature of blockchain is well known after the success of its early digital cryptocurrency applications known as Bitcoin. Nowadays more and more innovative applications are using blockchain to explore many new innovative digital financial applications and various decentralized applications that eliminate the need for 3rd party intermediaries, such as identity management, credit management, distrusted/public/shared ledger, crowd-funding, P2P insurance, smart contracts, supply chain management, online voting and medical records. We aim to advance the state of the art in security of blockchain technology and analysis.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in distributed systems, cryptography, and security, from academia and industry, who are interested in the technology and analysis of blockchains and their protocols.
Submissions will be evaluated by the track co-chairs. The evaluation will focus on the novelty, originality, and importance to the field of the workshop topics, and on the adequate structure of proposed sessions.
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
All submissions must be in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE formatting guidelines. All submissions must not exceed 6 pages (including figures and appendices) plus up to 2 pages that contain ONLY references.
Important note: submissions must be compliant with the double-blind policy. The research papers accepted at this workshop will not be published in this proceeding, but their revised, extended versions will be invited to be submitted for a special issue of the IEEE Transaction on Reliability.