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 new advances that could make the world of networks and services more secure, while enabling disruptive new distributed business models.

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

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Fundamentals of Blockchain and DLT:

    Theoretical contributions on Blockchain and DLT
    Distributed consensus and fault tolerance solutions, including domain-specific consensus (e.g., for networking)
    Tradeoffs between decentralization, scalability, performance and security
    Protocols and algorithms

Decentralized Apps, Smart contracts and chain code:

    Development languages and tooling
    Security, Privacy, Attacks, Forensics
    Transaction Monitoring and Analysis
    Token Economy
    Distributed Trust
    Collaboration between on-chain and off-chain code
    Oracles, DeFi, NFT dapps and protocols

Application and service cases of DLT and Smart-Contracts:

    Finance and payments
    IoT and cyber physical systems
    Smart grids and Industry 4.0
    Networking, Edge and Cloud Technologies
    5G Technologies, Telecom Process and Operation
    Supply chain management
    V2X, connected and autonomous vehicles
    Services or Resources Marketplaces
    Blockchain as a service
    Blockchain-defined networking