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 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 IoT)
    Protocols and algorithms
    Distributed Ledger Analytics
    Tradeoffs between decentralization, scalability, performance, and security
    Sharding and layer 2
    Combination between Blockchain and distributed databases (e.g., IPFS)

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

    Development languages and tooling
    Security, Privacy, Attacks, Forensics
    Transaction Monitoring and Analysis
    Collaboration between on-chain and off-chain code
    Token Economy and incentives
    NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens) and protocols
    Distributed Trust
    Oracles
    Blockchain as a service
    Blockchain-defined networking

Application and service cases of DLT and Smart-Contracts:

    Identity management (e.g., Self-sovereign Identity and Decentralized Identifiers, Open ID Connect)
    Finance and payments
    DeFi (Decentralized Finance)
    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, Telecom Process and Operation
    Blockchain and AI (e.g., for federated learning)
    Services or Resources Marketplaces
    Public sector Blockchain solutions and infrastructures (e.g., EBSI)
    Blockchain for education, public administration, health
    Results from large collaborative projects on these topics