Motivated by the success of cryptocurrency, blockchain technology has been emerging as a potential technology to be applied in various domains, including finance, computer science, electronic engineering, agriculture, healthcare and more. The blockchain-based emerging applications are able to aid the current systems and networks by leveraging the benefits provided by blockchain technology, such as a decentralized, immutable, and cryptographically secured ledger. The aim of BlockTEA is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines and discuss the recent advancement in blockchain and its emerging applications. BlockTEA is sponsored by EAI and selected papers based on the peer review outcomes will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue.

• Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology
• Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
• Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology
• Blockchain data management and provenance
• Blockchain Performance analysis and optimization
• Simulation and performance evaluation techniques
• Smart contract and chain code
• Applications and services based on blockchain
• Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain
• Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) and cyber physical systems
• Blockchain and information retrieval
• Blockchain and data mining
• Blockchain and artificial intelligence
• Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles
• Cross-blockchain algorithms
• Blockchain storage management
• Blockchain benchmark
• Blockchain consensus mechanisms
• Blockchain and Cryptocurrency