Call For Papers
Decentralized technologies (Web3, Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technologies, Distributed Storage and Computation as IPFS) have started to disrupt multiple domains, including finance and payments, but also networks, computing, supply chain, identity management, and Artificial Intelligence with decentralized learning.
The BRAINS conference is dedicated to these advances that could make the world of networks and services more secure while enabling new distributed business models.
This year, a new DeFi track is open to both technically oriented and economics-oriented papers. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary work that combines blockchain protocols, smart contract engineering, and DeFi market design, as well as empirical and theoretical studies on crypto-economics and financial innovation.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Effective challenges for decentralized systems
- 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, and security
- Zero-Knowledge proofs
- Layer 2 solutions for scalability and privacy
- Blockchain interoperability and cross-chain mechanisms
- Storage solutions and data availability
- Censorship resistance and fair ordering
- Malicious or self-serving attacks, and defenses
- Obstacles to achieving effective decentralization
Fundamentals of Decentralized Apps, Smart contracts, and chain code
- Languages and tooling for dApp development
- Security, privacy, and forensics
- Formal methods for blockchain
- Transaction monitoring and analysis
- Collaboration between on-chain and off-chain code
- Blockchain-defined networking
- Web3 and distributed storage and computation
Application and service cases of DLT and Smart contracts
- Identity management
- Finance, payments, and fraud detection and prevention
- IoT and cyber-physical systems
- Smart grids and Industry 4.0, including dataspaces
- V2X, connected and autonomous vehicles
- Networking, Edge, and Cloud technologies
- Blockchain for Beyond 5G and 6G technologies
- Service or resource marketplaces
- Public sector Blockchain solutions and infrastructures
- Results from large collaborative projects on these topics
- Blockchain for education, public administration, health
- Blockchain for Business Process and Supply Chain Management
- Regulation and policies
Blockchain and AI
- Machine learning and AI for blockchain security
- Federated and decentralized learning for blockchain systems
- Large Language Models for blockchain
- Using Blockchain for agentic AI
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Track (Open to both technical and economics/finance-oriented papers on blockchain and DeFi.)
- AMMs (Automated Market Makers)
- Lending Protocols
- Stablecoins
- Restaking
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
- DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks)
- Prediction Markets
- AI Agents & DeFi
- DeFi and Privacy
Blockchain for Information Systems and Business Process Management
- On-chain and off-chain data and processes integration
- Business processes auditing and monitoring on blockchain
- Process mining techniques for blockchain-based systems
- Software architecture for blockchain-based information systems
- Modeling aspects for processes and data in blockchain-based systems
Student Track
We encourage the submission of student papers (i.e., all authors of the paper must be MSc or PhD students) on the topics mentioned in the CFP. Student papers have to be clearly stated on the first page. The papers should follow the same guidelines as short papers (max 4 pages) and be submitted on the dedicated track for student papers.