{"id":204,"date":"2026-05-07T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brains.dnac.org\/2026\/?page_id=204"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:46:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:46:46","slug":"bdepin-energy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brains.dnac.org\/2026\/bdepin-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"BDePIN-Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #077ff0;\"><strong>Workshop on Blockchain &amp; DePIN for Decentralized Energy Systems (<i>BDePIN-Energy)<\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The global energy system is undergoing a profound transformation driven by the proliferation of distributed <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">energy resources (DERs) such as rooftop solar panels, wind turbines, and residential batteries. These <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prosumers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014agents who both produce and consume electricity\u2014challenge the traditional unidirectional <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">power grid model, creating an urgent need for decentralized coordination mechanisms that can match <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">local supply and demand efficiently, fairly, and without centralized intermediaries. The April 2025 Iberian <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peninsula blackout\u2014triggered by instabilities at large-scale solar farms\u2014underscores the systemic risks <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inherent in centralized energy architectures and the case for decentralized resilience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blockchain technology and Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) offer a compelling <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">toolkit to address these challenges. Smart contracts can automate market clearing; AMM-style pricing <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mechanisms can coordinate prosumers without requiring bilateral negotiations; and tokenized incentive schemes can reward distributed energy contributions at scale. Yet rigorous, interdisciplinary research at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the intersection of blockchain infrastructure and energy economics remains nascent. This workshop brings <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">together researchers from distributed systems, economics, mechanism design, and power engineering to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">advance this frontier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The BDePIN-Energy workshop invites original research contributions at the intersection of blockchain <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">technology, decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN), and energy systems. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a9ff5;\"><strong>Topics<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Topics of interest <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">include (but are not limited to):\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Automated Market Makers and CFMM-based mechanisms for energy trading<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smart contract design for peer-to-peer (P2P) energy markets\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> DePIN architectures for smart metering, grid telemetry, and sensor verification<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Game-theoretic analysis of prosumer behavior in decentralized energy communities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Incentive design and tokenomics for distributed energy resources (DERs)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mean-field game models of large-scale prosumer populations\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Privacy-preserving protocols for energy data and settlements\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Integration of blockchain with demand-side management and battery optimization<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Empirical studies of existing DePIN and energy blockchain deployments\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Regulatory and governance challenges for decentralized energy markets\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #077ff0;\"><strong>Submission guidelines<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Papers submitted to <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>BDePIN-Energy <\/i><\/span>2026 Workshop will be assessed based on originality, technical soundness, clarity and interest to a wide audience. All submissions must be written in English and must use standard <strong>IEEE two-column conference template<\/strong>, available for download from the IEEE website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee.org\/conferences\/publishing\/templates.html\">https:\/\/www.ieee.org\/conferences\/publishing\/templates.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Workshop papers can be <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>6\u201310 pages<\/strong> (excluding references).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done electronically through EDAS at: <a href=\"https:\/\/edas.info\/N35433\">https:\/\/edas.info\/N35433<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Accepted papers will be <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in the BRAINS 2026 proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><span style=\"color: #077ff0;\"><strong>Important Deadlines:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Workshop paper submission deadline:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>15<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>July 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Acceptance notification:\u00a0<strong><em>1 September 2026<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Camera-ready paper submission:\u00a0<em><strong>15 September 2026<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Full day workshop: <strong>13 October 2026<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0c84f5;\"><strong>Workshop Chairs<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"row listeCommitee\"><div class=\"col-lg-6\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brains.dnac.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Michele-Fabi.jpeg\" class=\"img-rounded imageCommitee\" alt=\"Michele Fabi - BRAINS 2026\"><p><b>Michele Fabi<\/b><br>(Telecom Paris, CREST, IP Paris, France)<\/p><\/div><div class=\"col-lg-6\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brains.dnac.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Matheus-X.V.-Ferreira-.webp\" class=\"img-rounded imageCommitee\" alt=\"Matheus X.V. Ferreira - BRAINS 2026\"><p><b>Matheus X.V. Ferreira<\/b><br>(University of Virginia, USA)<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row listeCommitee\"><div class=\"col-lg-12\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brains.dnac.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Viraj-Nadkarni-1-1.png\" class=\"img-rounded imageCommitee\" alt=\"Viraj Nadkarni - BRAINS 2026\"><p><b>Viraj Nadkarni<\/b><br>(Princeton University, USA)<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workshop on Blockchain &amp; DePIN for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brains.dnac.org\/2026\/elika_speaker\/viraj-nadkarni\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-204","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BDePIN-Energy - BRAINS 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/brains.dnac.org\/2026\/bdepin-energy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BDePIN-Energy - BRAINS 2026\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Workshop on Blockchain &amp; 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