{"id":42,"date":"2026-02-06T10:34:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brains.dnac.org\/2026\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:52:28","slug":"call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brains.dnac.org\/2026\/call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Call For Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #158eeb;\"><strong>Call For Papers<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decentralized technologies (Web3<\/span><b>, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #158eeb;\"><b>Effective challenges for decentralized systems<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Theoretical contributions to Blockchain, DLT and decentralized storage<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Distributed consensus and fault tolerance solutions, including domain-specific consensus<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protocols and algorithms<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Distributed ledger analytics<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trade-offs between decentralization, scalability, and security<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zero-Knowledge proofs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Layer 2 solutions for scalability and privacy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blockchain interoperability and cross-chain mechanisms<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Storage solutions and data availability<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Censorship resistance and fair ordering<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malicious or self-serving attacks, and defenses<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obstacles to achieving effective decentralization<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #158eeb;\"><strong>Fundamentals of Decentralized Apps, Smart contracts, and chain code<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Languages and tooling for dApp development<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security, privacy, and forensics<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Formal methods for blockchain<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transaction monitoring and analysis<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collaboration between on-chain and off-chain code<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blockchain-defined networking<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web3 and distributed storage and computation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #158eeb;\"><b>Application and service cases of DLT and Smart contracts<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identity management<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finance, payments, and fraud detection and prevention<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IoT and cyber-physical systems<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smart grids and Industry 4.0, including dataspaces<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">V2X, connected and autonomous vehicles<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Networking, Edge, and Cloud technologies<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blockchain for Beyond 5G and 6G technologies<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Service or resource marketplaces<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public sector Blockchain solutions and infrastructures<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Results from large collaborative projects on these topics<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blockchain for education, public administration, health<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blockchain for Business Process and Supply Chain Management<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regulation and policies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #158eeb;\"><b>Blockchain and AI<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Machine learning and AI for blockchain security<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Federated and decentralized learning for blockchain systems<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Large Language Models for blockchain<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using Blockchain for agentic AI<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #158eeb;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #158eeb;\">Decentralized Finance (DeFi)<\/span> <\/strong><b>Track (Open to both technical and economics\/finance-oriented papers on blockchain and DeFi.)\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AMMs (Automated Market Makers)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lending Protocols\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stablecoins<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Restaking<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decentralized Autonomous Organizations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prediction Markets\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI Agents &amp; DeFi<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DeFi and Privacy<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #158eeb;\"><b>Blockchai<span style=\"color: #158eeb;\">n for Information<\/span> Systems and Business Process Management<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On-chain and off-chain data and processes integration<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business processes auditing and monitoring on blockchain<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Process mining techniques for blockchain-based systems<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Software architecture for blockchain-based information systems<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Modeling aspects for processes and data in blockchain-based systems<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #158eeb;\"><strong>Student Track<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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. 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