8th International Workshop on
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - CBT 2024

Bydgoszcz, Poland, September 19, 2024
  In conjunction with ESORICS 2024 and DPM 2024.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline:

June 23, 2024
June 30, 2024
(extended)

Notification:

July 22, 2024
July 26, 2024

Camera Ready:

August 19, 2024

CFP 2024

LNCS Proceedings

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News

An updated version of the program is now available (v3).

The first version of the pre-proceedings (joint with DPM) is now available (v1).

Please contact cbt2024@easychair.org in case of doubts and questions.

The workshop is an on-site event only. However, a video presentation for paper 8 (Homomorphic Encryption Based ECDSA Generation Over Five Party Protocol) is available online.

Aims and Scope

Since the appearance of Bitcoin in 2009, a plethora of new cryptocurrencies and other blockchain based systems have been deployed with different success. While some of them are slightly different copies of Bitcoin, other ones propose interesting improvements or new usages of the underlying blockchain technology. However, the novelty of such technologies is often tied with rapid developments and proof-of-concept software, and rigorous scientific analyses of the proposed systems are often skipped.

This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers in this area to carefully analyze current systems and propose new ones in order to create a scientific background for a solid development of new cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology systems.

Topics

The main topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Anonymity and privacy in cryptocurrencies
  • Privacy-preserving technologies
  • Cryptocurrency based trust systems
  • Security analysis of existing cryptocurrencies
  • Formal threat models in cryptocurrency systems
  • Improvement proposals for existing cryptocurrencies
  • Application and service cases of DLT and Smart-Contracts
  • P2P network cryptocurrencies analysis
  • Private transactions in blockchain based systems
  • New usages of the blockchain technology
  • Scalability solutions for blockchain systems
  • Blockchain-defined networking
  • Smart contracts
  • Distributed consensus and fault tolerance
  • Blockhain Protocols and algorithms
  • Transaction Monitoring and Analysis
  • Token Economy, finance and payments
  • Consensus mechanisms: proof-of-work, proof of stake, proof of burn, proof-of-useful-work
  • On-chain and off-chain code synergies
  • Oracles, DeFi, NFT dapps and protocols
  • Blockchain as a service

Program Commitee

PC Chairs:

Sergi Delgado-Segura - Chaincode Labs
Cristina Pérez-Solà - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

PC Members:

Lennart Ante - Blockchain Research Lab
Daniel Augot - INRIA Saclay
Alex Biryukov - University of Luxembourg
Mauro Conti - University of Padua
Vanesa Daza - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Victor Garcia - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Hannes Hartenstein - KIT
Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Jiasun Li - George Mason University
Shin'ichiro Matsuo - Virginia Tech and Georgetown University
Jose Luis Muñoz-Tapia - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Guillermo Navarro-Arribas - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Dongming Peng - University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Matteo Signorini - Nokia Bell Labs
Hitesh Tewari - Trinity College Dublin
Florian Tschorsch - Technische Universitat Berlin
Eirini Tsiropoulou - University of New Mexico
Dimitrios Vasilopoulos - IMDEA Software Institute

Call for papers

Regular and short papers: Papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts following the LNCS Proceedings Manuscript style. Papers are limited to 16 pages (full papers), or 8 pages (short papers) including references and appendices. Paper must be submitted in PDF format, using the CBT 2024 submission entry at easychair.

Double blind review: CBT requires anonymized submissions — please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references.

Accepted conference papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS collection. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to cover a full registration and present their work at the workshop; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings.

Venue

The workshop will be held in will be hosted by the Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Poland, in collaboration with the 29th annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2024. More information on accommodation and venue available from the ESORICS 2024 website at https://esorics2024.org/venue-en

Registration

Information about the registration is available at the ESORICS 2024 website.

Kindly use this link to register for the workshop (CBT 2024). Some important information follows:

Sponsors

With the collaboration of: