The workshop will be held In Conjunction with the 8th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2025)
Blockchain is one of the disruptive technologies of the current era, which enables trustworthy transaction processing through the participation of distributed nodes. The widespread adoption of blockchain has been facilitated by research on blockchain beyond cryptocurrencies, where significant efforts have been made to devise different business models, its applicability in various domains and to optimise its adaptability for different applications. Being the most notable blockchain-based application, the success of Bitcoin has introduced an innovative model of decentralised, trustworthy application development across diverse domains such as healthcare, e-voting logistics, and finance. structure among transactions, as well as public availability of distributed ledgers of transaction records in a peer-to-peer network. The increasing use of blockchain within diverse domains has also identified several challenges which have to be addressed for its widespread adoption. Among these, security and scalability are the most prominent challenges which require further research efforts to address them. For instance, attack vectors such as encryption schemes used in the transactions, methods for verifying transactions and the design of the transaction have been identified as sources of threats for blockchain-based applications. Furthermore, with growing applications and users for blockchain-based applications, scalability is a critical challenge and as such has been translated into parameters such as transactions per second, block generation rate, and block size.
Paper can be submitted Via EDAS, and instructions can be found at the following link: https://ieee-cybermatics.org/2025/blockchain/
We invite submissions from researchers and practitioners from government, industry, and academia in the following and related areas:
Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies
Proof-of-work and consensus algorithms for blockchains
Decentralisation, scalability, and security trade-off
Simulation and performance evaluation techniques
Secure smart contract and chain code
Trust and reputation within blockchain-based systems
Blockchain-based solutions to aid cutting-edge in AI and machine learning
Analysis and evaluation of security, scalability, and other performance metrics of blockchains
Authentication and authorisation solutions within blockchains
Blockchain-based solutions for emerging domains such as 5G, edge computing, and SDNs
Applications of blockchains within e-government, logistics, healthcare, SmartX systems and other areas
Important Dates
Paper Submission: August 30, 2025 (Extended)
Paper acceptance Notification: September 15, 2025
Camera-ready and Registration: September 30, 2025
Workshop: October 30- November 02, 2025
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to:
ACM Journal on Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice