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:
Pantaleone Nespoli - University of Murcia
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro - Institut Polytechnique de Paris
PC Members:
Lennart Ante - Blockchain Research Lab
Daniel Augot - INRIA Saclay
Artem Barger - IBM Research
Alex Biryukov - University of Luxembourg
Rainer Boehme - University of Innsbruck
James Chiang - Technical University of Denmark
Jeremy Clark - Concordia University
Mauro Conti - University of Padua
Vanesa Daza - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Nour El-Madhoun - EPITA Engineering School
Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui - EURECOM
Joshua Ellul - University of Malta
Paula Fraga - University of A Coruna
Victor Garcia - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Hannes Hartenstein - KIT
Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Jiasun Li - George Mason University
Xiapu Luo - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Shin'ichiro Matsuo - Georgetown University
Darya Melnyk - Aalto University
Jose Luis Muñoz-Tapia - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Guillermo Navarro-Arribas - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Dongming Peng - University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Cristina Pérez-Solà - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Motoyoshi Sekiya - Fujitsu Limited
Weidong Shi - University of Houston
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
Edgar Weippl - SBA Research
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 2023
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.
Please contact cbt2023@easychair.org in case of doubts and questions.
Venue
The workshop will be held in will be hosted by The Hague Conference Centre, The Netherlands, in collaboration with the 28th annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2023. More information on accommodation and venue available from the ESORICS 2023 website at https://esorics2023.org/attend/venue/
Please contact cbt2023@easychair.org in case of doubts and questions.