Decentralized technologies (Web3, Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technologies, IPFS) have started to disrupt multiple domains, including finance and payments but also networks, computing, supply chain, identity management or Artificial Intelligence with decentralized learning.

BRAINS conference is dedicated to these advances that could make the world of networks and services more secure while enabling new distributed business models.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Effective challenges for decentralized systems

    Theoretical contributions to Blockchain, DLT and decentralized storage
    Distributed consensus and fault tolerance solutions, including domain-specific consensus
    Protocols and algorithms
    Distributed ledger analytics
    Trade-offs between decentralization, scalability, performance, and security
    Zero-Knowledge proofs
    Layer 2 solutions for scalability and privacy
    Blockchain interoperability and cross-chain mechanisms
    Storage solutions and data availability
    Obstacles to achieve effective decentralization
    Adversarial attacks and participant’s strategic behaviour

Fundamentals of Decentralized Apps, Smart contracts, and chain code:

    Languages and tooling for dApp development
    Security, privacy, and forensics 
    Transaction monitoring and analysis
    Collaboration between on-chain and off-chain code
    Token Economy, incentives, and protocols
    Tokenization of Intangible, Real-world Assets
    Blockchain-defined networking
    Web3 and distributed storage and computation

Application and service cases of DLT and Smart contracts:

    Blockchain and AI, federated and decentralized learning
    Identity management
    Finance, payments, and fraud detection and prevention
    Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and payments
    IoT and cyber-physical systems
    Smart grids and Industry 4.0, including dataspaces
    V2X, connected and autonomous vehicles
    Networking, Edge, and Cloud technologies
    Blockchain for Beyond 5G and 6G technologies
    Service or resource marketplaces
    Public sector Blockchain solutions and infrastructures
    Blockchain for education, public administration, health
    Results from large collaborative projects on these topics
    Blockchain for education, public administration, health
    Blockchain for Business Process and Supply Chain Management
    Regulations and policies