Scope

The section Blockchain Technologies will address developments within the systems, software, and architecture upon which the blockchain network is built.  It aims to promote and accelerate research towards creating a scaleable, verifiable and secure system within all areas of blockchain applications.

The scope of Blockchain Technologies includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

Verifiability

-       Distributed consensus

-       Software verification and validation

Security

-       Security coding

-       Network protocols

-       Cryptology

-       Identity, privacy and anonymity

Software development

-       Blockchain architecture

-       Distributed ledger technologies

-       Performance and scaleability

-       System architecture and virtual machines

-       Formal methods

-       DLT metrics

-       Non-blockchain DLTs (e.g. Hashgraph)

-       Smart Contracts

-       Distributed Autonomous Organisations

-       DLT and Artificial Intelligence

-       DLT and the Internet of Things

-       DApps, including decentralised exchanges, prediction markets, etc.

Papers can be either theoretical or empirical: in both cases, they must contain original content that advances the state of the art of blockchain technologies. We also welcome survey papers that compare existing approaches, or systematise the knowledge about a given topic.

Frontiers is delighted to announce a journal-wide prize of 10,000 USD, “Yun Family Frontiers in Blockchain Prize".  This prize is in collaboration with the Yun Family and associate entities, and will be awarded to the best paper published in 2019.

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