IJTCS Track B: Blockchain Theory and Technology

This track focuses on original studies on blockchains, cryptocurrencies and distributed financial markets. Papers may report the most recent developments on the theory, design, implementation, and analysis of blockchain infrastructure, economics, security, performance, interoperability, and other topics related to blockchains and distributed ledgers at large.

After the submission is accepted, the authors can select to publish a full paper or 1-page extended abstract in the proceeding.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Consensus protocols and scalability

• Smart contracts: design, analysis, security, attacks

• Distributed storage

• Automated market makers and exchanges

• Mechanism design for blockchains

• Equilibrium and game theoretic analysis for blockchains

• Transaction fees and tokenomics

• Network formation games, network structure and performance studies

• Mean field games, stochastic games, evolutionary games in blockchains

• Financial markets

• Information elicitation and oracles

• Token bridges and cross-chain solutions

• Security on blockchains: threat models, attacks, and solutions

• Privacy and anonymity, privacy-oriented computation

• Quantum-resilient cryptography and its applications in blockchains and financial markets

Program Chairs

• Man Ho Allen AU, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Program Committee

• Hubert Chan, University of Hong Kong, China

• Sisi Duan, Tsinghua University, China

• Tianren Liu, Peking University, China

• Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

• Yingjie Xue, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China

• Guomin Yang, Singapore Management University, Singapore