[Announcements] BRAINS 2025 - Call for Papers - 7th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services (November 18 - 21, 2025 - Zurich, Switzerland)

[Giovanni Farina]

7th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative
Networks and Services

BRAINS 2025

November 18 - 21, 2025

Zurich, Switzerland

(In-person conference)

https://brains.dnac.org/2025/

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Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2025

👉 Submissions Link:
<https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fedas.info%2FN33559&e=44afb75b&h=2d57c2b1&f=y&p=y>
https://edas.info/N33559

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

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   Theoretical contributions to Blockchain, DLT and decentralized storage


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   Distributed consensus and fault tolerance solutions, including
   domain-specific consensus


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   Protocols and algorithms


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   Distributed ledger analytics


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   Trade-offs between decentralization, scalability, performance, and
   security


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   Zero-Knowledge proofs


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   Layer 2 solutions for scalability and privacy


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   Blockchain interoperability and cross-chain mechanisms


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   Storage solutions and data availability
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   Obstacles to achieve effective decentralization
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   Adversarial attacks and participant’s strategic behaviour

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

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   Languages and tooling for dApp development


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   Security, privacy, and forensics


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   Transaction monitoring and analysis


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   Collaboration between on-chain and off-chain code


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   Token Economy, incentives, and protocols


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   Tokenization of Intangible, Real-world Assets


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   Blockchain-defined networking


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   Web3 and distributed storage and computation

Application and service cases of DLT and Smart contracts:

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   Blockchain and AI, federated and decentralized learning


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   Identity management


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   Finance, payments, and fraud detection and prevention


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   Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and payments


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   IoT and cyber-physical systems


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   Smart grids and Industry 4.0, including dataspaces


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   V2X, connected and autonomous vehicles


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   Networking, Edge, and Cloud technologies


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   Blockchain for Beyond 5G and 6G technologies


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   Service or resource marketplaces


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   Public sector Blockchain solutions and infrastructures


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   Results from large collaborative projects on these topics


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   Blockchain for education, public administration, health


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   Blockchain for Business Process and Supply Chain Management


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   Regulations and policies

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently
under review in any other conference or journal and has not been previously
published. All submissions should be written in English following the
Two-Column IEEE Conference Format, with a maximum of eight (8) pages (Full
Papers), four (4) pages (Short Papers and work in progress), or two (2)
pages (Poster Papers), including text, figures, and references. Papers
should be submitted through EDAS at: https://edas.info/N33559

Student Track

We encourage the submission of student papers (i.e., all authors of the
paper must be MSc or PhD students) on the topics mentioned in the CFP.
Student papers have to be clearly stated on the first page. The papers
should follow the same guidelines as short papers (max 4 pages) and be
submitted on the dedicated track for student papers.

Best paper awards

Two best paper awards will be delivered:

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   Best Full Paper Award


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   Best Student Paper Award

Important Dates:

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   Paper Submission deadline: June 15, 2025


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   Notification of Acceptance: September 11, 2025


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   Camera-Ready: September 22, 2025

TPC Chairs

Quentin Bramas (University of Strasbourg, France)

Sheng-Nan Li (UZH BCC, Switzerland)

Philip Raschke (TU Berlin, Germany )

Marcus Völp (CritiX Lab, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability
and Trust, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

General Chairs:

Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Innovation, France)

Claudio J. Tessone (UZH BCC, Switzerland)

Looking forward to your submissions!
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