Korea Blockchain Conference 2026 (KCBC2026)

Call for Papers

Korea Blockchain Conference 2026 (KCBC2026) invites students, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers on blockchain technologies and emerging applications of blockchain in artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, identity, trust, payments, and governance.

KCBC2026 aims to provide an academic forum for discussing recent research trends, practical applications, and future directions in blockchain-based systems. In particular, this conference focuses on the convergence of blockchain and agentic AI systems, including secure identity verification, autonomous transactions, decentralized trust, and policy-based control of agent actions.

Topics of Interest



Identity, Trust, and Security

Identity verification for agentic systems

Inter-agent authentication and attestation

Decentralized Public Key Infrastructure (DPKI)

Public Key Infrastructure for agentic systems

Security for autonomous agents

Trust and credentialing in multi-agent environments

Blockchain-based identity management

Verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers

Trust establishment among human users, agents, and organizations

Economy, Payments, and Transactions

Agentic economy

Agentic payments

Payments for autonomous agents

Autonomous agent transactions

Human-delegated transactions

Transactions conducted by agents on behalf of humans

Machine customers

Autonomous customer agents

Customer bots

Smart contracts for autonomous economic activities

Secure settlement and transaction verification

Accountability and auditability of agent-driven transactions

Governance, Approval, and Control

Agentic action approval

Approval of agentic actions

Authorization of autonomous agent actions

Human-in-the-loop approval for autonomous agents

Transaction authorization for agentic systems

Policy-based control of autonomous agent actions

Governance models for autonomous agents

Access control for AI-driven systems

Compliance and accountability in agentic environments

AI and Blockchain Convergence

Convergence of AI and blockchain

AI-blockchain integration

Blockchain-based infrastructure for agentic systems

Decentralized trust for autonomous agents

Secure agent economies enabled by blockchain

Blockchain for trustworthy AI systems

AI-assisted blockchain security

Blockchain-based audit trails for AI decisions

Smart contracts for AI service coordination

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: July 21, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: July 28, 2026
Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: August 4, 2026

Submission Site

Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system for KCBC2026.

Contact

Jungwon Seo
jungwonrs@jbnu.ac.kr