COINS is the premier conference devoted to omni-layer techniques for smart IoT
systems, by identifying new perspectives and highlighting impending research issues
and challenges. The special track “Blockchain and Internet of Things” covers (but is not limited to) the following topics:

- Recent development in Blockchain research
- Recent development in IoT research
- New Blockchain consensus protocols, platforms and development tools
- Throughout, latency and performance issues in Blockchain based IoT systems
- System design and implementation methods for Blockchain based IoT systems
- Blockchain in IoT device identity management and assent tracking
- Blockchain in IoT supply chain management
- Blockchain applications in IoT data privacy and security
- Blockchain in peer-to-peer and M2M communications
- IoT assisted Blockchain applications
- Blockchain applications in banking, real estate, healthcare and energy system
- Blockchain in Smart home, smart building, smart city applications
- Blockchain and IoT courses, curriculum and instructional tools