Blockchain is a unique technology and a fundamental concept of computer science. Moreover, Blockchain has proven itself to be instrumental for many applications, ranging from financial to governmental services. In many ways, this transformed applications and development to rethinking the how information is distributed and processed over its infrastructure. While the majority of these applications are in the financial domain, key opportunities lie in connecting infrastructural services, such as Cloud, Fog and Edge computing with blockchain to create and provide new applications and services.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in distributed systems, cryptography, and security from both academia and industry, who are interested in the technology and theory of blockchains and their protocols. The workshop will provide the international research community with a venue to discuss and present the requirements of blockchain fundamentals and applications and to bring forward new designs that meet new requirements. We encourage contributions that analyze a large variety of blockchain applications from a network, storage and computational perspective to understand how they may take full advantage. The program will consist of submitted papers and one or more invited speakers presenting recent results in the area of blockchains.
Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

Full papers describing emerging work on the topics below.

List of Topics

Blockchain solutions for management of virtualized and containerized system
Consensus models and protocols
Trusted execution for improved resilience of decentralized infrastructures
Performance and security smart contracts
Off-chain communications such as hash time-locked contracts
Deployment of virtual infrastructure
Governance of distributed ledgers
Scalability of distributed ledgers
Scalability and scalable services for blockchain systems
Multi tenant models
Cross-chain protocols
Analysis and evaluating of Blockchain applications, networks and infrastructures
Experience reports