- ChainScience: Advances in Blockchain Science 2023 -

The inaugural ChainScience conference will be held from June 15-17 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

For further details about ChainScience, please visit the conference website: chainscience.org

- Call for Contributions -

ChainScience brings together researchers, practitioners and industry experts across disciplines to discuss novel developments in the domains of blockchains, distributed ledger technologies, and related decentralized technologies. As such, computer scientists, security researchers, economists, and data scientists are the primary target of this conference. In structure, ChainScience follows the traditional open format primarily based on submitted and peer-reviewed work.

ChainScience is calling for submissions in the following areas of interest:

* Blockchain Forensics
* Blockchain Interoperability
* Blockchain Macroeconomics
* Blockchain Modeling and Analytics
* Blockchain Oracles and Data Integration
* Computation over Encrypted Data
* Cryptoeconomics
* Design and Analysis of P2P Networks
* Formal Modeling of Tokenization
* Formal Proving Methods
* Governance and Voting Mechanisms
* Machine Learning for Blockchain
* Mechanisms of Distributed Consensus
* Novel Cryptographic Methods
* Novel Financial Instruments
* Preservation of Privacy
* Risk Analysis Methods for Blockchain
* Smart Contract Design and Security
* Statistics of Blockchain
* Useful Proof of Work


Other topics in distributed ledger technologies in the spirit of the above will also be considered.

Authors are invited to enter submissions describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process.

- Submission Instructions -

We invite submission of posters, short papers, and full papers. All submissions must use the Ledger LaTeX templates provided here. ChainScience uses a double-blinded review process; author names and affiliations should not appear in the submission, and authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities or institutional affiliation. Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines will be desk-rejected.


* For posters, please limit extended abstracts to no more than 2 pages; poster abstracts should include at least one figure.
* Short papers may include up to 6 pages, excluding references.
* Full papers may include up to 12 pages, excluding references and appendices. Appendices will not be considered as part of the review process.


Please submit all manuscripts at the submission link on the conference website.


Authors and Program Committee members are required to indicate any possible conflict of interest. Potential conflicts of interest include:
* Advisor-advisee relationships, at any time;
* Professional collaborations, employer/employee relationships, or co-authorship within the past 5 years;
* Current institutional conflicts;
* or close personal relationships.
For accepted manuscripts, at least one author must attend. For questions about content, formatting, or submission details, please contact the PC chairs: tpc@chainscience.org.


- Publication -

All accepted submissions will be published in post-conference proceedings.
* Proceedings will be made available via arXiv.
* Accepted papers will be indexed via DBLP.
* Selected full papers may be invited for submission to a special issue of the Ledger Journal.
* Full and short papers may be invited for submission to Frontiers in Blockchain.


- Important Dates (AoE) -

Submission Deadline:
May 1, 2023

Notification Deadline:
May 19, 2023

Camera-Ready Deadline:
June 12, 2023

Conference Dates:
June 15-17, 2023

- Organizing Committee -

Details forthcoming.