The 7th International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN'25) will be held in University of Lille (France) from 25th-27th June, 2025. This annual congress will bring together researchers and practitioners of blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies (DLT), who will share ideas, projects, lectures, and advances associated with those technologies and their application domains. This meeting will be co-located with the PAAMS'25 conference.

Among the scientific community, the advance in next-generation blockchain and distributed ledger technologies is seen as a promising combination that will transform the production and manufacturing industry, media, finance, insurance, e-government, agriculture, energy, or even medicine. Besides, the combination of DLT with other cutting-edge disruptive technologies (AI, metaverse, quantum computing...) will open up a multitude of amazing opportunities that entail an interesting challenge of research at the same time.

The BLOCKCHAIN'25 congress is devoted to: promoting the investigation of next-generation blockchain and DLT technologies; exploring the latest ideas, innovations, guidelines, theories, models, technologies, applications and tools of blockchain/DLT combined with other cutting-edge technologies; and identifying critical issues and challenges that researchers and practitioners must deal with in future research. We want to offer researchers and practitioners the opportunity to work on promising lines of research and to publish their developments in this area.


Proceedings of previous editions are available:

https://link.springer.com/conference/blockchain

Springer

General deadlines

  • Deadline

    7th March, 2025

  • Workshop deadline

    14th March, 2025

  • Doctoral Consortium deadline

    21st March, 2025

  • Notification of acceptance

    25th April, 2025

  • Camera-Ready papers

    9th May, 2025

  • Conference Celebration

    25th-27th June, 2025

Accommodation grants

CRIStAL Lab (www.cristal.univ-lille.fr) offers 20 grants/awards to doctoral and young doctors.

Special Issues

Authors of selected papers from BLOCKCHAIN will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issues in different journals:

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in the International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (ISSN: 1989 - 1660, JCR (2023): 3,4 (Q2))

Special Issue published in Logic Journal of the IGPL. (ISSN 1368-9894, JCR 2023: 0.6 (Q2))

Authors of selected papers from BLOCKCHAIN and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in ADCAIJ (ISSN: 2255-2863, JCR (2023): 1.7, Q3)) indexed in DOAJ, ProQuest, Scholar, WorldCat, Dialnet, Sherpa ROMEO, Dulcinea, UlrichWeb, Emerging Sources Citation Index of Thomson Reuters, BASE y Academic Journals Database.

Special Issue on the Journal Future Internet: “Deep Learning in Recommender Systems” published in MDPI Future Internet Journal (ISSN: 1999-5903, JCR (2023): 2.8 (Q2))

To Be Updated

BLOCKCHAIN'24 awards

Best paper

"Blockchain-assisted Device as a Service (DaaS)" by Maria Tavares, Rui Mendonça, Diogo Meneses, André Santos, and António Pinto

Best paper application

"Evaluating Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms: A Comprehensive Three-Tiered Approach with Application to IOTA 2.0" by Bing-Yan Lin, Sebastian Mueller, Luigi Vigneri, and Ching-Hua Lin

MDPI Smart Cities Best Paper Awards

2024 Smart Cities
MDPI Best Speakers

MDPI Smart Cities Best Speaker Award

Lambert Schmidt. "Development and evaluation of a framework for the design and management of blockchain-based process chains in a circular economy” by Lambert Schmidt, and Marc Jansen

MDPI Smart Cities Best Student Speaker Award

Adam Novocký. "Assigning Monetary Value to Data for Optimizing Decentralized Storage" by Adam Novocký, Kristián Koštál, and Michal Ries

2024 Electronics
MDPI Best papers

"Electrical current anomaly detection in small wind turbine power generation" by Antonio Díaz-Longueira, Paula Arcano-Bea, Míriam Timiraos, Álvaro Michelena, Julia Fernández, and José Luis Calvo-Rolle

"Genetic algorithm for preventive planning of Product-as-a-Service offers" by Krzysztof Niemiec, Eryk Szwarc, Grzegorz Bocewicz, and Zbigniew Banaszak

"A ROS-Based Federated Learning Framework for Decentralized Machine Learning in Robotic Applications" by Gerardo Gutierrez, Jaime Andres Arango, and Vicente Julian

"Computational Cost Reduction For MobileViT With Token Merging" by Mitsuhiko Yasukura, Michifumi Yoshioka, and Katsufumi Inoue

MDPI Electronics Best Paper Awards
MDPI Systems Best Paper Awards

2024 Systems
MDPI Best papers

First Award: "Measuring the effect of wind direction on air pollution: a statistical nonparametric approach" by Di Marzio Marco, Stefania Fensore, and Chiara Passamonti

Second Award: "Design of a Proactive System to Promote Healthy Behaviors in the Elderly Population" by Vítor Crista, Diogo Martinho, and Goreti Marreiros

Third Award: "Dynamic estimation of customer movement by agent-based simulation with particle filter" by Ryo Murata, and Kenji Tanaka