Blockchain Technology has emerged as a popular platform in this decade for developing decentralized applications and data storage, over and beyond its role as a platform for cryptocurrencies. The basic tenet of this platform is that it allows one to create a distributed and replicated ledger of events, transactions, and data generated through various IT processes with strong cryptographic guarantees of tamper resistance, immutability, and verifiability. As a result, the promise of blockchain has captivated the imagination of philosophers, administrators, governments, businesses, academicians, economists, et. al alike. We are organizing a workshop on blockchain technologies to gather the researchers and practitioners of blockchain technologies from different backgrounds to present their previously unpublished works. We strongly encourage students and industry practitioners to make use of this opportunity to present their works and interact with the blockchain fraternity to validate their works. We solicit high quality contributions from the blockchain community in the form of full papers, posters and demo.

Topics of interest include (but not limited to):
- Cryptocurrency, Cryptoassets, Cryptoeconomics
- Theory: Scalability, Performance, Protocols, Verification
- Concurrency, Consensus mechanisms, Smart contracts
- DLT Applications: FinTech, Infrastructure, Agroeconomics, circular supply-chains, Healthcare, IoT/IoE, Vehicular networks, Automation, Smart cities etc.
- Security and Privacy, Identity, Authentication, Authorization models, Trust Management, Access Control
- Industry Experiences in the use of blockchains
- Case studies, Surveys, Insights, Positions

Accepted full papers after the review and presentation in the workshop will be included in the proceedings of IEEE UPCON 2022 in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. All accepted submissions: full papers and manuscripts accompanying posters and demos will be included and circulated as informal workshop proceedings.

Registration & presentation of the accepted paper/poster/demo during the workshop is mandatory. Papers may be presented in online mode as well in exceptional cases, however, posters and demo can be presented only in offline mode.

For more details, please visit the workshop website: https://blockchain.iiita.ac.in/