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7th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services

BRAINS 2025

November 18 - 21, 2025
Zurich, Switzerland
(In-person conference)

https://brains.dnac.org/2025/

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Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2025

👉 Submissions Link: https://edas.info/N33559


Decentralized technologies (Web3, Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technologies, IPFS) have started to disrupt multiple domains, including finance and payments but also networks, computing, supply chain, identity management or Artificial Intelligence with decentralized learning.
BRAINS conference is dedicated to these advances that could make the world of networks and services more secure while enabling new distributed business models.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Effective challenges for decentralized systems

• Theoretical contributions to Blockchain, DLT and decentralized storage
• Distributed consensus and fault tolerance solutions, including domain-specific consensus
• Protocols and algorithms
• Distributed ledger analytics
• Trade-offs between decentralization, scalability, performance, and security
• Zero-Knowledge proofs
• Layer 2 solutions for scalability and privacy
• Blockchain interoperability and cross-chain mechanisms
• Storage solutions and data availability
• Obstacles to achieve effective decentralization
• Adversarial attacks and participant’s strategic behaviour


Fundamentals of Decentralized Apps, Smart contracts, and chain code:
• Languages and tooling for dApp development
• Security, privacy, and forensics 
• Transaction monitoring and analysis
• Collaboration between on-chain and off-chain code
• Token Economy, incentives, and protocols
• Tokenization of Intangible, Real-world Assets
• Blockchain-defined networking
• Web3 and distributed storage and computation

Application and service cases of DLT and Smart contracts:
• Blockchain and AI, federated and decentralized learning
• Identity management
• Finance, payments, and fraud detection and prevention
• Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and payments
• IoT and cyber-physical systems
• Smart grids and Industry 4.0, including dataspaces
• V2X, connected and autonomous vehicles
• Networking, Edge, and Cloud technologies
• Blockchain for Beyond 5G and 6G technologies
• Service or resource marketplaces
• Public sector Blockchain solutions and infrastructures
• Results from large collaborative projects on these topics
• Blockchain for education, public administration, health
• Blockchain for Business Process and Supply Chain Management
• Regulations and policies

 
Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal and has not been previously published. All submissions should be written in English following the Two-Column IEEE Conference Format, with a maximum of eight (8) pages (Full Papers), four (4) pages (Short Papers and work in progress), or two (2) pages (Poster Papers), including text, figures, and references. Papers should be submitted through EDAS at: https://edas.info/N33559


Student Track
We encourage the submission of student papers (i.e., all authors of the paper must be MSc or PhD students) on the topics mentioned in the CFP. Student papers have to be clearly stated on the first page. The papers should follow the same guidelines as short papers (max 4 pages) and be submitted on the dedicated track for student papers.
Best paper awards

Two best paper awards will be delivered:
• Best Full Paper Award
• Best Student Paper Award
Important Dates:
• Paper Submission deadline: June 15, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: September 11, 2025
• Camera-Ready: September 22, 2025

TPC Chairs

Quentin Bramas (University of Strasbourg, France)
Sheng-Nan Li (UZH BCC, Switzerland)
Philip Raschke (TU Berlin, Germany )
Marcus Völp (CritiX Lab, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)


General Chairs:

Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Innovation, France)
Claudio J. Tessone (UZH BCC, Switzerland)


Details: https://brains.dnac.org/2025/

Looking forward to your submissions!