Submission Deadline: 31 August 2022 (closed) View: 149
Blockchain technology enables decentralized
credible information access, leading to the evolution of economic, intellectual
property protection, electronic government system, logistics, and huge amount
of investment. For the further development and potential investors, there exist
super chance together with super risk, because: 1) the current blockchain
technology has limitations on the storage capability, low consensus efficiency,
smart contract vulnerabilities, high transaction fee, and etc.; and 2) the
ecosystem of the blockchain based applications is fast evolving with growing
complexity, especially when it comes to the cross-chain scenario. To provide a
stable and efficient running environment, IPFS and swarm are proposed to
conduct efficient off-chain storage; PoRep and PosT are proposed to provide
less energy-draining consensus methods; smart contract based fuzz systems are
proposed to ensure the security of smart contract before deployment; and layer-2
blockchain is proposed to reduce transaction fees. However, the future trend of
blockchain architecture is still an open problem. To understand the potential
risk and transaction behaviors of the current dapp ecosystem, modeling based on
the dapp transaction data turns out to be a hot topic.
This special issue aims at collecting the recent results from both research and industrial community on blockchain technologies.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
• Cryptography and key management technology for blockchain
• Distributed storage system for blockchain
• Energy-efficient consensus algorithm
• Scalable consensus algorithm for consortium blockchain
• Decentralized oracle machine for blockchain
• Smart contract security solutions for blockchain
• Privacy protection schemes for blockchain
• Sharding and cross-chain protocols for blockchain
• Blockchain layer-2 technology
• Algorithms and solutions for stable coins
• Attacking and defense of Defi
• Data modeling for Dapp ecosystem
• Transaction behavior monitoring for Dapp ecosystem
• Blockchain based application solutions