Scope

The 7th IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (IEEE DAPPS 2025) aims to bring together researchers and industry professionals working on decentralized applications (dApps), Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies. The event is part of the larger IEEE CISOSE 2025 congress and focuses on the practical and theoretical advancements in decentralized systems.

While Blockchain is well-known for its role in digital payments and cryptocurrencies, its broader potential lies in creating decentralized applications (dApps) that can revolutionize various industries across domains such as supply chains, certificate management, and data sovereignty. dApps provide secure, transparent, and tamper-resistant solutions for peer-to-peer transactions, eliminating the need for a trusted central authority.

IEEE DAPPS 2025 will focus on key topics such as decentralized algorithms, infrastructure, and real-world deployments. The conference will offer a platform to discuss innovations, challenges, and future directions in the development and use of dApps across industries.

The conference organizers are currently undergoing an approval process for a journal special issue on the conference topic, thus creating an opportunity for publishing an extended version of the conference papers.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs)
    Smart contracts theory and programming
    Languages and tools for (secure) dApps
    Web3 security and privacy
    AI for dApps
    Machine learning for dApps
    Infrastructures for dApps
    Communication protocols and standards for dApps
    Software engineering for dApps and smart contracts verification
    Privacy of dApps
    Security of dApps
    Decentralized identity
    Identity management for dApps
    Token economy
    Off-Chain/Layer 2 dApps
    Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
    Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
    Applied Cryptography for dApps applications
    Analytics for on-chain and off-chain data
    Governance structure and mechanisms
    Policy/laws surrounding dApps and cryptocurrencies
    Interoperability for dApps, Blockchains, and DLTs
    Scalability, optimization, and performance of blockchain systems
    DePIN Decentralized Physical Infrastructure
    RWA Real Word Assets
    dApps sustainability
    dApps for Digital Sovereignty
    Cross-chain and Off-chain technology
    Forensics for dApps
    Applications in emerging domains
    Other emerging research topics