Recent rapid development of blockchain has attracted a giant attention by both academia and the industry. Migrating a centralized computing to decentralized computing seems to be a main stream to establish a trust and secure storage and trading environment. However, it is actually too early to make a solid statement about the adoption of blockchain technology, since there are many unsolved problems in the field. The success of blockchain technique in Bitcoin does not mean the technique can be successfully deployed in all domains. This international conference aims to gather most updated papers in the field of blockchain and provides a platform for both scholars and practitioners.

The scope of SmartBlock conference involves a broad range related to blockchain realms, from privacy-preserving solutions to designing advanced blockchain mechanism, from empirical studies to practical manuuals. All high quality updated work is highly welcomed. smartblock 2020 will be held in Zhengzhou, Henan, China and its conference proceedings publisher is Springer.

Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

    Blockchain theory
    Legal, ethical and societal aspects of blockchain
    Blockchain application in social networking
    Smart contract and distributed ledger
    P2P network analysis for blockchain
    Blockchain-enabled cloud/edge computing
    Blockchain-enabled services
    Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
    Permissioned and permissionless blockchains
    Privacy and anonymity-enhancing techniques in blockchain
    Security, privacy and trust of blockchain
    Blockchain performance optimization
    Cryptocurrency adoption and economic impacts in blockchain
    Lightweight protocols and algorithms of blockchain
    Forensics and monitoring in blockchain
    Blockchain based lightweight data structures for IoT data
    Blockchain based IoT security and privacy
    Blockchain in cyber physical systems
    Attacks on blockchain based systems
    Bolckchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing
    Fraud detection and financial crime prevention in blockchain
    Trust management in blockchain
    Smart Blockchain and token economy
    Smart Blockchain and applications
    Smart Blockchain and digital economy