DLT 2023 — 5th Distributed Ledger Technology Workshop

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is having an ever growing popularity. The first applications of DLT concern cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero, etc.), but the DLT disruptive features enable several applications in many scenarios of interest both in research and business contexts. In particular, the possibility of executing Smart Contracts makes the DLT technology suitable to be adopted in a large number of application fields, being Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, Edge Computing, and Supply Chain Management, only some examples. At the same time, the adoption of DLT opens new challenges in terms of privacy, security, scalability, sustainability and decentralization.

This workshop is a forum for researchers, developers, and users to discuss issues related to Distributed Ledger Technology and its adoption in research and business scenarios. The primary goal is to foster discussion and cross-fertilisation of ideas among experts in different fields related to DLTs, and thus advance the national and international state-of-the-art. Research, applications, case studies, and experiences concerning DLT are all encouraged with a special focus on the privacy and security issues.

Topics: Blockchain foundations, Consensus protocols, Cryptography for blockchains, Privacy and anonymity on blockchains and their applications, Attacks to/through smart contracts, Formal verification of blockchain protocols and smart contracts, Scalability of blockchains and their applications, Lightweight protocols based on blockchains, Smart contracts and their applications, Decentralized finance, Transactions analysis, Energy consumption issues, Applications of blockchain technology, Decentralization and governance in DLT, Non-fungible tokens, Oracles, bridges and interoperability of blockchains, Game theory and blockchains