Emerging Topics in Blockchain Security and Privacy II

Dear Colleagues,

Blockchain technologies have been used in various fields, and thus, security and privacy are importance. This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for researchers to publish high-quality and original research papers presenting the recent development and state-of-the-art solutions for addressing various security and privacy issues in blockchain. The Special Issue welcomes contributions from theory to practice and from many research fields, such as cryptography, network, distributed systems, and economics.

Dr. Kentaroh Toyoda
Guest Editor

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• vulnerabilities, attacks, and defenses of blockchain
• distributed consensus and fault tolerance algorithms for blockchain
• security of smart contracts
• secure off-chain computation techniques
• blockchain-enabled secure applications
• security and privacy on decentralized finance (DeFi)
• scalable privacy-preserving techniques for blockchain
• secure and privacy-preserving distributed database technologies
• privacy-preserving distributed data mining on blockchain
• transaction monitoring and analysis for forensics
• anonymity and criminal activities of the cryptocurrency
• regulations & policies in cryptocurrency
• secure and privacy-preserving design of key management (e.g., private key management for digital wallets and exchange)
• distributed trust and reputation
• design of decentralized identifiers
• design of economic mechanisms for blockchain

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