Advanced Blockchain Architectures: Cryptographic Privacy and Cybersecurity Mechanisms
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 23
Special Issue Editors
Interests: blockchain security and privacy; cybersecurity; applied cryptography
Interests: data security; cryptography; security and privacy preservation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid advancement of blockchain technology has spurred the development of increasingly sophisticated architectures designed to meet the growing demands of privacy, security, scalability, and interoperability in decentralized environments. With the proliferation of blockchain applications across sectors such as finance, healthcare, logistics, and IoT, ensuring cryptographic privacy and robust cybersecurity mechanisms has become a critical challenge. Modern blockchain systems must not only support transparent and tamper-resistant records but also incorporate advanced cryptographic tools to protect user identity, transactional data, and smart contract logic. Additionally, as blockchain networks scale and become interconnected, secure consensus, cross-chain communication, and resistance to emerging cyber threats are key to ensuring trust and performance.
In this regard, cryptographic protocols, privacy-enhancing technologies, consensus mechanisms, and secure multi-party computation techniques form the technical foundation of next-generation blockchain architectures. This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality papers exploring novel frameworks and security mechanisms that advance the theoretical and practical capabilities of blockchain systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Blockchain architecture for privacy and security;
- Privacy-enhancing technologies in blockchain;
- Decentralized identity and privacy-preserving authentication;
- Blockchain-based access control and secure data sharing and data trading;
- Smart contract security and vulnerability detection;
- Post-quantum cryptography for blockchain;
- Secure consensus protocols;
- Cross-chain protocols and interoperability with security guarantees;
- Adversarial modeling, attack detection, and mitigation in blockchain networks;
- Integration of blockchain with AI, IoT, and edge computing.
Dr. Liang Xue
Dr. Yannan Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- blockchain
- security and privacy
- cybersecurity
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