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Emerging Topics in Blockchain Security and Privacy

This special issue belongs to the section “Blockchain Security“.

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Blockchain technologies have been used in various fields and, thus, security and privacy are of great 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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Keywords

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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