Enhancing Security of New Generation Blockchain Ecosystems
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2023) | Viewed by 510
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cybersecurity; blockchain; distributed system; IoT
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit your valuable contributions to this Special Issue aimed at enhancing the security of new-generation blockchain ecosystems.
Over the last few years, blockchain has emerged as a prominent technology that is able to provide strong security guarantees, especially immutability and availability, in decentralized trust-less networks. Many sectors are open to blockchain-based solutions: the financial area is experiencing an explosion of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have become the new frontier of the artwork market, and Decentralized Exchange (DEX) and Cross-Chain platforms are becoming two important building blocks of the cryptocurrency exchange world. After Bitcoin and Ethereum emerged, many blockchain ecosystems also emerged, but their quick employment made it challenging to understand and properly analyze their security. Indeed, recently, we are observing several hacks against such blockchain technologies, which is a big paradox considering that blockchain arose as a decentralized solution strongly resistant to cyber attacks.
The intention of this Special Issue is to shed light on the security of blockchain ecosystems; therefore, we invite authors to exchange research results about (but not limited to) security issues and security gaps of blockchain platforms and their applications. A non-comprehensive list of possible contributions includes:
- Security of consensus protocols;
- Security of smart contracts;
- Security of cross-chain protocols;
- Security of layer-2 blockchain;
- DeFi security issues;
- Security of blockchain for IoT;
- Auditing solutions for blockchain;
- Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing of blockchain and smart contracts;
- Enforcing wallet security;
- Quantum-resistant blockchain.
Dr. Federico Lombardi
Dr. Silvia Bonomi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- blockchain security
- consensus protocols
- cross-chain protocols
- DeFi
- layer-2 blockchain
- VA/PT
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