Blockchain Security and Smart Contract

Dear Colleagues,

Blockchain technology has become a core infrastructure driving digital transformation in both academia and industry, underpinning finance, supply chain, digital identity and decentralized applications. However, its rapid expansion brings severe security challenges: frequent smart contract vulnerabilities, consensus flaws, privacy leaks, cross-chain risks and lagging regulation threaten asset safety and ecosystem trust. This Special Issue of Information calls for high-quality original research and review papers covering blockchain security, smart contract verification, data security, privacy protection, dynamic supervision and vulnerability defense. It aims to gather frontier theoretical and practical achievements, bridge academic innovation and industrial application and provide solid theoretical support and technical references for the secure and sustainable development of the global blockchain industry.

Dr. Guohua Tian
Prof. Dr. Weizhi Meng
Dr. Biwen Chen
Guest Editors

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