Recent Trends in Blockchain and Its Applications

Dear Colleagues

Blockchain technology and its applications have significantly progressed since the introduction of Bitcoin in 2008. Today, innovators in various fields have realized the advantages of blockchain. From medicine to finance, many sectors are now looking for ways to integrate blockchain into their infrastructures and technologies. This Special Issue aims to gather high-quality scientific articles on the theoretical and practical aspects of blockchain technologies in the following areas:

• Blockchain applications (finance, medical, global warming, and climate chain, security, lending, insurance, money transfer, real estate, voting, logistics, supply chains, IoT, energy, gaming, etc.);
• Blockchain technology;
• Blockchain and AI;
• Blockchain and big data;
• Blockchain and data mining;
• Public blockchain and its applications;
• Private blockchain and its applications;
• Blockchain security and testing.

Dr. Hossein Hassani
Dr. Nadejda Komendantova
Topic Editors