Past Highlights

We welcome high-quality submissions in the field of blockchain that present innovative ideas, explore emerging challenges, consolidate existing knowledge, or demonstrate early-stage but impactful directions.

Submission site 

TBC

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Blockchain Protocols and Consensus
   • Design and analysis of consensus mechanisms
   • Byzantine fault tolerance and distributed coordination
   • Network performance scalability latency and throughput

      

2. Cryptoeconomics and System Design
   • Tokenomics staking and incentive mechanisms
   • MEV mitigation and protocol sustainability
   • Decentralized governance

      

3. Cryptography and Security Foundations
   • Cryptographic primitives for blockchain systems
   • Zero knowledge proofs and privacy preserving techniques
   • Formal security models and provable guarantees

      

4. Smart Contracts Programming and Formal Methods
   • Languages and frameworks for smart contracts
   • Formal verification and program correctness
   • Static dynamic analysis and runtime monitoring

      

5. Scalability Infrastructure and Storage
   • Layer 1 and Layer 2 scaling architectures
   • State storage data availability and snapshotting
   • Cross chain bridges and decentralized oracle networks

      

6. Privacy Security and Trusted Computing
   • Confidential transactions and privacy preserving protocols
   • Compliance aware privacy and data protection frameworks
   • Security vulnerabilities and attack vectors in blockchain systems
   • Threat modeling auditing and formal analysis of protocol security

      

7. Blockchain and AI
   • Decentralized and federated AI computation
   • Verifiable and privacy preserving machine learning
   • Tokenized models AI driven governance and data integrity

      

8. Blockchain Based Applications

• Decentralized finance DeFi and real world asset tokenization
• Supply chain identity and data provenance systems
• Web3 infrastructure and decentralized service platforms

Submission Types

Submissions must be of one of the following types, and the recommended page length is in parenthesis:

• Original research papers (between 8 and 25 pages): These submissions present original and unpublished research results. Papers should make novel technical contributions and be supported by theoretical analysis, system design, or experimental evaluation. Submissions will be peer-reviewed based on originality, significance, technical quality, and clarity.
• Practitioner reports or case studies (up to 8 pages): These papers describe real-world implementations, deployment experiences, or engineering insights from blockchain projects. Submissions should focus on practical challenges, design trade-offs, performance outcomes, and lessons learned. This track is ideal for developers, system builders, and industry practitioners. 
• Literature review / survey papers (up to 25 pages): Survey papers provide a comprehensive overview of a specific area within blockchain and related fields. Submissions should systematically analyze existing literature, categorize research trends, identify challenges, and propose future directions. Surveys must be well-structured and insightful, going beyond simple aggregation of prior work. 

Note: Submissions focused on cryptocurrency price trends, investment strategies, or legal/regulatory issues are outside the scope of the conference. All papers should emphasize technical or scientific contributions, such as blockchain protocols, cryptography, distributed systems, secure computing, and crypto-economics.

 Publication

NBC is a non-archival conference and does not publish formal proceedings. However, selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies. Further details regarding this opportunity, including submission guidelines and timelines, will be provided after the acceptance notifications.

 Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: April 20, 2026, 11:59pm AoE

• Final acceptance notification: May 30, 2026

• Conference: Aug. 21-22, 2026

Submission Guidelines

1. Please submit your paper via the designated submission site (TBC) in Portable Document Format (.pdf).
2. All submissions must be written in English and formatted using the ACM standard templates (for Microsoft Word or LaTeX), available at: http://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions.
3. Authors must select the appropriate submission type during the submission process. The expected page limits for each category are: 
   • Original research papers (between 8 and 25 pages)
   • Practitioner reports or case studies (up to 8 pages)
   • Literature review / survey papers (up to 25 pages)
4. Authors are encouraged to include a link to code or data (e.g., GitHub) in the submission form. While optional, such materials may positively impact the review.
5. This conference does not require anonymized submissions. Author names, affiliations, and acknowledgments may be included in the submitted manuscript.