About the Event

Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are now topics of substantial impact that society needs to contemplate, exploit and adopt.

The Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference (B2C' 2023) aims to provide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers, and students from both the industry and the academia to present their latest research findings, advances and innovations on blockchain technologies as well as to helps decision-makers, technologists, and developers understand the value of blockchain to their businesses regardless of industry.

It will feature keynotes, tutorials, peer-reviewed technical paper presentations, posters, demos and exhibitions from world-leading companies, startups, solution vendors, research institutes, open-source projects, and academia. The congress will be also the forum for exchange of the latest innovation results, regulations, policies, standards, and applications in this exciting and challenging area.

Unlike existing, narrowly focused technical conferences and commercial trade events, the congress will cover all technical and social aspects of blockchain and cryptocurrency. In addition, startups, working in this area will be able to present their pitch decks to investors during the event.


List of Topics

* Blockchain theories, applications and their evolution
* Blockchain based protocols and algorithms
* Smart contracts and distributed ledgers
* Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
* Performance optimization of blockchain and decentralized schemes
* Integration of blockchain with other emerging technologies
* Peer-to-peer networks
* Cryptography techniques
* Security and privacy surrounding blockchain technology
* Cryptocurrency
* Cryptocurrency protocols and adoption
* Digital currencies
* Exchanges, trading and mining
* Financial analysis and risk management with cryptocurrencies
* FinTech and DeFi
* NFT
* Web 3.0
​* Metaverses
* Fraud detection and financial crime prevention
* Legal, ethical and societal aspects of blockchain and cryptocurrencies
* Regulation and law enforcement of blockchain technology
* New business model
* Case studies (e.g., of adoption, attacks, forks, scams, regulations, policies,
standards …)
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Special Sessions:

Authors are welcome to organize and manage special sessions during the conference. Each session should contains 4-6 papers in a related field as specified above or proposed by a session organizer.

Session organizers will get:

* Certificate of Appreciation
* Free Registration for the Event
* Free book chapter publication in the ‘Advances in Blockchain & Cryptocurrency’, Open Access Book Series, Vol. 1, which will be published by IFSA Publishing, S.L. (Barcelona, Spain) in 2023.


Types of Presentation:

* Regular papers
* Posters
* Special sessions papers
* Keynote presentations
* Invited talks
* Industrial presentations
* Virtual Presentation io demand


One Event - three different publications !

1) All registered abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings (USB flash memory card edition of published Proceedings with the ISBN), distributed during the conference and submitted for indexing to the Web of Science.

Startups' Pitch Decks (slides) will be published in the B2C' 2023 Pitch Book and distributed among registered investors before the Conference and potential investors after the event.

2) Authors will be invited to submit full-page extended papers to the open access journal Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ISSN: 2938-2602).

3) The limited number of full-page papers published in the journals will be selected by the Editorial Board to extend to book chapters for the open access Book Series on 'Advances in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency', Vol. 1, which will be published in 2023.

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