The 7th IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures

July 21st to 24th, 2025

Tucson, Arizona, USA

(Part of the IEEE CISOSE 2025 Congress)

Program & Schedule

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Scope

The 7th IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (IEEE DAPPS 2025) aims to bring together researchers and industry professionals working on decentralized applications (dApps), Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies. The event is part of the larger IEEE CISOSE 2025 congress and focuses on the practical and theoretical advancements in decentralized systems.

While Blockchain is well-known for its role in digital payments and cryptocurrencies, its broader potential lies in creating decentralized applications (dApps) that can revolutionize various industries across domains such as supply chains, certificate management, and data sovereignty. dApps provide secure, transparent, and tamper-resistant solutions for peer-to-peer transactions, eliminating the need for a trusted central authority.

IEEE DAPPS 2025 will focus on key topics such as decentralized algorithms, infrastructure, and real-world deployments. The conference will offer a platform to discuss innovations, challenges, and future directions in the development and use of dApps across industries.

The conference organizers are currently undergoing an approval process for a journal special issue on the conference topic, thus creating an opportunity for publishing an extended version of the conference papers.

Important Links

• Call for Papers
• Organizing Committee
• Program Committee
• Venue Information
• Travel Information
• Sponsorship Information

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Moti Yung (Columbia University) - “Crypto for Crypto”

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Call for Papers

Scope

The 7th IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (IEEE DAPPS 2025) aims to bring together researchers and industry professionals working on decentralized applications (dApps), Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies. The event is part of the larger IEEE CISOSE 2025 congress and focuses on the practical and theoretical advancements in decentralized systems.

While Blockchain is well-known for its role in digital payments and cryptocurrencies, its broader potential lies in creating decentralized applications (dApps) that can revolutionize various industries across domains such as supply chains, certificate management, and data sovereignty. dApps provide secure, transparent, and tamper-resistant solutions for peer-to-peer transactions, eliminating the need for a trusted central authority.

IEEE DAPPS 2025 will focus on key topics such as decentralized algorithms, infrastructure, and real-world deployments. The conference will offer a platform to discuss innovations, challenges, and future directions in the development and use of dApps across industries.

The conference organizers are currently undergoing an approval process for a journal special issue on the conference topic, thus creating an opportunity for publishing an extended version of the conference papers.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs)
• Smart contracts theory and programming
• Languages and tools for (secure) dApps
• Web3 security and privacy
• AI for dApps
• Machine learning for dApps
• Infrastructures for dApps
• Communication protocols and standards for dApps
• Software engineering for dApps and smart contracts verification
• Privacy of dApps
• Security of dApps
• Decentralized identity
• Identity management for dApps
• Token economy
• Off-Chain/Layer 2 dApps
• Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
• Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
• Applied Cryptography for dApps applications
• Analytics for on-chain and off-chain data
• Governance structure and mechanisms
• Policy/laws surrounding dApps and cryptocurrencies
• Interoperability for dApps, Blockchains, and DLTs
• Scalability, optimization, and performance of blockchain systems
• DePIN Decentralized Physical Infrastructure
• RWA Real Word Assets
• dApps sustainability
• dApps for Digital Sovereignty
• Cross-chain and Off-chain technology
• Forensics for dApps
• Applications in emerging domains
• Other emerging research topics

Important Dates

• March 15th March 31st (FIRM): Paper/Poster submission deadline
• May 8th: Author notification
• May 18th: Final paper submission (camera-ready)
• July 21st to July 24th: Conference dates

Paper Submission

IEEE DAPPS 2025 solicits research papers describing novel and previously unpublished scientific contributions to the field of Web3 and decentralized computing and infrastructures. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

Three different types of contributions can be submitted:

• Regular/Full papers (10 pages, IEEE double-column format)
• Short papers (6 pages, IEEE double-column format)
• Posters (2 pages, IEEE double-column format)

Regular papers should describe novel and previously unpublished scientific contributions to the field of dApps and decentralized infrastructures. Each regular paper is limited to 10 pages, including tables, figures and references.

Short papers aim at presenting novel work in progress, novel applications, and novel industry perspectives in the field of dApps and decentralized infrastructures. Each short paper is limited to 6 pages, including tables, figures and references. Short papers will also be peer-reviewed, however, they will be evaluated with a focus on the potential for establishing new ideas and for sparking the interest of participants. Ph.D. students are also invited to submit ongoing work lacking complete results as short papers.

Poster authors are required to submit a 2-page extended abstract that covers the problem being tackled by the poster, the methodology/approach taken by the authors, and the main results attained up to this point. Poster papers must be submitted electronically at the submission site by the submission deadline (see the important dates). At least one author of each accepted poster must register for the conference and present the poster. Each accepted poster will be presented by its authors during the main conference.

The authors of accepted papers and posters will be given a choice to present a demo for the purpose of demonstrating their work. The demo will not be peer-reviewed and will not be evaluated as part of the paper/poster submission.

All papers must be written in English. Manuscripts must include a title, an abstract, and a list of 4-6 keywords. All papers must be prepared in the IEEE double-column proceedings format. The paper submission templates are available on IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings.

IEEE DAPPS 2025 uses a Double-Blind review process. Authors are required to remove their names, affiliation(s) and other identifying information from the header of the manuscript. This also includes meta-data in the submitted document as well as acknowledgment sections. Authors are required to cite their previous work in a neutral manner, for example, avoid “in our previous work [3]” and instead use “as shown in [3]”. Papers that do not meet these anonymization requirements may be desk-rejected without further review.

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. The name(s) of the author(s) will not be visible to the reviewers of a paper. The name(s) of the author(s) will be visible in the submission system to the General Chairs and the Program Committee Chairs. Authors should report any conflict of interest with the list of Program Committee members during submission of the manuscript, in which case the Program Committee Chairs will exclude the corresponding PC member(s) from reviewing the paper.

Authors must submit their manuscripts via the following link by March 15th March 31st (FIRM), 2025, 23:59 AoE at the latest: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dapps2025

Preprints

Authors who have submitted articles for publication by the IEEE may be interested in posting preprint versions of the same article. In order to find out more about the allowed forms of preprints and to understand what counts as a prior publication, please see IEEE’s Sharing and Posting Policies as well as Section 8.1.9 on “Electronic Information Dissemination” in the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual.

Paper publication

All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (EI-Index) and included in the IEEE Digital Library. For publication, each accepted paper is required to be registered by one of its authors, and at least one author is required to attend and present the paper at the conference for the paper to be included in the final technical program and the IEEE Digital Library.

Contact us

The organizing committee of IEEE DAPPS 2025 can be reached via email at: dapps2025@easychair.org

To register for IEEE DAPPS 2025, please visit: https://cvent.me/D1mOer

Hosted by Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
The venue will take place at the University of Arizona Library.

Location

1510 E University Blvd, 85721 Tucson, Arizona, United States

Tentative Program (subject to changes!)

For the full program of the CISOSE conference, please consult the CISOSE website. Times are written in local MST time (GMT -7).

Tue, July 22

Keynote Speech (1PM MST)

Session Chair: Roberto Di Pietro (KAUST)

Prof. Moti Yung (Columbia University)

Title: Crypto for Crypto

Abstract: When Cryptocurrency was abbreviated as “crypto” there was a lot of dissatisfaction among cryptographers who believed that “crypto” is (and should stay as) a short name for cryptography. I am going to show that this is a false controversy. Cryptocurrency, and more generally running a blockchain, requires cryptographic mechanisms and is, therefore, anyway a subfield of cryptography! I will cover cryptographic tools which are needed and used in core layers of the blockchain to enable their key properties. I will also cover some of my contributions over the years to these tools, as cryptographic tools for increased trust and functionality were predicted to be needed.

Bio: Moti Yung is a Distinguished Research Scientist with Google, and a Senior Adjunct Research Faculty at Columbia University. He got his PhD at Columbia in 1988. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of professional organizations: ACM, IEEE, IACR, EATCS, and more. Previously, he served as a research scientist with Snap Inc, a technical director with RSA Labs, a vice president and chief scientist with Certco LLC, and a researcher with IBM. In 2010 he gave the IACR distinguished lecture in Cryptography, in 2014 he won the ACM Sigsac’s outstanding innovation award. He further received the “W.W. McDowell Award” and the “Computer Pioneer Award” from the IEEE Computer Society in 2017 and 2021, respectively. He also received awards from IBM and Google for his industrial innovative contributions, and his past papers have won a number of Test of Time Awards.

Poster Session (4PM MST)

• “Real-Time Monitoring and Transparency in Pizza Production Using IoT and Blockchain”, Azmat Ullah, Maria Ilaria Lunesu, Lodovica Marchesi and Roberto Tonelli
• “Crowd-SFT: Crowdsourcing for LLM Alignment”, Alex Sotiropoulos, Sulyab Thottungal Valapu, Linus Lei, Jared Coleman and Bhaskar Krishnamachari
• “Zero-Knowledge Ring-Signature for Enhanced Anonymous Transactions in Blockchain Networks”, Chol Hyun Park, Yoohwan Kim and Ju-Yeon Jo
• “Dynamic Blockchain Sharding for Efficient and Reliable Vector Data Management in Edge Computing”, Mohsin Rasheed, Amena Begum Farha and Abdullah Al-Mamun

Wed, July 23

DAPPS ONLINE Session 1 (8AM MST)

Session Chair: Kaiwen Zhang (ETS)

• “An Experimental Study of Algorand Transaction Throughput and Latency for High Transaction Loads”, Molud Esmaili and Ken Christensen
• “LLM-Based Translation of Ethereum Solidity Contracts to Algorand Python”, Nawaz Malla, Rumyana Neykova, Giuseppe Destefanis and Francesco Tiezzi
• “Comparative Evaluation of Threshold-based Anonymous Credential Systems over Blockchain”, Reisha Ali, Akshat Gupta, Maria Francis and Kotaro Kataoka

DAPPS Session 1 CONSENSUS AND SYSTEMS (10:30AM MST)

Session Chair: Roman Vitenberg (University of Oslo)

• “Fault-Tolerant Spectrum Usage Consensus for Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite Constellations”, Arman Mollakhani and Dongning Guo
• “Secure Distributed State Management in eUTxO Blockchains”, Lorenzo Fanton, Alvise Spanò and Michele Bugliesi
• “Race-Resistant Atomic Swaps Across Heterogeneous Blockchains”, Shakila Zaman, Ram Dantu, Apurba Pokharel, Sirisha Talapuru and Vinh Quach
• “Gateway-based Cross-Chain Transaction Protocols for Permissionless and Permissioned Blockchains”, Vikas Ravi Patil, Ravi Surendra Nalawade, Kaif Ali Khan P, Kotaro Kataoka, Shantanu Shyamsundar Dangat and Xin Xu

DAPPS Session 2 DECENTRALIZED APPLICATIONS (2PM MST)

Session Chair: Kotaro Kataoka (IIT Hyderabad)

• “Hybrid EPCIS: Integrating GS1/ISO Standards with On-Chain and Off-Chain Distributed Ledger for Supply Chain Traceability”,Yalew Kidane Tolcha, Fausto Neri da Silva Vanin, Gunwoo Park, Cristiano André da Costa, Rodrigo da Rosa Righi and Daeyoung Kim (online)
• “Beyond Airbnb: Exploring Decentralized Short-Term Rentals with Ethereum and IOTA”, Kristián Košťál, Dušan Morháč, Lukas Mastilak and Adam Valach
• “Certified Achievements and Programmable Incentives for Organizational Rewards”, Selin Sezer, Micha Roon, Martin Unkel and Sabine Kolvenbach

Thu, July 24

DAPPS ONLINE Session 2 (8AM MST)

Session Chair: Kaiwen Zhang (ETS)

• “A Seafood Supply Chain Application Built on European Blockchain Service Infrastructure”, Mohd Sameen Chishti, Damilare Peter Oyinloye and Jingyue Li
• “Optimizing Concentrated Liquidity Management: A Synthetic-to-Historical Deep Reinforcement learning Strategy”, Ricardo Arcifa, Yuhang Ye, Yuansong Qiao and Brian Lee
• “Enabling Blockchain Interoperability Through Network Discovery Services”, Khalid Hassan, Amirreza Sokhankhosh and Sara Rouhani

DAPPS Session 3 PRIVACY IN BLOCKCHAIN (10:30AM MST)

Session Chair: Lodovica Marchesi (Cagliari University)

• “A Private Smart Wallet with Probabilistic Compliance”, Andrea Rizzini, Marco Esposito, Francesco Bruschi and Donatella Sciuto
• “zkMixer: A Configurable Zero-Knowledge Mixer with Anti-Money Laundering Consensus Protocols”, Theodoros Constantinides and John Cartlidge
• “DFRA for Web3 Security: Leveraging Federated Learning and Decentralized Storage”, Denzel Prince and Jeremy Blackstone (online)

DAPPS Session 4 POSTERS AND SHORT PAPER (1PM MST)

Session Chair: Yean-Fu Wen (National Taipei University)

• “Hash Power Allocation for Maximizing Revenue in Multi-Cryptocurrency Mining: A Case Study of Proof-of-Work Consensus Mechanism”, Yean-Fu Wen and Cheng-En Yang
• “Real-Time Monitoring and Transparency in Pizza Production Using IoT and Blockchain”, Azmat Ullah, Maria Ilaria Lunesu, Lodovica Marchesi and Roberto Tonelli
• “Crowd-SFT: Crowdsourcing for LLM Alignment”, Alex Sotiropoulos, Sulyab Thottungal Valapu, Linus Lei, Jared Coleman and Bhaskar Krishnamachari
• “Zero-Knowledge Ring-Signature for Enhanced Anonymous Transactions in Blockchain Networks”, Chol Hyun Park, Yoohwan Kim and Ju-Yeon Jo
• “Dynamic Blockchain Sharding for Efficient and Reliable Vector Data Management in Edge Computing”, Mohsin Rasheed, Amena Begum Farha and Abdullah Al-Mamun

Full papers

• Yalew Kidane Tolcha, Fausto Neri da Silva Vanin, Gunwoo Park, Cristiano André da Costa, Rodrigo da Rosa Righi and Daeyoung Kim. Hybrid EPCIS: Integrating GS1/ISO Standards with On-Chain and Off-Chain Distributed Ledger for Supply Chain Traceability
• Andrea Rizzini, Marco Esposito, Francesco Bruschi and Donatella Sciuto. A Private Smart Wallet with Probabilistic Compliance
• Theodoros Constantinides and John Cartlidge. zkMixer: A Configurable Zero-Knowledge Mixer with Anti-Money Laundering Consensus Protocols
• Kristián Košťál, Dušan Morháč, Lukas Mastilak and Adam Valach. Beyond Airbnb: Exploring Decentralized Short-Term Rentals with Ethereum and IOTA
• Khalid Hassan, Amirreza Sokhankhosh and Sara Rouhani. Enabling Blockchain Interoperability Through Network Discovery Services

Short papers

• Yean-Fu Wen and Cheng-En Yang. Hash Power Allocation for Maximizing Revenue in Multi-Cryptocurrency Mining: A Case Study of Proof-of-Work Consensus Mechanism
• Selin Sezer, Micha Roon, Martin Unkel and Sabine Kolvenbach. Certified Achievements and Programmable Incentives for Organizational Rewards
• Arman Mollakhani and Dongning Guo. Fault-Tolerant Spectrum Usage Consensus for Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite Constellations
• Molud Esmaili and Ken Christensen. An Experimental Study of Algorand Transaction Throughput and Latency for High Transaction Loads
• Vikas Ravi Patil, Ravi Surendra Nalawade, Kaif Ali Khan P, Kotaro Kataoka, Shantanu Shyamsundar Dangat and Xin Xu. Gateway-based Cross-Chain Transaction Protocols for Permissionless and Permissioned Blockchains
• Denzel Prince and Jeremy Blackstone. DFRA for Web3 Security: Leveraging Federated Learning and Decentralized Storage
• Lorenzo Fanton, Alvise Spanò and Michele Bugliesi. Secure Distributed State Management in eUTxO Blockchains
• Shakila Zaman, Ram Dantu, Apurba Pokharel, Sirisha Talapuru and Vinh Quach. Race-Resistant Atomic Swaps Across Heterogeneous Blockchains
• Mohd Sameen Chishti, Damilare Peter Oyinloye and Jingyue Li. A Seafood Supply Chain Application Built on European Blockchain Service Infrastructure
• Nawaz Malla, Rumyana Neykova, Giuseppe Destefanis and Francesco Tiezzi. LLM-Based Translation of Ethereum Solidity Contracts to Algorand Python
• Ricardo Arcifa, Yuhang Ye, Yuansong Qiao and Brian Lee. Optimizing Concentrated Liquidity Management: A Synthetic-to-Historical Deep Reinforcement learning Strategy
• Reisha Ali, Akshat Gupta, Maria Francis and Kotaro Kataoka. Comparative Evaluation of Threshold-based Anonymous Credential Systems over Blockchain

Poster papers

• Azmat Ullah, Maria Ilaria Lunesu, Lodovica Marchesi and Roberto Tonelli. Real-Time Monitoring and Transparency in Pizza Production Using IoT and Blockchain
• Alex Sotiropoulos, Sulyab Thottungal Valapu, Linus Lei, Jared Coleman and Bhaskar Krishnamachari. Crowd-SFT: Crowdsourcing for LLM Alignment
• Chol Hyun Park, Yoohwan Kim and Ju-Yeon Jo. Zero-Knowledge Ring-Signature for Enhanced Anonymous Transactions in Blockchain Networks
• Mohsin Rasheed, Amena Begum Farha and Abdullah Al-Mamun. Dynamic Blockchain Sharding for Efficient and Reliable Vector Data Management in Edge Computing

Physical presentations

For physical presentation the time limit are as follows:

• Full paper: 20 minutes + 5 minutes questions
• Short paper: 15 minutes + 5 minutes questions
• Poster: 10 minutes (presentation) + the poster event

Poster instructions

Please see the following link.

Online presentations

There will be special online sessions. They will be scheduled early morning local time to accomodate time zones.

Each online presentation will be 15 minutes + 5 minutes questions, no matter if it is a full or short paper. You will be given a Zoom link to connect to and a time. Please ensure you are connected at least 15 minutes before the session starts.

Prepare the Final Paper

Please revise your paper according to the IEEE Conference Paper Template (Word and LaTeX): https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates

• Regular/Full papers (10 pages, IEEE double-column format)
• Short papers (6 pages, IEEE double-column format)
• Posters (2 pages, IEEE double-column format)

Additional pages are allowed with a fee (please consult the fee page)

Sign the copyright release form

You will receive an e-mail with further instructions on how to sign the copyright release for publication by IEEE publishing services.

Upload your camera-ready to Easychair

A new Easychair link will be sent to you where you will be able to upload your final version.

Registration

You must provide an author registration for each paper. Please register here.

If you have any concern, please contact the publication chair Stephen Fan.

• Organizing Commitee
• Program Commitee

We would like to invite you to be a sponsor of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures!

Bronze (1000 USD)

• Small Logo displayed
• 1 Sponsored social media posts
• Logo and company name (online)
• Sponsorship acknowledgement post (online)

Silver (2000 USD)

• Medium Logo displayed
• Poster displayed
• Advertisement in the workshop programme
• 2 Sponsored social media posts
• Sponsored Interview (online)
• Logo and company name (online)
• Sponsorship acknowledgement post (online)

Gold (5000 USD)

• Large Logo displayed
• Poster displayed
• Designated table
• Advertisement in the workshop programme
• 3 Sponsored social media posts
• Sponsored Interview (online)
• Sponsored award
• Logo and company name (online)
• Sponsorship acknowledgement post (online)
• Sponsored talk (on-site)

Please contact the organisers for more information: dapps2025@easychair.org