[agents] CFP: 1st International Workshop on Web3 Applications and the eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) 2025 @ IEEE ISCC 2025

[Lorenzo Perinello]

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*CFP: 1st International Workshop on Web3 Applications and the eVolution 
of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) 2025 @ IEEE ISCC 2025*

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https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/wave2025/home

2-5 July 2025, Bologna, Italy


Accepted papers will be published by IEEE and will be available via the 
IEEE Xplore.



Motivation and Rationale


Web3 and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) are two key factors of the new 
Internet era. They are redefining the landscape of digital 
communications and distributed systems, offering new opportunities for 
secure, resilient, and scalable applications. The worldwide adoption of 
Web3 is reshaping how users experience Internet services by including 
concepts such as decentralization, democratization and rewarding in 
existing services. The main engine of Web3 is blockchain technology. 
However, there are numerous areas where there is room for improvement.


To begin with, most Web3 applications revolve around DeFi, however, the 
decentralisation offered by blockchain technology could help plenty of 
scenarios. Promising scenarios are supply chains, health, decentralized 
storage, data sharing, power grids, virtual worlds (like the Metaverse) 
and many more. Additionally, there are other scenarios where Web3 could 
have a meaningful impact, including IoT, vehicular networks, cloud and 
edge computing, digital identities, intellectual property management, 
digital twins, and integration with the physical world. DeFi is still 
quite far from perfect. Indeed, fungible and non-fungible assets are 
constantly evolving to include more advanced functionalities as so to 
increase their adoption. Moreover, DeFi was shown to be susceptible to 
malicious activity, including fake NFTs, sleepminting, washtrading, rug 
pull, pump and dump, Maximal Extractable Value and other scams. Finding 
solutions to foresee and prevent such malevolent practices becomes 
crucial for the true adoption of this technology. Lastly, blockchain 
technology has some inherent limitations that are still to be addressed, 
including creating efficient consensus protocols for public blockchains, 
and secure channels for transaction confirmation among others.


The Web3 Applications and the eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) 
workshop analyses the technological challenges and the potential of Web3 
and DeFi applications. By bringing together researchers and 
practitioners, the workshop aims to attract contributions that can 
discuss how these emerging technologies can shape the future of 
blockchain, and address the challenges of their adoption. Papers on both 
theoretical and design aspects are welcomed, which describe and evaluate 
novel design methods and system prototypes. The workshop also welcomes 
work-in-progress and position papers.



Topics


We welcome submission on a wide range of topics, including but not 
limited to:


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    Web3 Applications and Technologies

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    Web3 storage decentralization and data sharing

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    Novel Web3 applications (IoT, networks, cloud computing)

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    DLTs and Blockchain Technology

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    Blockchain security and performance

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    Adoption of blockchain in innovative scenarios

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    Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and similars (e.g. GameFi, SocialFi)

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    Application of DeFi to novel scenarios

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    DeFi vulnerability identification and mitigation

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    New DeFi services

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    Decentralized Social Networking: analysis and applications

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    Decentralized Technology for the Metaverse

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    NFTs analysis and applications

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    AI for Web3 and DeFi

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    Privacy, scalability, and governance

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    Networking and communications for Web3 and DeFi

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    Solutions for safe online environments



Submission


Submissions will be made via EDAS.

WAVE'25 uses a double-blind review process. The workshop accepts 
manuscripts up to 6 pages long in the IEEE double-column proceedings 
format, including tables, figures and references.



Important Dates


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    Papers submission: January 10, 2025 (AoE, UCT -12) (to be extended)

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    Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2025

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    Camera-ready paper due: April 14, 2025

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    Workshop: July 2-5, 2025 (tbc)




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