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

[Lorenzo Perinello]

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

Web3 Applications and Technologies
Web3 storage decentralization and data sharing
Novel Web3 applications (IoT, networks, cloud computing)
DLTs and Blockchain Technology
Blockchain security and performance
Adoption of blockchain in innovative scenarios
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and similars (e.g. GameFi, SocialFi)
Application of DeFi to novel scenarios
DeFi vulnerability identification and mitigation
New DeFi services
Decentralized Social Networking: analysis and applications
Decentralized Technology for the Metaverse
NFTs analysis and applications
AI for Web3 and DeFi
Privacy, scalability, and governance
Networking and communications for Web3 and DeFi
Solutions for safe online environments


*Submission*

Submissions will be made via EDAS using the following link: 
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33279.
Note that accepted papers of up to 6 pages will be published with no 
additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. 
Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted. At least one author of 
each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and 
present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be 
published in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be 
included in the ISCC 2025 proceedings and will be submitted for 
inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ISCC proceedings have been indexed in the 
past by ISI, DBLP and Scopus. This makes the ISCC conference one of the 
publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both Computer 
and Communications areas.


*Important Dates*

Papers submission: *[Extended Deadline] *March 9th, 2025 (AoE, UCT -12)
Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2025
Camera-ready paper due: April 14, 2025
Workshop: July 2-5, 2025 (tbc)


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