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<b>CFP: 1st International Workshop on Web3 Applications and the
eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) 2025 @ IEEE ISCC 2025</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/wave2025/home">https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/wave2025/home</a><br>
2-5 July 2025, Bologna, Italy<br>
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Accepted papers will be published by IEEE and will be available via
the IEEE Xplore.<br>
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Motivation and Rationale<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Topics<br>
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We welcome submission on a wide range of topics, including but not
limited to:<br>
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Web3 Applications and Technologies<br>
Web3 storage decentralization and data sharing<br>
Novel Web3 applications (IoT, networks, cloud computing)<br>
DLTs and Blockchain Technology<br>
Blockchain security and performance<br>
Adoption of blockchain in innovative scenarios<br>
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and similars (e.g. GameFi, SocialFi)<br>
Application of DeFi to novel scenarios<br>
DeFi vulnerability identification and mitigation<br>
New DeFi services<br>
Decentralized Social Networking: analysis and applications<br>
Decentralized Technology for the Metaverse<br>
NFTs analysis and applications<br>
AI for Web3 and DeFi<br>
Privacy, scalability, and governance<br>
Networking and communications for Web3 and DeFi<br>
Solutions for safe online environments<br>
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Submission<br>
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Submissions will be made via EDAS using the following link:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33279">https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33279</a>.<br>
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.<br>
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Important Dates<br>
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Papers submission: [Extended Deadline] February 10, 2025 (AoE, UCT
-12)<br>
Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2025<br>
Camera-ready paper due: April 14, 2025<br>
Workshop: July 2-5, 2025 (tbc)<br>
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