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: 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, 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 AT easychair DOT org