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)