11th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts
(WTSC'27)
In Association with Financial Cryptography 2027
February 12th, 2027
Accra Beach Hotel & Spa
Barbados
Program Chairs
| Andrea Bracciali | University of Turin, IT |
| Massimiliano Sala | University of Trento, IT |
| Carlo Brunetta | ShunyaXifra, FR |
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Call for Papers
Decentralised computing and smart contracts are supporting applications ranging from cryptocurrencies, to decentralised finance, provenance and supply chain, self-sovereign identity, non-fungible tokens, governance, notarisation, decentralised social media, layer2 frameworks, ... to cite but a few, and are key for the developing Web3.
Smart contracts , i.e. self-enforcing agreements in the form of executable programs, are deployed to and run on top of blockchains, in different formats and flavours, from Bitcoin to Ethereum, to the last-generation blockchain, multi-chain and layer2++ frameworks. Making them correct and trustworthy poses open and multidisciplinary research questions; solutions are key for mature and consolidated adoption.
Such a complex and evolving programming framework and execution environment is challenging in terms of modelling and verification, particularly for its distinguishing features of being "autonomous and untamperable" and source of ultimate trust.
Multidisciplinary and multifactorial aspects affect correctness, safety, efficiency, resilience, privacy, accountability, regulatory compliance, and trust in smart contracts. This workshop focuses on various aspects of the new engineering paradigms, research on programming languages and verification methodologies, in broad terms, for the foundations of Trusted Smart Contracts and their applications in very many different contexts.
A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest and open problems includes:
- validation and definition of the programming abstractions and execution models,- verification of the properties expected to be enforced by smart contracts,
- fairness and decentralisation of contracts and their management,
- effects of consensus mechanisms and proof-of mechanisms on smart contracts,
- smart contract in side-chains and multi-chains,
- smart contracts in/for layer2++,
- foundations of software engineering for smart contracts,
- authentication and anonymity management,
- privacy and privacy-preserving contracts,
- oblivious transfer,
- data provenance,
- access rights,
- game-theoretic approaches for security and validation,
- resilience of the validation/mining/execution model,
- blockchain data analytics,
- law and regulatory aspects,
- rewards, economics and sustainability/stability of the framework,
- comparison of the permissioned and non-permissioned scenarios,
- use cases and killer applications of smart contracts.
A non-exhaustive list of applications includes:
- governance and decentralised organisations- decentralised finance,
- layer 2++ models, frameworks and applications
- self-sovereign identity,
- non-fungible tokens,
- central bank digital currencies,
- programmable money,
- future outlook on smart contract technologies.
WTSC gathers together researchers from both academia and industry interested in the many facets of Trusted Smart Contract engineering and provides a multi-disciplinary forum for discussing open problems, proposed solutions and the vision on future developments in blockchain technology and applications. WTSC focuses on smart contracts as an application layer(s) on top of blockchains, and blockchain theory and applications are of strong interest as well.
Experts in fields including (a non-exhaustive list):
- programming languages,- distributed systems,
- decentralised systems,
- verification,
- security,
- software engineering,
- decision and game theory,
- cryptography,
- finance and economics,
- law and regulators,
as well as, practitioners and relevant companies, are invited to take part and submit their findings, case studies and reports on open problems for presentation at the workshop.
Invited Speaker (TBA)
Important Dates
WTSC adopts a submission schedule with a double deadline . A first deadline will allow authors to plan their participation well in advance. A second deadline will allow authors who need extra time to develop their contributions, to have a further opportunity to participate. Selected borderline papers from the first deadline may be considered for and also invited to resubmit to the second deadline after revision. Abstract registration is kindly requested in advance for both deadlines. All deadlines are 23:59 AoE.
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| WTSC | February 12, 2027 |
| Financial Cryptography | February 8-12, 2027 |
| Final Papers | To be Announced |
Submission
Submitted papers should describe novel, previously unpublished and unsubmitted scientific contributions to the field, and will be subject to rigorous peer review.
Accepted submissions will be included in the conference proceedings to be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Submissions are limited to 15 pages in standard LNCS format excluding references and appendices and must be submitted as a PDF file. A total page restriction may apply for the printed proceedings version. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the full papers have to be intelligible without them.Regular papers must be anonymous with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. For each accepted paper the conference requires at least one registration at the general or academic rate.
All papers must be submitted electronically according to the instructions and forms found in the submission page.
If you are interested in submitting a short-paper, a work-in-progress report, a demo or a poster, this is also of interest. Please Contact organisers for details.
Submission Page
Submission page: SUBMIT YOUR PAPER HERE!
FC is organized annually by the International Financial Cryptography Association in cooperation with IACR.