About this Research Topic
Blockchain technologies already impact the ways our technological and institutional environment will be shaped for decades to come.
This Research Topic aims to present contributions addressing the most challenging questions that remain unresolved about distributed systems and decentralized protocols, and reflect a selected list of previous contributions to ChainScience ’23.
Submissions on the latest developments in blockchain technologies are welcome from both researchers and industry leaders. Of particular interest are explorations of the following questions:
- How do you reach some version of consensus/consistency as efficiently as possible?
- Can you compute over data that is still encrypted?
- What are the uses of computational law?
- Are there ways of programmatically validating governance?
- What statistics can be analyzed in the blockchain world?
- What are the statistical mechanics of blockchain?
- What are appropriate economic indicators for blockchain ecosystems?
- What are models of blockchain interoperability?
This Research Topic aims to present contributions addressing the most challenging questions that remain unresolved about distributed systems and decentralized protocols, and reflect a selected list of previous contributions to ChainScience ’23.
Submissions on the latest developments in blockchain technologies are welcome from both researchers and industry leaders. Of particular interest are explorations of the following questions:
- How do you reach some version of consensus/consistency as efficiently as possible?
- Can you compute over data that is still encrypted?
- What are the uses of computational law?
- Are there ways of programmatically validating governance?
- What statistics can be analyzed in the blockchain world?
- What are the statistical mechanics of blockchain?
- What are appropriate economic indicators for blockchain ecosystems?
- What are models of blockchain interoperability?
Keywords: Distributed Systems, Decentralized Protocols, Scientific Analysis of Blockchain Activity, Structuring and Proving Blockchain, Advanced Cryptographic Methods, Next-Generation Blockchain Architectures
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
