The Distributed Ledger Technologies Workshop is a forum for researchers, developers, and users to discuss issues related to Distributed Ledger Technology and its adoption in research and business scenarios. The primary goal is to foster discussion and cross-fertilisation of ideas among experts in different fields related to DLTs, and thus advance the national and international state-of-the-art. Research, applications, case studies, and experiences concerning DLT are all encouraged with a special focus on the privacy and security issues. 

The 7th Distributed Ledger Technologies Workshop (DLT2025) is jointly organized by the Department of Computer Engineering, Modelling, Electronics and Systems Science (DIMES), University of Calabria, and the Italian Distributed Ledger Technology Working Group. The event will take place from June 12 to June 14 at the all-inclusive "TUI MAGIC LIFE Calabria" resort, located on the Tyrrhenian coast in Pizzo (VV), Calabria, Italy, close to Lamezia Terme International Airport.

A Scientific School on Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies is also organized before the Workshop from June 9 to 11, 2025.

Conference Topics

The topics of interest of the workshop includes (but are not limited to):

  1. Blockchain foundations
  2. Consensus protocols
  3. Cryptography for blockchains
  4. Privacy and anonymity on blockchains and their applications
  5. Attacks to/through smart contracts
  6. Formal verification of blockchain protocols and smart contracts
  7. Scalability of blockchains and their applications
  8. Lightweight protocols based on blockchains
  9. Smart contracts and their applications
  10. Decentralized finance
  11. Transactions analysis
  12. Energy consumption issues
  13. Applications of blockchain technology
  14. Decentralization and governance in DLT
  15. Non-fungible tokens
  16. Oracles, bridges and interoperability of blockchains
  17. Game theory and blockchains

Workshop Chairs

  • Antonella Guzzo – University of Calabria, Italy
  • Domenico Saccà – University of Calabria, Italy

Program Chairs

  • Stefano Bistarelli – Università degli Studi Perugia
  • Carmelo Felicetti – Università degli Studi della Calabria
  • Claudio Schifanella – Università degli Studi di Torino

Program Committee

  • Leonardo Aniello – University of Southampton
  • Marco Baldi – Università Politecnica delle Marche
  • Fadi Barbara – Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
  • Massimo Bartoletti – Università degli Studi di Cagliari
  • Marco Benedetti – Banca d’Italia
  • Andrea Bracciali – Università degli Studi di Torino
  • Chiara Braghin – Università degli Studi di Milano
  • Francesco Bruschi – Politecnico di Milano
  • Michele Ciampi – University of Edinburgh
  • Agostino Cortesi – Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
  • Silvia Crafa – Università degli Studi di Padova
  • Angelo De Caro – IBM Zurich
  • Alfredo Favenza – Links Foundation, Torino
  • Stefano Ferretti – Università degli Studi di Bologna
  • Danilo Francati – Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Letterio Galletta – IMT Lucca
  • Valentina Gatteschi – Politecnico di Torino
  • Antonella Guzzo – Università degli Studi della Calabria
  • Cosimo Laneve – Università degli Studi di Bologna
  • Alberto Leporati – Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
  • Bernardo Magri – Manchester University
  • Marino Miculan – Università degli Studi di Udine
  • Paolo Mori – Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR
  • Leonardo Mostarda – Università degli Studi di Camerino
  • Monica Palmirani – Università degli Studi di Bologna
  • Remo Pareschi – Università degli Studi del Molise
  • Maurizio Pizzonia – Università degli Studi Roma Tre
  • Laura Ricci – Università degli studi di Pisa
  • Sabina Rossi – Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
  • Antonino Rullo – ICAR-CNR
  • Domenico Saccà – Università degli Studi della Calabria
  • Francesco Santini – Università degli Studi di Perugia
  • Luisa Siniscalchi – Technical University of Denmark
  • Francesco Tiezzi – Università degli Studi di Firenze
  • Adele Veschetti – Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • Andrea Visconti – Università degli Studi di Milano
  • Ivan Visconti – Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
  • Andrea Vitaletti – Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
  • Roberto Zunino – Università degli Studi di Trento

Local Organizing Committee

  • Carmelo Felicetti – Università degli Studi della Calabria
  • Antonella Guzzo – Università degli Studi della Calabria
  • Fiza Siyal – Università degli Studi della Calabria
  • Tahir Usman – Università degli Studi della Calabria

Reservation

The booking service is now available!

Book at SPECIAL RATES (reserved for attendees and their accompanying persons regularly registered for the conference):

- accommodation at the "TUI MAGIC LIFE Calabria" resort, Pizzo (VV), Tyrrhenian coast, Calabria, Italy, in an all-inclusive formula (including lunch and dinner, unlimited access to the bar, access to all sports activities, use of the swimming pool and other entertainment facilities);

- arrival and/or departure transfer service from/to the Lamezia Terme International Airport (IATA code: SUF), 17 km away from the resort and well connected with both Milan and Rome airports, and from/to the Lamezia Terme Central Railway Station, 15 km away from the resort;

- pass (including lunch, unlimited access to the bar, access to all sports activities, use of the swimming pool and other entertainment facilities), which is mandatory for guests with no-stay at the "TUI MAGIC LIFE Calabria" resort.

The BOOKING SERVICE is managed by Calabriatour.net Srls event management agency. For any requests and additional information, please contact:

dlt2025@calabriatour.net

We look forward to your participation in DLT 2025!

Submission

The workshop accepts four kinds of contributions:

  • 1) Regular Research Papers
  • 2) Short Papers
  • 3) PhD Student Research Position Papers
  • 4) Oral communications

Submissions of all kinds of contributions, if accepted, entail an oral presentation at the workshop. As such, at least one author of an accepted submission must attend the workshop in person to give the talk. Remote talks will not be possible.

Regular and short papers must include original results (i.e., results not published yet and not concurrently under submission to a conference/workshop with proceedings, nor to a journal). Research results in the form of position papers or SoKs are also welcome. The PhD research position papers will allow students to set out the details of the research topic, any results already achieved, and the plan for future activities.

It is expected that regular, short, and PhD research position papers will be evaluated by three reviewers. All accepted (regular, short, and PhD research) papers will be included in the workshop (post-) proceedings published on CEUR-WS. Rejected (regular, short, and PhD research) papers will then be evaluated as oral communications unless the authors specify in the submission right after the title that "the paper should not be evaluated as an oral communication".

Both regular and short research papers must be formatted in CEURART style.

Regular research and PhD position papers should have a minimum length of 10 pages and a maximum length of 15 pages, not including bibliography and appendices. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices.

Short research papers should have a minimum length of 4 pages and a maximum length of 8 pages (CEURART style), followed by a bibliography (no appendix is allowed).

Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of a journal in the area.

Submissions of oral communications are expected to be short, with a maximum of 2 pages and are not required to follow a specific format. The review process of submitted oral communications will be lighter, and the notification will consist of just a short sentence motivating acceptance or rejection. Since oral communications will not appear in the proceedings, such submissions can also present already published results.

Workshop Registration

The registration fee is 100 euros and includes event organization costs, social dinner and conference kit.
Each accepted contribution requires the registration and the presence of at least one of the authors.

Scientific School on Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies

The school is committed to advancing knowledge in the emerging field of crypto economics, which has developed alongside the rise of virtual currencies and distributed ledger technologies. Positioned at the intersection of computing, cryptography, law, economics, and game theory, this discipline is evolving at a remarkable pace. The program explores both the theoretical foundations and practical applications of these innovations, addressing researchers, PhD students, academics, and professionals in the industry. It also welcomes motivated undergraduates and recent graduates with a strong technical background and a keen interest in the field.

Scientific School Chair
  • Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Scientific School Program Co-Chairs
  • Carmelo Felicetti, University of Calabria, Italy
  • Stefano Ferretti, University of Bologna, Italy

Scientific School Committee
  • Massimo Bartoletti, University of Cagliari, Italy
  • Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy
  • Claudio Schifanella, University of Turin, Italy
  • Francesco Tiezzi, University of Florence, Italy
  • Roberto Tonelli, University of Cagliari, Italy

Organization and Financial Co-Chairs
  • Andrea Pugliese, University of Calabria, Italy
  • Roberto Tonelli, University of Cagliari, Italy

Invited Lecturers

Keynote Speaker

Giuseppe Ateniese

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

Giuseppe Manco

Giuseppe Manco
National Research Council (CNR-ICAR), Italy
Laura Ricci

Laura Ricci
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Luigi Vigneri
IOTA Foundation
Ivan Visconti

Ivan Visconti
Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Mirko Zichichi

Mirko Zichichi
IOTA Foundation
To Be Announced

To Be Announced
TBA

Selection

The school plans for a maximum of 24 attendees; the attendance and accommodation to the school is free, while travel expenses are to be paid by participants. The participants will be selected by the scientific committee on a CV best-match basis. All sessions will be held in English.

Application deadline April 15, 2025
Notification April 30, 2025
School dates June 09–11, 2025

Contact

For info regarding Submission, Registration, School Application, Sponsorship and Accommodation, please consider following contacts:

Carmelo Felicetti , Università degli Studi della Calabria

carmelo.felicetti@unical.it