8th Distributed Ledger Technology Workshop

Hotel Flamingo Resort – Pula

4-6 June 2026

IMPORTANT DATES

SUBMISSIONS

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is having an ever growing popularity. The first applications of DLT concern cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero, etc.), but the DLT disruptive features enable several applications in many scenarios of interest both in research and business contexts. In particular, the possibility of executing Smart Contracts makes the DLT technology suitable to be adopted in a large number of application fields, being Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, Edge Computing, Supply Chain Management, and Business Process Management, only some examples. At the same time, the adoption of DLT opens new challenges in terms of privacy, security, scalability, sustainability and decentralization.

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

• Blockchain foundations
• Consensus protocols
• Cryptography for blockchains
• Privacy and anonymity on blockchains and their applications
• Attacks to/through smart contracts
• Formal verification of blockchain protocols and smart contracts
• Scalability of blockchains and their applications
• Lightweight protocols based on blockchains
• Smart contracts and their applications
• Smart contract languages (Solidity, Rust, Move, …)
• Decentralized finance
• Decentralized identity
• Transactions analysis
• Energy consumption issues
• Applications of blockchain technology
• Decentralization and governance in DLT
• Non-fungible tokens
• Cross-chain interoperability
• Game theory and blockchains
• Decentralized physical infrastructure network
• Security and auditing tools
• Blockchain for AI and AI for Blockchain
• Regulatory compliance

Submission guidelines

Contribution types
The workshop accepts four kinds of contributions:
1) Regular research papers (10-15 pages, excluding references and appendices; included in the proceedings)
They must present original research results, i.e., results that have not been previously published and are not under concurrent submission to conferences or workshops with proceedings, nor to journals; research results in the form of Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers are also welcome.

2) Short research papers (4-8 pages, excluding references, no appendices allowed; included in the proceedings)
They must present original research results; research results in the form of position papers are also welcome.

3) PhD student reports (4-8 pages, excluding references and appendices; not included in the proceedings)
They allow doctoral students to describe their research topic, any results already achieved, and the plan for future research activities.

4) Oral communications (1-2 pages, extended abstract only; not included in the proceedings)
They allow authors to present work in progress, already published results, or opinion papers on the current state of the art and future research directions.

Participation Requirements
All accepted contributions require a presentation at the workshop. Therefore, at least one author of each accepted contribution must attend the workshop in person to give the presentation. Remote presentations will not be allowed.

Proceedings
All accepted regular and short papers will be included in the workshop (post-)proceedings, which will be published on CEUR-WS. Consequently, these submissions must be formatted according to the CEURART style (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART).

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

Submission and Review Process

The submission process for PhD student reports and oral communications follows a one-stage procedure: authors must submit their contribution by the corresponding deadline and will receive the notification by March 15, 2026. In case of acceptance, authors must register for the workshop by March 31, 2026, , and are strongly suggested to book the room by this deadline to access the high discount the organizers have obtained with the hosting structure.
Oral communications and PhD student reports will have a light review process. The notification will consist of a short statement motivating acceptance or rejection for oral communications, and constructive feedback for PhD student reports.

The submission process for regular and short papers follows a two-stage procedure:

• Stage 1 – Extended Abstract Submission
  Authors must submit the extended abstract (1-2 pages) by the Extended Abstract Submission deadline. Extended Abstract Submission will have a light review process. Contributions that receive a positive evaluation at this stage will have a ‘green light’ to be accepted, at least as oral communications.
  Authors of accepted extended abstract must register for the workshop by March 31, 2026, and are strongly suggested to book the room by this deadline to access the high discount the organizers have obtained with the hosting structure.
• Stage 2 – Paper Submission
  Authors of accepted oral communications may submit the complete version of the contribution as a regular paper or short paper by the Paper Submission deadline. If the complete version is positively evaluated, the contribution will be included in the workshop (post-)proceedings. If the evaluation is negative, the acceptance as an oral communication will remain valid.
  Regular papers and short papers are expected to be reviewed by three reviewers.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=dlt20260

Organization

Workshop Chairs

• Lodovica Marchesi, University of Cagliari
• Andrea Pinna, University of Cagliari

Program Chairs

• Andrea Pinna, University of Cagliari
• Francesco Tiezzi, University of Florence

Organizing Co-Chairs

• Maria Ilaria Lunesu, University of Cagliari
• Lodovica Marchesi, University of Cagliari
• Andrea Pinna, University of Cagliari
• Roberto Tonelli, University of Cagliari
• Massimo Bartoletti, University of Cagliari

Program Commettee (TBC)

• Leonardo Aniello – University of Southampton
• Marco Baldi – Università Politecnica delle Marche
• Gavina Baralla – Università degli Studi di Cagliari
• Fadi Barbara – Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
• Massimo Bartoletti – Università degli Studi di Cagliari
• Marco Benedetti – Banca d’Italia
• Stefano Bistarelli – Università degli Studi Perugia
• 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
• Carmelo Felicetti – Università degli Studi della Calabria
• Stefano Ferretti – Università degli Studi di Bologna
• Danilo Francati – Aarhus University / Concordium
• Letterio Galletta – IMT Lucca
• Valentina Gatteschi – Politecnico di Torino
• Antonella Guzzo – Università degli Studi della Calabria
• Giacomo Ibba – Università degli Studi di Cagliari
• Cosimo Laneve – Università degli Studi di Bologna
• Alberto Leporati – Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
• Bernardo Magri – Manchester University
• Alessandro Marcelletti – Università degli Studi di Camerino
• Marino Miculan – Università degli Studi di Udine
• Paolo Mori – Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR
• Andrea Morichetta – Università degli Studi di Camerino
• Leonardo Mostarda – Università degli Studi di Perugia
• Monica Palmirani – Università degli Studi di Bologna
• Remo Pareschi – Università degli Studi del Molise
• Alessia Pisu – Università degli Studi di Cagliari
• Maurizio Pizzonia – Università degli Studi Roma Tre
• Livio Pompianu – Università degli Studi di Cagliari
• 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
• Claudio Schifanella – Università degli Studi di Torino
• Luisa Siniscalchi – Technical University of Denmark
• 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”
• Filippo Zatti – Università degli Studi di Firenze 
• Roberto Zunino – Università degli Studi di Trento

Steering Commitee

• Prof. Leonardo Aniello, University of Southampton
• Prof. Massimo Bartoletti, Università degli Studi di Cagliari
• Prof. Stefano Bistarelli, Università degli Studi Perugia
• Prof. Maurizio Pizzonia, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
• Prof. Andrea Vitaletti, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”