Message from the Blockchain 2020 Steering Chairs

Abstract

With the rapid growth in blockchain technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of blockchain driven applications and an ever-increasing demand for practice of high performance blockchain systems. Blockchain has moved into the mainstream of communication, computation and storage, and has become a key technology in reshaping future research and development activities in many academic and industrial fields, especially when a solution must cope with decentralization in a distributed and untrusted environment. Blockchain-2020 is a continuous event following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada. It aims to provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future.