Welcome to the 7th Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology (SDLT)
Distributed Ledger Technology is an emerging technology, which provides the way to store and manage information in a distributed fashion. It enables the creation of decentralized crypto-currencies, smart contracts, eGovernance, supply chain management, eVoting etc over a network of computer systems without any human intervention. Unprecedented reliability and security over other cryptographic schemes has expanded the application domains of blockchain including financial services, real estate, stock exchange, identity management, supply chain, and Internet of Things.
The goal of this symposium is to provide a forum for researchers, business leaders and policy makers in this area to carefully analyse current systems or propose new solutions creating a scientific background for a solid development of innovative Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) applications.
Keynote Speakers
Associate Professor Vincent Gramoli, University of Sydney and Redbelly Network
Redbelly - Australian Sovereignty in Blockchain
Abstract: In this talk, Vincent Gramoli will present the Australian-made research, design and development of the Redbelly Blockchain. He will present a series of innovations like the first formally verified blockchain consensus algorithm, the patented superblock optimisation that changes the traditional block creation competition into a collaboration to achieve scalability, the introduction of accountability to disincentive hackers from stealing assets.
Bio: Vincent Gramoli is the Founder and CTO or Redbelly Network. He received a Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council and leads the Concurrent Systems Research Group at the University of Sydney. With his group he reported vulnerabilities in Ethereum and developed the Redbelly Blockchain that encapsulates DBFT, the first model-checked blockchain consensus protocol. In the past, Gramoli has been affiliated with INRIA, Cornell, CSIRO and EPFL, and he recently received the best paper awards of ICDCS'21, IPDPDS'22 and ICDCS'22. He teaches Blockchain Scalability on Coursera to 5000 students and his textbook is published by Springer.
Past Symposiums
The 1st Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology was held on 13th June 2017 at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
The 2nd Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology was held on 5th July 2018 at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
The 3rd Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology was held on 12th November 2018 at Novotel Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia
The 4th Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology was held on 10th December 2019 at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
The 5th Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology was held on 23rd November 2021 at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
The 6th Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology was held on 22nd November 2022 at Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, Australia
Important Dates
Paper submission:
30 July 2023
1 Septermber 2023
Notification of acceptance: 30 August 2023 8 Septermber 2023
Camera Ready Submissions: 15 Septermber 2023
Event: 30 November - 1 December 2023
Scope and Topics
The main topics include (but are not limited to):
- Anonymity and privacy in DLT
- Provenance and trust management
- Security analysis of DLT solutions
- Formal verification of Smart Contracts and Blockchain Protocols
- Blockchain based IoT security solutions
- Deployment of DLT and Smart Contracts
- Malicious transactions detection and recovery techniques in Blockchain
- Applications in healthcare, finance, law, governance, supply chain, identity management, agribusiness, fraud detection, crypto currencies
- Consensus mechanisms: PoW, PoS, PoE etc
- New architectures, paradigms, and platforms
- Scalability and interoperability
- Blockchain based business models
- Payment systems
- Big data, AI and Blockchain technology
- Other industry applications and evaluations
Paper/Talk Submissions
Researchers and industry practitioners are invited to submit proposals via EasyChair .
Springer will publish the proceedings. Authors are advised to prepare their manuscripts in line with the Springer conference format guidelines available here. Please note: Due to the double-blind review process, authors should not include their names or affiliations in the paper.
For the Academic Track submit a Single Column paper within 15 pages excluding references and appendix.
For the Industry Track, submit a single-column full paper of up to 12 pages or a short paper of up to 6 pages.
For the Industry Talk, submit an abstract and a brief outline of the talk (this will not be published).
Organising Committee
General Co-Chairs
Mark Utting, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Guangdong Bai, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Program Co-Chairs
Naipeng Dong, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Babu Pillai, Southern Cross University, Australia
Local Co-Chairs
Kamanashis Biswas, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Academic Co-Chairs
Ryan Ko, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Industry Co-Chairs
Katrina Donaghy, Civic Ledger, Australia
Warwick Powell, Queensland University of Technology
Web Co-Chairs
Jacob Jie Dong, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Eric Tinghan Wang, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Academic Programme Committee
RK Shyamasundar, IIT-Bombay, India
Rafael Belchior, INESC-ID \& T?cnico Lisboa, Portugal
Peter McBurney, Kings College London, UK
Md Sadek Ferdous, Imperial College London, UK
Vishwas Patil, IIT-Bombay, India
Ermyas Abebe, Senior Researcher at Consensys
Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury, La Trobe University, Australia
Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia
Warwick Powell, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Gowri Ramachandran, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Peter Robinson, Head of Blockchain Research at Immutable
Ranju Mandal, Torrens University, Brisbane
Chen Shiping, Data61-CSIRO, Australia
David Hyland-Wood, Griffith Queensland, Brisbane
Sushmita Ruj, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Sandra Johnson, Principal Researcher at Consensys
Nathan Churchward, Payments leader at Cuscal Limited
Raghavendra Ramesh, Vice President (R&D) at SupraOracles
Qiang Tang, University of Sydney
ED Young, Chief Revenue Officer, Crystal Delta
Shantanu Pal, Deakin University
Zhe Hou, Griffith University
Supporting partners
