Special Issue on Blockchain and Web3.0
Published 11 June, 2025
Introduction:
With the rapid advancement of blockchain technology and Web 3.0, decentralized trust architectures, smart contracts, and distributed data sovereignty are reshaping the internet ecosystem and business models across various industries. Nonetheless, the practical deployment and widespread adoption of blockchain and Web 3.0 continue to face significant challenges. These include performance bottlenecks, privacy-protection issues, smart-contract vulnerabilities, cross-chain security risks, governance complexities, and regulatory hurdles.
To enable the further development and broader application of blockchain and web 3.0, it is crucial to conduct in-depth research on related technologies, application scenarios, and security mechanisms.
This special section aims to serve as a platform for publishing the most advanced original and innovative research results across all areas related to blockchain and Web3.0. The Journal of Electronic Science and Technology (JEST) strives to capture the latest trends within the domain of these fields, exploring the evolving landscape of their scientific and technological aspects, and providing a forum for scientists and engineers to discuss and exchange academic insights.
JEST plans to publish this special section on blockchain and Web3.0 regularly. We welcome the submission of both research articles and review articles that highlight recent breakthroughs in research outcomes and industrial implementations. Submissions that propose innovative approaches to overcome the prevailing obstacles in blockchain and Web 3.0 are particularly encouraged.
Potential topics include, but not limited to:
- Issues of security and privacy surrounding Blockchain and Web 3.0 technology
- Performance optimization of Blockchain systems
- Integration of Blockchain with other emerging technologies
- Cryptocurrency theories, methods and applications
- Incentive and consensus mechanisms for Blockchain and Web3.0
- Identity and reputation management system for Blockchain and Web3.0
- Applications and Case Study.
This is an ongoing call for papers. Following submission, the review process for the Initial Review Comments Notification takes about one month. Authors are then given up to one month to submit their revisions. Accepted papers are published in the article-based publishing (ABP) format on ScienceDirect — meaning that once the paper is accepted in the Editorial Manager system, it will be published online with a DOI, volume number, issue number, and article number.
Benefits and Responsibilities of Authors:
♦ Rapid peer-review process: Initial review feedback provided within approximately 30 days.
♦ Free and open access: Accepted papers will be published at no cost to authors and are freely accessible to readers.
♦ Targeted visibility: Your paper will be featured in an email alert sent to over 10,000 scholars in related fields.
♦ Wider promotion: Articles are promoted via TrendMD across leading platforms including ScienceDirect, Springer, IEEE Xplore, Nature, Science, PNAS, and more.
♦ Copyright agreement” All authors must sign the JEST Copyright Agreement available for download here.
JEST (ISSN 1674-862X) is a peer-reviewed periodical, open access on ScienceDirect, indexed by Ei Compendex, INSPEC, and Scopus, and also included in CA, CSCD, DOAJ, Science paper Online, etc.
All the manuscripts will undergo standard peer review processes.
For manuscript preparation and submission, please follow the Guide for Authors.
All manuscripts (in Word format) should be submitted by the online submission system.
When submitting, please indicate that this paper is intended for Special Section on blockchain and Web3.0.
For inquiries for this special section, please contact journal@uestc.edu.cn.
Guest Editors:
Dr. Xiao-Song Zhang
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Xiao-Song Zhang, National-level talent, is a Fellow of the China Computer Federation (CCF), China Institute of Communications (CIC), and Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE). He has led research teams to win both first- and second-class prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and currently serves as Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program. Prof. Zhang is the Dean of both the School of Cyber Security and the School of Information and Software Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China. He also serves as Director of the Sichuan-Chongqing Joint Key Laboratory of Intelligence and Security for Digital Economy (Sichuan), and Director of the Engineering Research Center of Blockchain Security and Platform Technology under the Ministry of Education.
Prof. Zhang received the second National Innovation Excellence Award in 2020, the National Cybersecurity Outstanding Talent Award in 2017, the third Sichuan Outstanding Talent Award in 2022, the inaugural National Sci-Tech Innovation Master Award in 2024, and the sixth Outstanding Engineer Award in 2024. Additionally, he has been selected as an Outstanding Scientist under Sichuan’s Tianfu Ten-Thousand Talents Program.
Dr. Sheng Cao
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Sheng Cao Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at UESTC, serves as the Executive Director of the Sichuan-Chongqing Joint Key Laboratory of Intelligence and Security for Digital Economy (Sichuan), Director of the Sichuan Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Blockchain Storage and Trading Technologies, Deputy Director of the Engineering Research Center of Blockchain Security and Platform Technology under the Ministry of Education, Executive Dean of the Sichuan Provincial Digital Economy Research Institute, a member of the Sichuan Provincial Expert Committee on Scientific and Technological Ethics, and an External Supervisor of Sichuan Rural Commercial United Bank.
Prof. Cao has published over 50 research articles in prestigious journals and conferences. He has either applied for or been granted more than 20 invention patents in the United States and China. His research achievements have brought him three first- and second-class Provincial and Ministerial Science and Technology Progress Awards. Moreover, in 2023, his work was recognized as one of the Top 10 Scientific and Technological Advances in Information and Communication by the China Institute of Communications, securing the 2nd position out of 10. In 2024, Prof. Cao was honored with the 8th “Jin Zhi Award” as an influential figure in the cybersecurity industry of China.
Dr. Ting Chen
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Ting Chen, Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at UESTC, Leading Talent in Cyberspace Security. He has received the Fok Ying-Tung Young Scientist Award from the Ministry of Education, the Alibaba DAMO Academy Young Fellow Award, the CCF Young Scientist Award, the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and the First Prize of the Sichuan Science and Technology Progress Award. His research focuses on software security, especially the security of blockchain software, Android software, and desktop system software. In the past five years, he has published over 50 papers in CCF-A international conferences and journals, and received 17 academic awards including the Best Paper Award at INFOCOM 2018. He is the principal investigator of one NSFC Key Project, two Key Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and several provincial and ministerial-level projects.
Dr. Chun-Hua Su
University of Aizu
Chun-Hua Su, Senior Associate Professor at the University of Aizu. His research focuses on information security, privacy protection, blockchain technology, federated learning, and IoT security. He received his Ph.D. degree in engineering from Kyushu University, Japan, where he was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) as a Research Fellow (DC2) to conduct research on privacy-preserving data mining and distributed protocols. He previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Scientist at Singapore Management University (SMU) and the Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, participating in several smart city and distributed system security projects.
He has published over 200 papers in top-tier international journals and conferences, including IEEE IoT J, IEEE TIFS, IEEE GLOBECOM, and IEEE ICPADS. He has served multiple times as Program Committee Chair or General Chair for international conferences such as ACNS and ISPEC. His honors include the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award (2020) and Best Paper Awards from the TrustCom 2017, Inscrypt 2019, and SocialSec 2019. He has also served as a guest editor for special issues of international journals such as Security and Communication Networks and IEEE Access.
Dr. Jun Zhao
Nanyang Technological University
Jun Zhao, Assistant Professor in the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS) - formerly known as the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He received a PhD degree in May 2015 in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Oakland, USA, affiliating with CMU's renowned CyLab Security & Privacy Institute, and a bachelor's degree in July 2010 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Before joining NTU first as a postdoc and then as a faculty member, he was a postdoc at Arizona State University as an Arizona Computing PostDoc Best Practices Fellow. He is currently an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal, and other journals. He was also selected as a Best Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (WCL) and a Best Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN) in 2023.
