ChainScience 2024, Conference Proceedings (2404.09782v2)

Abstract: ChainScience 2024, the second edition of the interdisciplinary conference, brought together academics, practitioners, and industry experts to explore novel developments in the realm of distributed ledger technologies. The conference aimed to bridge diverse fields such as informatics, business, economics, finance, regulation, law, mathematics, physics, and complexity science. The papers presented in these conference proceedings address emerging topics such as AI/ML applications to blockchain, DLTs interoperability, decentralized financial services, and tokenomics, alongside ethical, societal, and governance aspects of blockchain and DLTs. With a focus on promoting high-quality research and interdisciplinary collaboration, ChainScience24 aimed to unlock the collective potential of its diverse participants, embodying the ethos that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.