- Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs)
- Smart contract theory
- Languages and tools for (secure) dApps
- Infrastructures for dApps
- Communication protocols and standards for dApps
- Software engineering for dApps and smart contracts verification
- Decentralized identity
- Identity management for dApps
- Token economy
- Off-Chain/Layer 2 dApps
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
- Cryptographic primitives for applications
- Analytics for on-chain and off-chain data
- Governance structure and mechanisms
- Interoperability for dApps, Blockchains, and DLTs
- Privacy of dApps
- Security of dApps
- Scalability, sharding, and performance of blockchain systems
- Policy/laws surrounding dApps and cryptocurrencies
- Applications in emerging domains
- Other emerging research topics