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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>FMBC - Home</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/default.css"> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <div id="logo"> <a href="./">International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains</a> </div> <div id="navigation">  <a href="./2025/index.html">2025</a> <a href="./2024/index.html">2024</a> <a href="./2022/index.html">2022</a> <a href="./2021/index.html">2021</a> <a href="./2020/index.html">2020</a> <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/fmbc">2019</a>   </div> </div> <div id="content"> <h1>Home</h1> <p>Blockchain is a novel technology to store data in a decentralized way. Although the technology was originally invented to enable cryptocurrencies, it quickly found applications in several other domains.</p> <p>Blockchains may also provide support for Smart Contracts. Smart Contracts are scripts of an ad-hoc programming language that are stored on the blockchain and that run on the network. They can interact with the ledger’s data and update its state. These scripts can express the logic of possibly complex contracts between users of the blockchain. Thus, Smart Contracts can facilitate the economic activities of blockchain participants.</p> <p>Since blockchains are often used to store financial transactions, bugs may result in huge economic losses and thus it is now of utmost importance to have strong guarantees of the behaviour of blockchain software. These guarantees can be brought by using Formal Methods. Indeed, Blockchain software encompasses many topics of computer science where using Formal Methods techniques and tools is relevant: consensus algorithms to ensure the liveness and the security of the data on the chain, programming languages specifically designed to write smart contracts, cryptographic protocols, such as zero-knowledge proofs, used to ensure privacy, etc.</p> <p>The FMBC workshop is a forum to identify theoretical and practical approaches of formal methods for blockchain technology. Topics include, but are not limited to:</p> <ul> <li>Formal models of blockchain applications or concepts</li> <li>Formal methods for consensus protocols</li> <li>Formal methods for blockchain-specific cryptographic primitives or protocols</li> <li>Formal languages for Smart Contracts</li> <li>Verification of Smart Contracts</li> </ul> <h3 id="steering-committee">Steering Committee</h3> <ul> <li>Bruno Bernardo, Nomadic Labs, France</li> <li><a href="https://marmsoler.com/">Diego Marmsoler</a>, University of Exeter, UK</li> </ul> <h3 id="editions">Editions</h3> <ul> <li><p><a href="./2025/">FMBC 2025</a> will be held on May 04, 2025 and will be co-located with <a href="https://etaps.org/2025/">ETAPS 2025</a>. Proceedings will be published in the Dagstuhl <a href="https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/oasics/">OpenAccess Series in Informatics</a> (OASIcs) series.</p></li> <li><p><a href="./2024/">FMBC 2024</a> took place on April 07, 2024 and was co-located with <a href="https://etaps.org/2024/">ETAPS 2024</a>. Proceedings were published in <a href="https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/volume/OASIcs-volume-118">Volume 118</a> of the Dagstuhl <a href="https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/oasics/">OpenAccess Series in Informatics</a> (OASIcs) series.</p></li> <li><p><a href="./2022/">FMBC 2022</a> took place on August 11, 2022 and was affiliated with <a href="http://i-cav.org/2022/">CAV 2022</a> and co-located with <a href="https://www.floc2022.org">FLoC 2022</a>. Proceedings were published in <a href="https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/volume/OASIcs-volume-105">Volume 105</a> of the Dagstuhl <a href="https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/oasics/">OpenAccess Series in Informatics</a> (OASIcs) series.</p></li> <li><p><a href="./2021/">FMBC 2021</a> took place on July 18 and 19, 2021 (online) and was affiliated with <a href="http://i-cav.org/2021/">CAV 2021</a>. Proceedings were published in <a href="https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/volume/OASIcs-volume-95">Volume 95</a> of the Dagstuhl <a href="https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/oasics/">OpenAccess Series in Informatics</a> (OASIcs) series.</p></li> <li><p><a href="./2020/">FMBC 2020</a> took place on July 19, 2020 (online) and was affiliated with <a href="http://i-cav.org/2020/">CAV 2020</a>. Proceedings were published in <a href="https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2020/13412/">Volume 84</a> of the Dagstuhl <a href="https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/oasics/">OpenAccess Series in Informatics</a> (OASIcs) series.</p></li> <li><p><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/fmbc">FMBC 2019</a> took place in Porto, Portugal on October 11, 2019 and was affiliated to <a href="http://formalmethods2019.inesctec.pt/">FM’19</a>, the 3rd World Congress on Formal Methods. Proceedings were published in <a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030549930">volume 12232</a> of the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).</p></li> </ul> </div> <div id="footer"> Site proudly generated by <a href="http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll">Hakyll</a> </div> </body> </html>

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