This week, July 2020, two blockchain papers from LASIGE integrated researchers were presented on the 50th of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2020), the premier forum on dependable and secure computing systems (acceptance rate of 16,5%).

The papers (bellow) point some new ways to deal with blockchain security, scalability, and interoperability:

• Alysson Bessani, Eduardo Alchieri, João Sousa, André Oliveira, Fernando Pedone. "From Byzantine Replication to Blockchain: Consensus is only the Beginning".
• Enrique Fyn, Fernando Pedone, Alysson Bessani. "Smart Contracts on the Move".