Frontiers in Blockchain

Open Access Policy: Articles are published under an open-access model and are freely available to readers.

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY), according to the publisher's open-access statement.

Peer Review Policy: Single-anonymized peer review, with manuscripts evaluated by editors and community reviewers with relevant expertise.

Publication Ethics: The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Originality and Plagiarism: Manuscripts must comply with the publisher's originality and publication ethics requirements.

Research Integrity: Authors are responsible for accurate reporting, appropriate validation, and transparent presentation of research methods and findings.

Data Availability: Authors should provide data availability statements and make supporting data, code, and other research materials accessible where appropriate, subject to ethical, legal, and licensing restrictions.

Conflicts of Interest: Authors must disclose relevant competing interests.

Corrections and Retractions: Post-publication corrections and other editorial actions are handled under the publisher's applicable policies.

Editorial Independence: Editorial decisions follow the journal's review process. Payment of publication charges does not guarantee acceptance.

Authors must submit manuscripts to the specialty section most appropriate to their research topic and demonstrate a clear contribution to blockchain technology, its applications, or its wider implications.

Manuscripts should present rigorous research, transparent methodology, and appropriate technical, empirical, theoretical, or analytical validation.

Authors must:

• Follow the journal's current manuscript preparation and submission requirements.
• Select an article type accepted by the relevant specialty section.
• Include a title, abstract, keywords, references, figures, tables, and supplementary materials where appropriate.
• Describe algorithms, protocols, system architecture, datasets, experimental settings, and analytical methods in sufficient detail.
• Provide appropriate performance evaluations, security analyses, formal verification, or empirical validation when relevant.
• Explain the practical, theoretical, economic, or societal relevance of the findings.
• Disclose funding sources, author contributions, and competing interests.
• Obtain required ethical approvals for research involving human participants or sensitive data.
• Provide data availability statements and share supporting code, datasets, or research materials where appropriate and permitted.
• Respond to editorial and reviewer comments during peer review.

Submissions must have a clear connection to blockchain or distributed ledger research. Authors should consult the requirements of their selected specialty section before submitting.