Korea Blockchain Conference 2026 (KCBC2026)

Call for Papers

Korea Blockchain Conference 2026 (KCBC2026) invites students, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers on blockchain technologies and emerging applications of blockchain in artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, identity, trust, payments, and governance.

KCBC2026 aims to provide an academic forum for discussing recent research trends, practical applications, and future directions in blockchain-based systems. In particular, this conference focuses on the convergence of blockchain and agentic AI systems, including secure identity verification, autonomous transactions, decentralized trust, and policy-based control of agent actions.

Topics of Interest

Identity, Trust, and Security

• Identity verification for agentic systems

• Inter-agent authentication and attestation

• Decentralized Public Key Infrastructure (DPKI)

• Public Key Infrastructure for agentic systems

• Security for autonomous agents

• Trust and credentialing in multi-agent environments

• Blockchain-based identity management

• Verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers

• Trust establishment among human users, agents, and organizations

Economy, Payments, and Transactions

• Agentic economy

• Agentic payments

• Payments for autonomous agents

• Autonomous agent transactions

• Human-delegated transactions

• Transactions conducted by agents on behalf of humans

• Machine customers

• Autonomous customer agents

• Customer bots

• Smart contracts for autonomous economic activities

• Secure settlement and transaction verification

• Accountability and auditability of agent-driven transactions

Governance, Approval, and Control

• Agentic action approval

• Approval of agentic actions

• Authorization of autonomous agent actions

• Human-in-the-loop approval for autonomous agents

• Transaction authorization for agentic systems

• Policy-based control of autonomous agent actions

• Governance models for autonomous agents

• Access control for AI-driven systems

• Compliance and accountability in agentic environments

AI and Blockchain Convergence

• Convergence of AI and blockchain

• AI-blockchain integration

• Blockchain-based infrastructure for agentic systems

• Decentralized trust for autonomous agents

• Secure agent economies enabled by blockchain

• Blockchain for trustworthy AI systems

• AI-assisted blockchain security

• Blockchain-based audit trails for AI decisions

• Smart contracts for AI service coordination

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: July 21, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: July 28, 2026
Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: August 4, 2026

Submission Site

Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system for KCBC2026.

Contact

Jungwon Seo
jungwonrs@jbnu.ac.kr