  ChainScience 2024, the second edition of the interdisciplinary conference,
brought together academics, practitioners, and industry experts to explore
novel developments in the realm of distributed ledger technologies. The
conference aimed to bridge diverse fields such as informatics, business,
economics, finance, regulation, law, mathematics, physics, and complexity
science. The papers presented in these conference proceedings address emerging
topics such as AI/ML applications to blockchain, DLTs interoperability,
decentralized financial services, and tokenomics, alongside ethical, societal,
and governance aspects of blockchain and DLTs.
  With a focus on promoting high-quality research and interdisciplinary
collaboration, ChainScience24 aimed to unlock the collective potential of its
diverse participants, embodying the ethos that the whole is greater than the
sum of its parts.
