Blockchain and its applications.- A Novel Cross-Chain Relay Method Based on Node Trust Evaluation.- Collateral-Efficient Instant Contingent Payments: The Promise of A Hardware-Driven Off-Chain Payment System.- Emerging Applications.- A Survey on Edge Intelligence for Music Composition: Principles, Applications, and Privacy Implications.- AI-Driven Sentiment Analysis for Music Composition.- Fault Diagnosis Method for Hydro-Power Plant with Bi-LSTM Knowledge Graph aided by Attention Scheme.- AI and its Security.- Zero-Knowledge with Robust Learning: Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning for Enhanced.- Security and Privacy.- PPAPAFL: A Novel Approach to Privacy Protection and Anti-Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning.- Towards Retentive Proactive Defense Against DeepFakes.- A Fast and Accurate Non-Interactive Privacy-Preserving Neural Network Inference Framework.