The BLOCKCHAIN’24 congress is devoted to: promoting the investigation of next-generation blockchain and DLT technologies; exploring the latest ideas, innovations, guidelines, theories, models, technologies, applications and tools of blockchain/DLT combined with other cutting-edge technologies; and identifying critical issues and challenges that researchers and practitioners must deal with in future research. They want to offer researchers and practitioners the opportunity to work on promising lines of research and to publish their developments in this area.