This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology, SDLT 2024, held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, during November 28-29, 2024. The 8 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. They deal with current systems and innovative solutions providing a robust scientific foundation for the advancement of Distributed Ledger Technology applications.