Anomaly detection in blockchain networks: A comprehensive survey

MU Hassan, MH Rehmani… - … Communications Surveys & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, blockchain technology has attracted a huge attention from both
industry and academia because it can be integrated with a large number of everyday …

Sok: Decentralized exchanges (dex) with automated market maker (amm) protocols

J Xu, K Paruch, S Cousaert, Y Feng - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
As an integral part of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, decentralized exchanges
(DEXs) with automated market maker (AMM) protocols have gained massive traction with …

Understanding security issues in the NFT ecosystem

D Das, P Bose, N Ruaro, C Kruegel… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have emerged as a way to collect digital art as well as an
investment vehicle. Despite having been popularized only recently, NFT markets have …

Quantifying blockchain extractable value: How dark is the forest?

K Qin, L Zhou, A Gervais - 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Permissionless blockchains such as Bitcoin have excelled at financial services. Yet,
opportunistic traders extract monetary value from the mesh of decentralized finance (DeFi) …

CeFi vs. DeFi--Comparing Centralized to Decentralized Finance

K Qin, L Zhou, Y Afonin, L Lazzaretti… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
To non-experts, the traditional Centralized Finance (CeFi) ecosystem may seem obscure,
because users are typically not aware of the underlying rules or agreements of financial …

Analysis of cryptocurrency transactions from a network perspective: An overview

J Wu, J Liu, Y Zhao, Z Zheng - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
As one of the most important and famous applications of blockchain technology,
cryptocurrency has attracted extensive attention recently. Empowered by blockchain …

Financial crimes in web3-empowered metaverse: Taxonomy, countermeasures, and opportunities

J Wu, K Lin, D Lin, Z Zheng, H Huang… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
At present, the concept of metaverse has sparked widespread attention from the public to
major industries. With the rapid development of blockchain and Web3 technologies, the …

A multivocal literature review of decentralized finance: Current knowledge and future research avenues

V Gramlich, T Guggenberger, M Principato… - Electronic Markets, 2023 - Springer
While decentralized finance (DeFi) has the potential to emulate and, indeed, outperform
existing financial systems, it remains a complex phenomenon yet to be extensively …

Crypto wash trading

LW Cong, X Li, K Tang, Y Yang - Management Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
We present the first systematic approach to detect fake transactions on cryptocurrency
exchanges by exploiting robust statistical and behavioral regularities associated with …

NFT Wash Trading: Quantifying suspicious behaviour in NFT markets

V von Wachter, JR Jensen, F Regner… - … Conference on Financial …, 2022 - Springer
The smart contract-based markets for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the Ethereum
blockchain have seen tremendous growth in 2021, with trading volumes peaking at …