Decentralized finance—A systematic literature review and research directions

E Meyer, IM Welpe, PG Sandner - 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is the (r) evolutionary movement to create a solely
code-based, intermediary-independent financial system—a movement which has grown …

Applicability of intrusion detection system on Ethereum attacks: a comprehensive review

AHH Kabla, M Anbar, S Manickam, TA Al-Amiedy… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For many reasons, Ethereum attracts more investors, researchers, and even scammers; this
is the first platform that enables the new Decentralized Applications (DApps) to run on top of …

Securing the ethereum from smart ponzi schemes: Identification using static features

Z Zheng, W Chen, Z Zhong, Z Chen, Y Lu - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Malware detection approaches have been extensively studied for traditional software
systems. However, the development of blockchain technology has promoted the birth of a …

Token Spammers, Rug Pulls, and Sniper Bots: An Analysis of the Ecosystem of Tokens in Ethereum and in the Binance Smart Chain ({{{{{BNB}}}}})

F Cernera, M La Morgia, A Mei, F Sassi - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
In this work, we perform a longitudinal analysis of the BNB Smart Chain and Ethereum
blockchain from their inception to March 2022. We study the ecosystem of the tokens and …

Temporal transaction information-aware Ponzi scheme detection for ethereum smart contracts

L Wang, H Cheng, Z Zheng, A Yang, M Xu - Engineering Applications of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the frenetic advances of blockchain techniques have promoted the large-
scale application of cryptocurrency and attracted significant attention in the mushrooming …

Cross-modality mutual learning for enhancing smart contract vulnerability detection on bytecode

P Qian, Z Liu, Y Yin, Q He - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Over the past couple of years, smart contracts have been plagued by multifarious
vulnerabilities, which have led to catastrophic financial losses. Their security issues …

A feature-based robust method for abnormal contracts detection in ethereum blockchain

A Aljofey, A Rasool, Q Jiang, Q Qu - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Blockchain technology has allowed many abnormal schemes to hide behind smart
contracts. This causes serious financial losses, which adversely affects the blockchain …

Deepinfer: Deep type inference from smart contract bytecode

K Zhao, Z Li, J Li, H Ye, X Luo, T Chen - … of the 31st ACM Joint European …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Smart contracts play an increasingly important role in Ethereum platform. It provides various
functions implementing numerous services, whose bytecode runs on Ethereum Virtual …

Ai-powered fraud detection in decentralized finance: A project life cycle perspective

B Luo, Z Zhang, Q Wang, A Ke, S Lu, B He - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In recent years, blockchain technology has introduced decentralized finance (DeFi) as an
alternative to traditional financial systems. DeFi aims to create a transparent and efficient …

TxPhishScope: Towards Detecting and Understanding Transaction-based Phishing on Ethereum

B He, Y Chen, Z Chen, X Hu, Y Hu, L Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The prosperity of Ethereum attracts many users to send transactions and trade crypto assets.
However, this has also given rise to a new form of transaction-based phishing scam, named …