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Objectives: To combat money laundering, banks raise and review alerts on transactions that exceed confidential thresholds. However, the thresholds may be leaked to criminals, allowing them to break up large transactions into amounts under…

General Economics · Economics 2025-07-22 Rasmus Ingemann Tuffveson Jensen , Joras Ferwerda , Christian Remi Wewer

Airdrop is a crucial concept in tokenomics. Startups of decentralized applications (DApps) reward early supporters by airdropping newly issued tokens up to a certain amount as a free giveaway. This naturally induces greedy hackers, called…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zheng Liu , Hongyang Zhu

Blockchain technology has been successfully exploited for deploying new economic applications. However, it has started arousing the interest of malicious actors who deliver scams to deceive honest users and to gain economic advantages.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Letterio Galletta , Fabio Pinelli

Detecting illicit nodes on blockchain networks is a valuable task for strengthening future regulation. Recent machine learning-based methods proposed to tackle the tasks are using some blockchain transaction datasets with a small portion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Junliang Luo , Farimah Poursafaei , Xue Liu

Countless research works of deep neural networks (DNNs) in the task of credit card fraud detection have focused on improving the accuracy of point predictions and mitigating unwanted biases by building different network architectures or…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) applications depend on accurate price oracles to ensure secure transactions, yet these oracles are highly vulnerable to manipulation, enabling attackers to exploit smart contract vulnerabilities for unfair asset…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Bo Gao , Yuan Wang , Qingsong Wei , Yong Liu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , David Lo

Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs) are now a significant component of the financial world where billions of dollars are traded daily. Differently from traditional markets, which are typically based on Limit Order Books, DEXs typically work as…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-28 Daniele Maria Di Nosse , Federico Gatta , Fabrizio Lillo , Sebastian Jaimungal

Modern financial electronic exchanges are an exciting and fast-paced marketplace where billions of dollars change hands every day. They are also rife with manipulation and fraud. Detecting such activity is a major undertaking, which has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Timothy DeLise

In recent years, phishing scams have become the crime type with the largest money involved on Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain platform. Meanwhile, graph neural network (GNN) has shown promising performance in various node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Shucheng Li , Fengyuan Xu , Runchuan Wang , Sheng Zhong

Trade execution on Decentralized Exchanges (DEXes) is automatic and does not require individual buy and sell orders to be matched. Instead, liquidity aggregated in pools from individual liquidity providers enables trading between…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-09-23 Lioba Heimbach , Eric Schertenleib , Roger Wattenhofer

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols are crypto projects developed on the blockchain to manage digital assets. Attacks on DeFi have been frequent and have resulted in losses exceeding \$77 billion. However, detection methods for malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Wenkai Li , Xiaoqi Li , Yuqing Zhang , Zongwei Li

The number of attacks and accidents leading to significant losses of crypto-assets is growing. According to Chainalysis, in 2021, approx. $14 billion has been lost due to various incidents, and this number is dominated by Decentralized…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Eske Hoy Nielsen , Danil Annenkov , Bas Spitters

On electronic game platforms, different payment transactions have different levels of risk. Risk is generally higher for digital goods in e-commerce. However, it differs based on product and its popularity, the offer type (packaged game,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Bokai Cao , Mia Mao , Siim Viidu , Philip S. Yu

In the context of globalization and the rapid expansion of the digital economy, anti-money laundering (AML) has become a crucial aspect of financial oversight, particularly in cross-border transactions. The rising complexity and scale of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Qian Yu , Zhen Xu , Zong Ke

The prosperity of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) unveils underlying risks, with reported losses surpassing 3.2 billion USD between 2018 and 2022 due to vulnerabilities in Decentralized Applications (DApps). One significant threat is the Price…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Dabao Wang , Bang Wu , Xingliang Yuan , Lei Wu , Yajin Zhou , Helei Cui

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) serve as a representative form of digital asset ownership and have attracted numerous investors, creators, and tech enthusiasts in recent years. However, related fraud activities, especially phishing scams, have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wenkai Li , Zongwei Li , Xiaoqi Li , Chunyi Zhang , Xiaoyan Zhang , Yuqing Zhang

Fraudulent activities on digital banking services are becoming more intricate by the day, challenging existing defenses. While older rule driven methods struggle to keep pace, even precision focused algorithms fall short when new scams are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Karthikeyan V. R. , Premnath S. , Kavinraaj S. , J. Sangeetha

DeFi (Decentralized Finance) is one of the most important applications of today's cryptocurrencies and smart contracts. It manages hundreds of billions in Total Value Locked (TVL) on-chain, yet it remains susceptible to common DeFi price…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Juantao Zhong , Daoyuan Wu , Ye Liu , Maoyi Xie , Yang Liu , Yi Li , Ning Liu

Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) form a cornerstone of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, processing token trades worth billions of dollars daily. Yet, a significant fraction of these trades are suboptimal: alternative routing paths…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yu Zhang , Claudio J. Tessone

The efficiency of decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and the influence of token routing algorithms on market performance and stakeholder outcomes remain underexplored. This paper introduces the concept of Standardized Total Arbitrage Profit…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-08-06 Yu Zhang , Claudio J. Tessone