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The explosive growth of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Web3 has created a new frontier for digital art and collectibles, but also an emerging space for fraudulent activities. This study provides an in-depth analysis of NFT rug pulls, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Trishie Sharma , Rachit Agarwal , Sandeep Kumar Shukla

NFT or Non-Fungible Token is a token that certifies a digital asset to be unique. A wide range of assets including, digital art, music, tweets, memes, are being sold as NFTs. NFT-related content has been widely shared on social media sites…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Arnav Kapoor , Dipanwita Guhathakurta , Mehul Mathur , Rupanshu Yadav , Manish Gupta , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

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

NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) have seen significant growth since they first captured public attention in 2021. However, the NFT market is plagued by fake transactions and economic bubbles, e.g., NFT wash trading. Wash trading typically refers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shijian Chen , Jiachi Chen , Jiangshan Yu , Xiapu Luo , Yanlin Wang

With the popularity of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), NFTs have become a new target of phishing attacks, posing a significant threat to the NFT trading ecosystem. There has been growing anecdotal evidence that new means of NFT phishing attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Jingjing Yang , Jieli Liu , Jiajing Wu

Cybersquatting refers to the practice where attackers register a domain name similar to a legitimate one to confuse users for illegal gains. With the growth of the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) ecosystem, there are indications that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Kai Ma , Ningyu He , Jintao Huang , Bosi Zhang , Ping Wu , Haoyu Wang

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) drive the prosperity of the Web3 ecosystem. By November 2023, the total market value of NFT projects reached approximately 16 billion USD. Accompanying the success of NFTs are various security issues, i.e.,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Kai Ma , Jintao Huang , Ningyu He , Zhuo Wang , Haoyu Wang

The Non-Fungible Token (NFT) market in the Ethereum blockchain experienced explosive growth in 2021, with a monthly trade volume reaching \$6 billion in January 2022. However, concerns have emerged about possible wash trading, a form of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Massimo La Morgia , Alessandro Mei , Alberto Maria Mongardini , Eugenio Nerio Nemmi

Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are digital assets that represent objects like art, collectible, and in-game items. They are traded online, often with cryptocurrency, and are generally encoded within smart contracts on a blockchain. Public…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-11-02 Matthieu Nadini , Laura Alessandretti , Flavio Di Giacinto , Mauro Martino , Luca Maria Aiello , Andrea Baronchelli

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 3.5b in September 2021. This dramatic surge has led to industry observers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Victor von Wachter , Johannes Rude Jensen , Ferdinand Regner , Omri Ross

Non-Fungible Token (NFT) is evolving with the rise of the cryptocurrency market and the development of blockchain techniques, which leads to an emerging NFT market that has become prosperous rapidly then followed by a cooldown.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Junliang Luo , Yongzheng Jia , Xue Liu

This paper presents an analysis of the role of social media, specifically Twitter, in the context of non-fungible tokens, better known as NFTs. Such emerging technology framing the creation and exchange of digital object, started years ago…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Simone Casale-Brunet , Mirko Zichichi , Lee Hutchinson , Marco Mattavelli , Stefano Ferretti

The Non-Fungible Token (NFT) market is mushrooming in recent years. The concept of NFT originally comes from a token standard of Ethereum, aiming to distinguish each token with distinguishable signs. This type of token can be bound with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Qin Wang , Rujia Li , Qi Wang , Shiping Chen

As a blockchain-based application, Non-Fungible Token (NFT) has received worldwide attention over the past few years. Digital artwork is the main form of NFT that can be stored on different blockchains. Although the NFT market is rapidly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yufan Zhang , Zichao Chen , Luyao Zhang , Xin Tong

NFT rug pull is one of the most prominent type of scam that the developers of a project abandon it and then run away with investors' funds. Although they have drawn attention from our community, to the best of our knowledge, the NFT rug…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Jintao Huang , Ningyu He , Kai Ma , Jiang Xiao , Haoyu Wang

Crypto donations now represent a significant fraction of charitable giving worldwide. Nonfungible token (NFT) charity fundraisers, which involve the sale of NFTs of artistic works with the proceeds donated to philanthropic causes, have…

General Economics · Economics 2026-02-27 Chen Liang , Murat Tunc , Gordon Burtch

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 witnessed several high-profile (and high-value) asset sales and a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Dipanjan Das , Priyanka Bose , Nicola Ruaro , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna

NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are blockchain-based cryptographic tokens to represent ownership of unique content such as images, videos, or 3D objects. Despite NFTs' increasing popularity and skyrocketing trading prices, little is known about…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Tanusree Sharma , Zhixuan Zhou , Yun Huang , Yang Wang

The digital innovation accompanied by explicit economic incentives have fundamentally changed the process of innovation diffusion. As a representative of digital innovation, NFTs provide a decentralized and secure way to authenticate and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Zhe Li , Tianfang Zhao , Hongjun Zhu

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have recently surged to mainstream attention by allowing the exchange of digital assets via blockchains. NFTs have also been adopted by artists to sell digital art. One of the promises of NFTs is broadening…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-11-16 Giovanni Colavizza
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