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Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have gained a solid foothold within the crypto community, and substantial amounts of money have been allocated to their trades. In this paper, we studied one of the most prominent marketplaces dedicated to NFT…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-28 MohammadAmin Fazli , Ali Owfi , Mohammad Reza Taesiri

In the evolving landscape of digital art, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have emerged as a groundbreaking platform, bridging the realms of art and technology. NFTs serve as the foundational framework that has revolutionized the market for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Vivian Ziemke , Benjamin Estermann , Roger Wattenhofer , Ye Wang

Solana is a rapidly evolving blockchain platform that has attracted an increasing number of users. However, this growth has also drawn the attention of malicious actors, with some phishers extending their reach into the Solana ecosystem.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Ziwei Li , Zigui Jiang , Ming Fang , Jiaxin Chen , Zhiying Wu , Jiajing Wu , Lun Zhang , Zibin Zheng

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), digital certificates of ownership for virtual art, have until recently been traded on a highly lucrative and speculative market. Yet, an emergence of misconceptions, along with a sustained market downtime, are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Sarah Barrington , Nick Merrill

Rug pulls in Solana have caused significant damage to users interacting with Decentralized Finance (DeFi). A rug pull occurs when developers exploit users' trust and drain liquidity from token pools on Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Abdulrahman Alhaidari , Bhavani Kalal , Balaji Palanisamy , Shamik Sural

Wash trading in decentralized markets remains a significant concern magnified by the pseudonymous and public nature of blockchains. In this paper we introduce an innovative methodology designed to detect wash trading activities beyond…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Aleksandar Tošić , Niki Hrovatin , Jernej Vičič

Non-Fungible Token (NFT) markets are one of the fastest growing digital markets today, with the sales during the third quarter of 2021 exceeding $10 billions! Nevertheless, these emerging markets - similar to traditional emerging…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Konstantinos Pelechrinis , Xin Liu , Prashant Krishnamurthy , Amy Babay

NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) have experienced an explosive growth and their record-breaking prices have been witnessed. Typically, the assets that NFTs represent are stored off-chain with a pointer, e.g., multi-hop URLs, due to the costly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Ziwei Wang , Jiashi Gao , Xuetao Wei

As Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) continue to grow in popularity, NFT users have become targets of phishing attacks by cybercriminals, called \textit{NFT drainers}. Over the last year, \$100 million worth of NFTs were stolen by drainers, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Hanna Kim , Jian Cui , Eugene Jang , Chanhee Lee , Yongjae Lee , Jin-Woo Chung , Seungwon Shin

Non Fungible Token (NFT) Industry has been witnessing multi-million dollar trade in recent times. With rapid innovation of the NFT market environment by technology, innovation, and decentralization, it is becoming hard to distinguish…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-01-19 Mayukh Mukhopadhyay , Kaushik Ghosh

Solana is an emerging blockchain platform, recognized for its high throughput and low transaction costs, positioning it as a preferred infrastructure for Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), and other Web 3.0…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Xiaoye Zheng , Zhiyuan Wan , David Lo , Difan Xie , Xiaohu Yang

Purpose: This paper aims to establish a fundamental and comprehensive understanding of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) by identifying and structuring common characteristics within a taxonomy. NFTs are hyped and increasingly marketed as essential…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Eduard Hartwich , Philipp Ollig , Gilbert Fridgen , Alexander Rieger

The rapid growth in popularity and hype surrounding digital assets such as art, video, and music in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has made them a lucrative investment opportunity, with NFT-based sales surpassing $25B in 2021 alone.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Sayak Saha Roy , Dipanjan Das , Priyanka Bose , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna , Shirin Nilizadeh

This work presents a concept and implementation for the secure storage and transfer of quality-relevant data of milled workpieces from online-quality assurance processes enabled by real-time simulation models. It utilises Non-Fungible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Nicolai Maisch , Shengjian Chen , Alexander Robertus , Samed Ajdinović , Armin Lechler , Alexander Verl , Oliver Riedel

Non-fungible tokens, NFT, have been used to record ownership of real estate, art, digital assets, and more recently to serve legal notice. They provide an important and accessible non-financial use of cryptocurrency's blockchain but are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Martha N. Kamkuemah , J. W. Sanders

Solana has quickly emerged as a popular platform for building decentralized applications (DApps), such as marketplaces for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). A key reason for its success are Solana's low transaction fees and high performance,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sven Smolka , Jens-Rene Giesen , Pascal Winkler , Oussama Draissi , Lucas Davi , Ghassan Karame , Klaus Pohl

Recently, the birth of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted great attention. NFTs are capable of representing users' ownership on the blockchain and have experienced tremendous market sales due to their popularity. Unfortunately, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Shuo Yang , Jiachi Chen , Zibin Zheng

With the rise of "Metaverse" and "Web 3.0", Non-Fungible Token (NFT) has emerged as a kind of pivotal digital asset, garnering significant attention. By the end of March 2024, more than 1.7 billion NFTs have been minted across various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Shuxun Wang , Yunfei Lei , Ziqi Zhang , Wei Liu , Haowei Liu , Li Yang , Wenjuan Li , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as a decentralized proof of ownership represent one of the main reasons why Ethereum is a disruptive technology. This paper presents the first systematic study of the interactions occurring in a number of NFT…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-26 S. Casale-Brunet , P. Ribeca , P. Doyle , M. Mattavelli

With the explosive development of decentralized finance, we witness a phenomenal growth in tokenization of all kinds of assets, including equity, funds, debt, and real estate. By taking advantage of blockchain technology, digital assets are…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-04-21 Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini Bamakan , Nasim Nezhadsistani , Omid Bodaghi , Qiang Qu