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Billions of dollars are lost every year in DeFi platforms by transactions exploiting business logic or accounting vulnerabilities. Existing defenses focus on static code analysis, public mempool screening, attacker contract detection, or…

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Financial fraud refers to the act of obtaining financial benefits through dishonest means. Such behavior not only disrupts the order of the financial market but also harms economic and social development and breeds other illegal and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yuxin Dong , Jianhua Yao , Jiajing Wang , Yingbin Liang , Shuhan Liao , Minheng Xiao

In this paper, we present "Graph Feature Preprocessor", a software library for detecting typical money laundering patterns in financial transaction graphs in real time. These patterns are used to produce a rich set of transaction features…

Credit card fraud is a major issue nowadays, costing huge money and affecting trust in financial systems. Traditional fraud detection methods often fail to detect advanced and growing fraud techniques. This study focuses on using Graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Irin Sultana , Syed Mustavi Maheen , Naresh Kshetri , Md Nasim Fardous Zim

In the current context of accelerated globalization and digitalization, the complexity and uncertainty of financial markets are increasing, and the identification and prevention of economic risks have become a key link in maintaining the…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-20 Xin Zhang , Zhen Xu , Yue Liu , Mengfang Sun , Tong Zhou , Wenying Sun

Credit exposure in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is often implicit and token-mediated, creating a dense web of inter-protocol dependencies. Thus, a shock to one token may result in significant and uncontrolled contagion effects. As the DeFi…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Aijie Shu , Wenbin Wu , Gbenga Ibikunle , Fengxiang He

Technological advancements in cryptocurrency markets have increased accessibility for investors, but concurrently exposed them to the risks of market manipulations. Existing fraud detection mechanisms typically rely on machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Lidia Losavio , Luca Persia , Madan Sathe , Dimosthenis Pasadakis

With the rapid growth of e-commerce, online payment fraud has become increasingly complex, posing serious threats to financial security and consumer trust. Traditional detection methods often struggle to capture the intricate relational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-15 RuiHan Luo , Nanxi Wang , Xiaotong Zhu

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been the target of numerous profit-driven crimes, but the prevalence and cumulative impact of these crimes have not yet been assessed. This study provides a comprehensive assessment of profit-driven crimes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Catherine Carpentier-Desjardins , Masarah Paquet-Clouston , Stefan Kitzler , Bernhard Haslhofer

Automated Market Makers (AMMs), as a core infrastructure of decentralized finance (DeFi), uniquely drive on-chain asset pricing through a deterministic reserve ratio mechanism. Unlike traditional markets, AMM price dynamics is triggered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Huaiyu Jia , Jiehshun You , Yizhi Luo , Jingyu Liu , Shuo Sun

Within just four years, the blockchain-based Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem has accumulated a peak total value locked (TVL) of more than 253 billion USD. This surge in DeFi's popularity has, unfortunately, been accompanied by many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Liyi Zhou , Xihan Xiong , Jens Ernstberger , Stefanos Chaliasos , Zhipeng Wang , Ye Wang , Kaihua Qin , Roger Wattenhofer , Dawn Song , Arthur Gervais

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a rapidly evolving segment of blockchain technology that enables a transformative approach to financial services through Web3 applications. By leveraging smart contracts, DeFi allows developers to build…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Ignat Melnikov , Roman Vlasov , Vladimir Gorgadze , Andrey Seoev , Yury Yanovich

We explore the adoption of graph representation learning (GRL) algorithms to investigate similarities across services offered by Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols. Following existing literature, we use Ethereum transaction data to…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-04-25 Junliang Luo , Stefan Kitzler , Pietro Saggese

In this work, we study the problem of decentralized multi-agent perimeter defense that asks for computing actions for defenders with local perceptions and communications to maximize the capture of intruders. One major challenge for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Elijah S. Lee , Lifeng Zhou , Alejandro Ribeiro , Vijay Kumar

Graph-based Neural Networks (GNNs) are recent models created for learning representations of nodes (and graphs), which have achieved promising results when detecting patterns that occur in large-scale data relating different entities. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ronald D. R. Pereira , Fabrício Murai

The scaled Web 3.0 digital economy, represented by decentralized finance (DeFi), has sparked increasing interest in the past few years, which usually relies on blockchain for token transfer and diverse transaction logic. However, illegal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Shuyi Miao , Wangjie Qiu , Hongwei Zheng , Qinnan Zhang , Xiaofan Tu , Xunan Liu , Yang Liu , Jin Dong , Zhiming Zheng

Money laundering has become one of the most relevant criminal activities in modern societies, as it causes massive financial losses for governments, banks and other institutions. Detecting such activities is among the top priorities when it…

Graph-based fraud detection has heretofore received considerable attention. Owning to the great success of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), many approaches adopting GNNs for fraud detection has been gaining momentum. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Zhixun Li , Dingshuo Chen , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu

Financial transaction fraud prevention faces challenges such as complex relationship structures, concealed behavioral patterns, and dynamically changing data distribution. Discrimination models relying solely on independent sample features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yunfei Nie , Jiawei Wang , Ruobing Yan , Yuhan Wang , Zouxiaowei Ma , Yilun Wu

Anti-money laundering (AML) systems are important for protecting the global economy. However, conventional rule-based methods rely on domain knowledge, leading to suboptimal accuracy and a lack of scalability. Graph neural networks (GNNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Chung-Hoo Poon , James Kwok , Calvin Chow , Jang-Hyeon Choi