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Ethereum's scalability has been a major concern due to its limited transaction throughput and high fees. To address these limitations, Polygon has emerged as a sidechain solution that facilitates asset transfers between Ethereum and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Tao Yan , Chuanshan Huang , Claudio J. Tessone

Ethereum smart contracts have recently drawn a considerable amount of attention from the media, the financial industry and academia. With the increase in popularity, malicious users found new opportunities to profit by deceiving newcomers.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Ramiro Camino , Christof Ferreira Torres , Mathis Baden , Radu State

Blockchain provides the unique and accountable channel for financial forensics by mining its open and immutable transaction data. A recent surge has been witnessed by training machine learning models with cryptocurrency transaction data for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Youssef Elmougy , Ling Liu

This study proposes a credit card fraud detection method based on Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network (HGNN) to address fraud in complex transaction networks. Unlike traditional machine learning methods that rely solely on numerical features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Qiuwu Sha , Tengda Tang , Xinyu Du , Jie Liu , Yixian Wang , Yuan Sheng

Recently, phishing scams have posed a significant threat to blockchains. Phishing detectors direct their efforts in hunting phishing addresses. Most of the detectors extract target addresses' transaction behavior features by random walking…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jinyin Chen , Haiyang Xiong , Dunjie Zhang , Zhenguang Liu , Jiajing Wu

In this paper, we analyze the Ethereum blockchain using the complex networks modeling framework. Accounts acting on the blockchain are represented as nodes, while the interactions among these accounts, recorded on the blockchain, are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Stefano Ferretti , Gabriele D'Angelo

In recent years, phishing scams have become the most serious type of crime involved in Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain platform. The existing phishing scams detection technology on Ethereum mostly uses traditional machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Sijia Li , Gaopeng Gou , Chang Liu , Chengshang Hou , Zhenzhen Li , Gang Xiong

In this work, we consider community detection in blockchain networks. We specifically take the Bitcoin network and Ethereum network as two examples, where community detection serves in different ways. For the Bitcoin network, we modify the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Sissi Xiaoxiao Wu , Zixian Wu , Shihui Chen , Gangqiang Li , Shengli Zhang

Since the inception of permissionless blockchains with Bitcoin in 2008, it became apparent that their most well-suited use case is related to making the financial system and its advantages available to everyone seamlessly without depending…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-06-16 Georgios Palaiokrassas , Sandro Scherrers , Iason Ofeidis , Leandros Tassiulas

In e-commerce industry, graph neural network methods are the new trends for transaction risk modeling.The power of graph algorithms lie in the capability to catch transaction linking network information, which is very hard to be captured by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hang Yin , Zitao Zhang , Zhurong Wang , Yilmazcan Ozyurt , Weiming Liang , Wenyu Dong , Yang Zhao , Yinan Shan

The anonymity of blockchain has accelerated the growth of illegal activities and criminal behaviors on cryptocurrency platforms. Although decentralization is one of the typical characteristics of blockchain, we urgently call for effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jie Shen , Jiajun Zhou , Yunyi Xie , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan

We present, GEM, the first heterogeneous graph neural network approach for detecting malicious accounts at Alipay, one of the world's leading mobile cashless payment platform. Our approach, inspired from a connected subgraph approach,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Ziqi Liu , Chaochao Chen , Xinxing Yang , Jun Zhou , Xiaolong Li , Le Song

The untraceability of transactions facilitated by Ethereum mixing services like Tornado Cash poses significant challenges to blockchain security and financial regulation. Existing methods for correlating mixing accounts suffer from limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Zheng Che , Taoyu Li , Meng Shen , Hanbiao Du , Liehuang Zhu

At online retail platforms, detecting fraudulent accounts and transactions is crucial to improve customer experience, minimize loss, and avoid unauthorized transactions. Despite the variety of different models for deep learning on graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Susie Xi Rao , Clémence Lanfranchi , Shuai Zhang , Zhichao Han , Zitao Zhang , Wei Min , Mo Cheng , Yinan Shan , Yang Zhao , Ce Zhang

Hypergraphs offer superior modeling capabilities for social networks, particularly in capturing group phenomena that extend beyond pairwise interactions in rumor propagation. Existing approaches in rumor source detection predominantly focus…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Le Cheng , Peican Zhu , Yangming Guo , Keke Tang , Chao Gao , Zhen Wang

Financial fraud has been growing exponentially in recent years. The rise of cryptocurrencies as an investment asset has simultaneously seen a parallel growth in cryptocurrency scams. To detect possible cryptocurrency fraud, and in…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-08 Andreas Anastasiou , Ivor Cribben

As the largest blockchain platform that supports smart contracts, Ethereum has developed with an incredible speed. Yet due to the anonymity of blockchain, the popularity of Ethereum has fostered the emergence of various illegal activities…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Qishuang Fu , Dan Lin , Yiyue Cao , Jiajing Wu

With the rapid advancement of Web 3.0 technologies, public blockchain platforms are witnessing the emergence of novel services designed to enhance user privacy and anonymity. However, the powerful untraceability features inherent in these…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Miao Shuyi , Qiu Wangjie , Tu Xiaofan , Li Yunze , Wen Yongxin , Zheng Zhiming

The rapid growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) has led to the widespread use of automated agents, or bots, within blockchain ecosystems like Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Solana. While these bots enhance market efficiency and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ahmed Mounsf Rafik Bendada , Abdelaziz Amara Korba , Mouhamed Amine Bouchiha , Yacine Ghamri-Doudane

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