The paper introduces a method to improve heuristic-based Bitcoin address clustering by using graph neural networks to generate contrastive embeddings. It releases a large Bitcoin transaction graph dataset, presents a learning framework that aligns embeddings with existing heuristics, and applies hierarchical clustering to refine clusters and detect suspicious merges. The approach offers a more modular and theoretically grounded way to analyze user-level activity on the blockchain.
By Hugo Schnoering, Roman Bresson, Michalis Vazirgiannis
arXiv:2607. 27370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sybil attackers are Blockchain actors that adopt the characteristics of regular users to exploit airdrops or influence governance.
By Micha{\l} Bartnicki, Jaros{\l}aw A. Chudziak
The paper presents a semi‑supervised learning framework for detecting illicit Bitcoin flows in Shared Send Mixers, using a large historical dataset of 163 million transactions. It demonstrates that the success of SSL depends on data quality rather than sheer volume, with high‑fidelity features such as KeyLinker address clustering and Shared Send Untangling complexity metrics achieving an F1 score of 0.84 on unlabeled data. The study also shows that common heuristics like One‑Time Change introduce noise, underscoring the importance of smarter feature engineering in blockchain forensics.
By Yekaterina Smolenkova, Nickolay Larionov, Nikolay Ivanov, Yury Yanovich
arXiv:2605. 26290v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Temporal signed networks (TSNs) model the time evolution of cooperative and adversarial relationships that arise in applications such as social media analysis, trust and reputation systems, and financial transaction networks.
By Derek Regier, Andrew Polyak, Aresh Dadlani, Khosro Salmani
arXiv:2604. 17420v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Money laundering poses severe risks to global financial systems, driving the widespread adoption of machine learning for transaction monitoring.
By Keyang Chen, Mingxuan Jiang, Yongsheng Zhao, Zeping Li, Zaiyuan Chen, Weiqi Luo, Zhixin Li, Sen Liu, Yinan Jing, Guangnan Ye, Xihong Wu, Hongfeng Chai
The paper presents a method for early detection of fraudulent memecoins (rug pulls) on the Solana blockchain, using a dataset of 6.4 million tokens collected over seven months. It shows that most rug pulls occur within an hour of launch and that classic machine learning models, especially Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), can reliably predict them using only the first five minutes of trading data. Cross‑platform data fusion between PumpFun and Raydium further improves detection by reducing domain shift.
arXiv:2605. 29526v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ever-evolving transaction patterns have significantly hindered anomaly detection on emerging cryptocurrency blockchains due to the vast number of addresses and diverse anomalous behaviors.
By Runang He, Tongya Zheng, Huiling Peng, Yuanyu Wan, Bingde Hu, Jiawei Chen, Canghong Jin, Mingli Song, Can Wang
arXiv:2608. 20271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid proliferation of memecoins on blockchain platforms has increased the risk of fraudulent activities, particularly rug pulls.
By Jianghai Li, Pavel Kuznetsov, Yury Yanovich, Konstantin Nott-Whaley, Igor Vodolazov
arXiv:2605. 12759v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Lightning Network (LN) is a second-layer protocol for Bitcoin designed to enable fast and cost-efficient off-chain transactions.
By Simone Antonelli, Vincent Davis, Harrison Rush, Anthony Potdevin, Jesse Shrader, Vikash Singh, Emanuele Rossi
Credit risk detection, particularly mitigating individual fraud, is crucial for maintaining the stability of digital financial ecosystems. Accurately identifying credit fraud among billions of users is critical for minimizing financial losses and safeguarding the sustainability of inclusive financial services.
The paper introduces FCom‑DICE, a feature‑aware perturbation method that rewires influential edges and adjusts node features to hide a target community from graph neural network (GNN) inference. It shows that concealment effectiveness depends on boundary connectivity and feature similarity, and that FCom‑DICE outperforms structure‑only DICE on synthetic and real networks such as Facebook, Wikipedia, and Bitcoin Transactions while preserving key structural and feature properties.
By Dalyapraz Manatova, Pablo Moriano, L. Jean Camp
arXiv:2607. 09704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present an exploratory benchmark and quantum-inspired modeling prototype for fraud screening in dynamic financial transaction graphs.
By Behnam Tonekaboni, Hiroshi Yamauchi