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From Hype to Collapse: Investigating Rug Pull Scams on Solana
Jiaxin Chen, Ziwei Li, Zigui Jiang +4
Solana has experienced rapid growth due to its high performance and low transaction costs, but the extremely low barrier to token issuance has also enabled widespread Rug Pulls. Un…
RISKTAGGER: Evidence-Guided LLM Agent for Post-Incident Forensic Analysis of Money Laundering in Web3
Dan Lin, Yanli Ding, Weipeng Zou +5
Cryptocurrency money-laundering forensic analysis after Web3 incidents faces challenges such as fragmented evidence, expanding transaction paths, and cross-chain discontinuity. Exi…
Satellite: Detecting and Analyzing Smart Contract Vulnerabilities caused by Subcontract Misuse
Zeqin Liao, Yuhong Nan, Zixu Gao +4
Developers of smart contracts pervasively reuse subcontracts to improve development efficiency. Like any program language, such subcontract reuse may unexpectedly include, or intro…
Unnoticeable Community Deception via Multi-objective Optimization
Junyuan Fang, Huimin Liu, Yueqi Peng +3
Community detection in graphs is crucial for understanding the organization of nodes into densely connected clusters. While numerous strategies have been developed to identify thes…
BridgeShield: Risk-Aware Graph Modeling for Cross-Chain Bridge Attack Detection
Dan Lin, Shunfeng Lu, Ziyan Liu +7
Cross-chain bridges enable asset and state transfers across heterogeneous blockchains, but their complex cross-domain interactions introduce new attack surfaces that are difficult…
SolPhishHunter: Towards Detecting and Understanding Phishing on Solana
Ziwei Li, Zigui Jiang, Ming Fang +5
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…
Quantifying the Noise of Structural Perturbations on Graph Adversarial Attacks
Junyuan Fang, Han Yang, Haixian Wen +3
Graph neural networks have been widely utilized to solve graph-related tasks because of their strong learning power in utilizing the local information of neighbors. However, recent…
Mitigating the Structural Bias in Graph Adversarial Defenses
Junyuan Fang, Huimin Liu, Han Yang +3
In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great potential in addressing various graph structure-related downstream tasks. However, recent studies have found that cur…
Track and Trace: Automatically Uncovering Cross-chain Transactions in the Multi-blockchain Ecosystems
Dan Lin, Ziye Zheng, Jiajing Wu +5
Cross-chain technology enables seamless asset transfer and message-passing within decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystems, facilitating multi-chain coexistence in the current block…
XSema: A Novel Framework for Semantic Extraction of Cross-chain Transactions
Ziye Zheng, Jiajing Wu, Dan Lin +2
As the number of blockchain platforms continues to grow, the independence of these networks poses challenges for transferring assets and information across chains. Cross-chain brid…
Definition and Detection of Centralization Defects in Smart Contracts
Zewei Lin, Jiachi Chen, Jiajing Wu +2
In recent years, security incidents stemming from centralization defects in smart contracts have led to substantial financial losses. A centralization defect refers to any error, f…
Safeguarding Blockchain Ecosystem: Understanding and Detecting Attack Transactions on Cross-chain Bridges
Jiajing Wu, Kaixin Lin, Dan Lin +3
Cross-chain bridges are essential decentralized applications (DApps) to facilitate interoperability between different blockchain networks. Unlike regular DApps, the functionality o…
CONNECTOR: Enhancing the Traceability of Decentralized Bridge Applications via Automatic Cross-chain Transaction Association
Dan Lin, Jiajing Wu, Yuxin Su +5
Decentralized bridge applications are important software that connects various blockchains and facilitates cross-chain asset transfer in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem…
SmartAxe: Detecting Cross-Chain Vulnerabilities in Bridge Smart Contracts via Fine-Grained Static Analysis
Zeqin Liao, Yuhong Nan, Henglong Liang +4
With the increasing popularity of blockchain, different blockchain platforms coexist in the ecosystem (e.g., Ethereum, BNB, EOSIO, etc.), which prompts the high demand for cross-ch…
CRPWarner: Warning the Risk of Contract-related Rug Pull in DeFi Smart Contracts
Zewei Lin, Jiachi Chen, Zibin Zheng +3
In recent years, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) grows rapidly due to the development of blockchain technology and smart contracts. As of March 2023, the estimated global cryptocurren…
With Trail to Follow: Measurements of Real-world Non-fungible Token Phishing Attacks on Ethereum
Jingjing Yang, Jieli Liu, Jiajing Wu
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 growi…
Streaming phishing scam detection method on Ethereum
Wenjia Yu, Yijun Xia, Jieli Liu +1
Phishing is a widespread scam activity on Ethereum, causing huge financial losses to victims. Most existing phishing scam detection methods abstract accounts on Ethereum as nodes a…
Towards Understanding Crypto Money Laundering in Web3 Through the Lenses of Ethereum Heists
Dan Lin, Jiajing Wu, Qishuang Fu +4
With the overall momentum of the blockchain industry, crypto-based crimes are becoming more and more prevalent. After committing a crime, the main goal of cybercriminals is to obfu…
Does Money Laundering on Ethereum Have Traditional Traits?
Qishuang Fu, Dan Lin, Yiyue Cao +1
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 Ethereu…
Bubble or Not: Measurements, Analyses, and Findings on the Ethereum ERC721 and ERC1155 Non-fungible Token Ecosystem
Yixiang Tan, Zhiying Wu, Jieli Liu +3
The non-fungible token (NFT) is an emergent type of cryptocurrency that has garnered extensive attention since its inception. The uniqueness, indivisibility and humanistic value of…
RiskProp: Account Risk Rating on Ethereum via De-anonymous Score and Network Propagation
Dan Lin, Jiajing Wu, Qishuang Fu +2
As one of the most popular blockchain platforms supporting smart contracts, Ethereum has caught the interest of both investors and criminals. Differently from traditional financial…
Financial Crimes in Web3-empowered Metaverse: Taxonomy, Countermeasures, and Opportunities
Jiajing Wu, Kaixin Lin, Dan Lin +3
At present, the concept of metaverse has sparked widespread attention from the public to major industries. With the rapid development of blockchain and Web3 technologies, the decen…
GANI: Global Attacks on Graph Neural Networks via Imperceptible Node Injections
Junyuan Fang, Haixian Wen, Jiajing Wu +3
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have found successful applications in various graph-related tasks. However, recent studies have shown that many GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial atta…
Time-aware Metapath Feature Augmentation for Ponzi Detection in Ethereum
Chengxiang Jin, Jiajun Zhou, Jie Jin +2
With the development of Web 3.0 which emphasizes decentralization, blockchain technology ushers in its revolution and also brings numerous challenges, particularly in the field of…