4 papers
Stablecoins: Fundamentals, Emerging Issues, and Open Challenges
Ahmed Mahrous, Maurantonio Caprolu, Roberto Di Pietro
Stablecoins, with a capitalization exceeding 200 billion USD as of January 2025, have shown significant growth, with annual transaction volumes exceeding 10 trillion dollars in 202…
Characterizing Polkadot's Transactions Ecosystem: methodology, tools, and insights
Maurantonio Caprolu, Roberto Di Pietro, Flavio Lombardi +1
The growth potential of a crypto(currency) project can be measured by the use cases spurred by the underlying technology. However, these projects are usually distributed, with a we…
Watch Nearby! Privacy Analysis of the People Nearby Service of Telegram
Maurantonio Caprolu, Savio Sciancalepore, Aleksandar Grigorov +2
People Nearby is a service offered by Telegram that allows a user to discover other Telegram users, based only on geographical proximity. Nearby users are reported with a rough est…
A Novel Framework for the Analysis of Unknown Transactions in Bitcoin: Theory, Model, and Experimental Results
Maurantonio Caprolu, Matteo Pontecorvi, Matteo Signorini +2
Bitcoin (BTC) is probably the most transparent payment network in the world, thanks to the full history of transactions available to the public. Though, Bitcoin is not a fully anon…