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How Reliable Is the Multi-Input Heuristic for Bitcoin Address Clustering in Law Enforcement Contexts?
Leopold Müller, Jana Elsner, Thomas Niedermayer +4
Address clustering is an important technique in blockchain forensics, widely employed by law enforcement to trace illicit crypto asset flows. The multi-input heuristic (MIH), which…
Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies
Rainer Stütz, Nicholas Stifter, Melitta Dragaschnig +2
It is well known that reusing cryptocurrency addresses undermines privacy. This also applies if the same addresses are used in different cryptocurrencies. Nevertheless, cross-chain…
Linking Cryptoasset Attribution Tags to Knowledge Graph Entities: An LLM-based Approach
Régnier Avice, Bernhard Haslhofer, Zhidong Li +1
Attribution tags form the foundation of modern cryptoasset forensics. However, inconsistent or incorrect tags can mislead investigations and even result in false accusations. To ad…
Detecting Financial Bots on the Ethereum Blockchain
Thomas Niedermayer, Pietro Saggese, Bernhard Haslhofer
The integration of bots in Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) fosters efficiency and automation. However, their use is also associated with predatory trading and market manipul…
Increasing the Efficiency of Cryptoasset Investigations by Connecting the Cases
Bernhard Haslhofer, Christiane Hanslbauer, Michael Fröwis +1
Law enforcement agencies are confronted with a rapidly growing number of cryptoasset-related cases, often redundantly investigating the same cases without mutual knowledge or share…
Mapping the DeFi crime landscape: an evidence-based picture
Catherine Carpentier-Desjardins, Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Stefan Kitzler +1
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 p…