4 papers
Meme Coin Factories: Uncovering Large-Scale Manipulations on pump.fun
Nicolas Szwajcok, Taro Tsuchiya, Enze Liu +3
Once complex, creating and deploying a new cryptocurrency has become trivial. Coin launchpads now allow users to generate a new coin with merely a few clicks, at a minimal cost. La…
A Large-Scale Study of Telegram Bots
Taro Tsuchiya, Haoxiang Yu, Tina Marjanov +3
Telegram, initially a messaging app, has evolved into a platform where users can interact with various services through programmable applications, bots. Bots provide a wide range o…
Anatomy of a Digital Bubble: Lessons Learned from the NFT and Metaverse Frenzy
Daisuke Kawai, Kyle Soska, Bryan Routledge +2
In the past few years, "metaverse" and "non-fungible tokens (NFT)" have become buzzwords, and the prices of related assets have exhibited large fluctuations. Are those characterist…
Blockchain Address Poisoning
Taro Tsuchiya, Jin-Dong Dong, Kyle Soska +1
In many blockchains, e.g., Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), the primary representation used for wallet addresses is a hardly memorable 40-digit hexadecimal string. As a result,…