Ai-powered fraud detection in decentralized finance: A project life cycle perspective

B Luo, Z Zhang, Q Wang, A Ke, S Lu, B He - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Decentralized finance (DeFi) represents a novel financial system but faces significant fraud
challenges, leading to substantial losses. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) …

Financial crimes in web3-empowered metaverse: Taxonomy, countermeasures, and opportunities

J Wu, K Lin, D Lin, Z Zheng, H Huang… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Non-fungible token transactions: Data and challenges

JB Cho, S Serneels, DS Matteson - Data Science in Science, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Non-fungible tokens (NFT) have recently emerged as a novel blockchain-hosted financial
asset class that has attracted major transaction volumes. However, preprocessing and …

Performing wash trading on NFTs: Is the game worth the candle?

G Bonifazi, F Cauteruccio, E Corradini… - Big Data and Cognitive …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wash trading is considered a highly inopportune and illegal behavior in regulated markets.
Instead, it is practiced in unregulated markets, such as cryptocurrency or NFT (Non-Fungible …

GameFi: The perfect symbiosis of blockchain, tokens, DeFi, and NFTs?

J Proelss, S Sévigny, D Schweizer - International Review of Financial …, 2023 - Elsevier
GameFi is a portmanteau of “game” and “finance.” The concept involves blockchain games
that offer economic incentives to play, otherwise known as play-to-earn (P2E) games. We …

Non-fungible tokens, decentralized autonomous organizations, Web 3.0, and the metaverse in education: From university to metaversity

T Sutikno, AIB Aisyahrani - Journal of Education and …, 2023 - edulearn.intelektual.org
The pandemic has accelerated technological advances in higher education. Learning
management systems that make use of the persistent platform, a wide range of …

Miracle or mirage? a measurement study of nft rug pulls

J Huang, N He, K Ma, J **ao, H Wang - … of the ACM on Measurement and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
NFT rug pull is one of the most prominent type of NFT scam, whose definition is that the
developers of an NFT project abandon it and run away with investors' funds. Although they …

A deep dive into nft rug pulls

J Huang, N He, K Ma, J **ao, H Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.06108, 2023 - arxiv.org
NFT rug pull is one of the most prominent type of scam that the developers of a project
abandon it and then run away with investors' funds. Although they have drawn attention from …

The dark side of nfts: A large-scale empirical study of wash trading

S Chen, J Chen, J Yu, X Luo, Y Wang - Proceedings of the 15th Asia …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) have seen significant growth since they first captured public
attention in 2021. However, the NFT market is plagued by fake transactions and economic …

Exposing Stealthy Wash Trading on Automated Market Maker Exchanges

R Gan, L Wang, L Xue, X Lin - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Decentralized Finance (DeFi), a pivotal component of the emerging Web3 landscape, is
gaining popularity but remains vulnerable to market manipulations, such as wash trading …