A systematic literature review of blockchain and smart contract development: Techniques, tools, and open challenges

A Vacca, A Di Sorbo, CA Visaggio, G Canfora - Journal of Systems and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Blockchain platforms and languages for writing smart contracts are becoming increasingly
popular. However, smart contracts and blockchain applications are developed through non …

Blockchain security: A survey of techniques and research directions

J Leng, M Zhou, JL Zhao, Y Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain, an emerging paradigm of secure and shareable computing, is a systematic
integration of 1) chain structure for data verification and storage, 2) distributed consensus …

Transaction-based classification and detection approach for Ethereum smart contract

T Hu, X Liu, T Chen, X Zhang, X Huang, W Niu… - Information Processing …, 2021 - Elsevier
Blockchain technology brings innovation to various industries. Ethereum is currently the
second blockchain platform by market capitalization, it's also the largest smart contract …

Heterogeneous network representation learning approach for ethereum identity identification

Y Wang, Z Liu, J Xu, W Yan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, network representation learning has been widely used to mine and analyze
network characteristics, and it is also applied to blockchain, but most of the embedding …

A comprehensive survey of blockchain: From theory to IoT applications and beyond

M Wu, K Wang, X Cai, S Guo, M Guo… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an innovated and revolutionized technology, blockchain has been applied in many fields,
such as cryptocurrency, food traceability, identity management, or even market prediction …

Analysis of cryptocurrency transactions from a network perspective: An overview

J Wu, J Liu, Y Zhao, Z Zheng - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
As one of the most important and famous applications of blockchain technology,
cryptocurrency has attracted extensive attention recently. Empowered by blockchain …

Pyramid: A layered sharding blockchain system

Z Hong, S Guo, P Li, W Chen - IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sharding can significantly improve the blockchain scalability, by dividing nodes into small
groups called shards that can handle transactions in parallel. However, all existing sharding …

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 …

Detection of illicit accounts over the Ethereum blockchain

S Farrugia, J Ellul, G Azzopardi - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
The recent technological advent of cryptocurrencies and their respective benefits have been
shrouded with a number of illegal activities operating over the network such as money …

A survey of state-of-the-art on blockchains: Theories, modelings, and tools

H Huang, W Kong, S Zhou, Z Zheng… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
To draw a roadmap of current research activities of the blockchain community, we first
conduct a brief overview of state-of-the-art blockchain surveys published in the past 5 years …