CRII: SaTC: Identifying Fraud in the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem

CRII：SaTC：识别加密货币生态系统中的欺诈行为

• 批准号: 1849729
• 负责人: Patrick Bridges
• 金额: $ 17.46万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1849729&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CRII; SaTC; Identifying; Fraud; Cryptocurrency

This project will advance understanding of how cybercrime has been able to flourish in the emerging cryptocurrency economy. Research has revealed cybercrime in the cryptocurrency economy, and the rate of fraud has seemed to increase. By understanding the incentives for crime and by modeling effective regulation, this research will make progress towards upending cryptocurrency-based crime. The project will collect data towards understanding how the underlying incentives work to cause fraudulent behavior and how the ecosystem perpetuates fraud. This work aims to influence public policy on cryptocurrencies, making the cryptocurrency ecosystem safer for consumers. The project will train students in this research area and produce course materials. The project seeks to correct the information asymmetry in the current cryptocurrency ecosystem, whereby consumers cannot tell the difference between a fraud and a legitimate business. There are two parts to this project. The first part will analyze one particular sector of the ecosystem that seems to be rife with speculation: alternative currencies and the corresponding currency exchanges listing the currencies. Each needs the other to be profitable: currencies need to be listed on an exchange to be worth money, and exchanges need currencies to be listed on them to extract fees from their users executing trades and (often) listing fees for each currency. The second part will collect social network data on cryptocurrency-related services at large in order to learn which services have a high probability of being scams and what indicators are correlated with this. The work will compare the propagation of information about legitimate industries and frauds to work towards differentiating the two. The project will take a longitudinal approach towards modeling how the cryptocurrency ecosystem has evolved into its current state, and it will continue to adapt the models as criminals adapt.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将进一步了解网络犯罪如何在新兴的加密货币经济中蓬勃发展。研究显示，加密货币经济中存在网络犯罪，欺诈率似乎有所上升。通过了解犯罪的动机和建立有效的监管模型，这项研究将在颠覆基于加密货币的犯罪方面取得进展。该项目将收集数据，以了解潜在的激励机制如何导致欺诈行为，以及生态系统如何使欺诈行为持续下去。这项工作旨在影响加密货币的公共政策，使加密货币生态系统对消费者更安全。该项目将在这一研究领域对学生进行培训，并编写教材。该项目旨在纠正当前加密货币生态系统中的信息不对称，即消费者无法区分欺诈和合法企业之间的区别。这个项目有两个部分。第一部分将分析生态系统中似乎充斥着投机的一个特定部门：替代货币和相应的货币交易所。每一个都需要另一个有利可图：货币需要在交易所上市才有价值，而交易所需要在交易所上市的货币，以便从执行交易的用户那里收取费用，并（通常）收取每种货币的上市费用。第二部分将收集加密货币相关服务的社交网络数据，以了解哪些服务有很高的诈骗概率，以及哪些指标与此相关。这项工作将比较关于合法行业和欺诈行为的信息传播，以努力区分两者。该项目将采取纵向方法来模拟加密货币生态系统如何演变到目前的状态，并将随着犯罪分子的适应而继续调整模型。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Cryptocurrency Fraud and Code Sharing Data Set and Analysis Code

加密货币欺诈和代码共享数据集和分析代码

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7268194
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Zenodo
• 作者: Haskins, Keira;Vasek, Marie;Bridges, Patrick
• 通讯作者: Bridges, Patrick

An examination of the cryptocurrency pump-and-dump ecosystem

对加密货币拉高抛售生态系统的检查

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102506
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Information Processing & Management
• 影响因子: 8.6
• 作者: Hamrick, J.T.;Rouhi, Farhang;Mukherjee, Arghya;Feder, Amir;Gandal, Neil;Moore, Tyler;Vasek, Marie
• 通讯作者: Vasek, Marie