학술논문

A Model for Detecting Cryptocurrency Transactions with Discernible Purpose
Document Type
Conference
Source
2019 Eleventh International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN) Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 2019 Eleventh International Conference on. :713-717 Jul, 2019
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Cryptocurrency
Blockchain
Feature extraction
Mathematical model
Clustering algorithms
Anomaly detection
Ethereum
Anti-Money Laundering
Smart Contract
Machine Learning
Language
ISSN
2165-8536
Abstract
The perpetration of financial fraud progresses parallel with the innovation in the field of finance. Consequently, the emergence of the blockchain technology has also manifested financial transaction obfuscation through the use of de-anonymization of the blockchain technology. This study identifies the suspicious transaction from Binance, an open-source cryptocurrency, through the means of defining and detecting the cryptocurrency wallets. By drawing the metadata of 38,526 wallets from etherscan.io, this study investigates the transactions with discernible purpose. This study performed an unsupervised learning expectation maximization (EM) algorithm to cluster the data set. Based on the features engineered from the unsupervised learning, we performed an anomaly detection using Random Forest (RF). In this study, we offered an insight into labeling the cryptocurrency wallets by providing a model for detecting the cryptocurrency with anomalous transactions. We advocate that labeling the wallets with discernible transactions may help financial institutions, private sectors, financial intelligence, and government agencies identify and detect the transactions with illicit activities.