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Blockchain Abnormal Transaction Behavior Analysis: a Survey

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Blockchain technology has been known to the public since cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin were introduced. While blockchain technology is being developed and used by researchers, the technology is also used to conduct abnormal transaction behaviors, such as money laundering and fraud. After understanding a large amount of research data, this paper summarizes and analyzes the abnormal trading behaviors in blockchains from the basic characteristics of smart contracts and the topology of blockchain networks. These works provide a reference direction for future researchers.

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This work is supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2020YFB1006002)

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    HuaLong Han, YuPeng Chen, ChenYing Guo & Yin Zhang

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Han, H., Chen, Y., Guo, C., Zhang, Y. (2021). Blockchain Abnormal Transaction Behavior Analysis: a Survey. In: Dai, HN., Liu, X., Luo, D.X., Xiao, J., Chen, X. (eds) Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems. BlockSys 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1490. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7993-3_5

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