BlockSci: Design and applications of a blockchain analysis platform

September 08, 2017 · Entered Twilight · 🏛 USENIX Security Symposium

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Authors Harry Kalodner, Steven Goldfeder, Alishah Chator, Malte Möser, Arvind Narayanan arXiv ID 1709.02489 Category cs.CR: Cryptography & Security Cross-listed cs.DB Citations 214 Venue USENIX Security Symposium Repository https://github.com/citp/BlockSci ⭐ 1389 Last Checked 1 month ago

Abstract

Analysis of blockchain data is useful for both scientific research and commercial applications. We present BlockSci, an open-source software platform for blockchain analysis. BlockSci is versatile in its support for different blockchains and analysis tasks. It incorporates an in-memory, analytical (rather than transactional) database, making it several hundred times faster than existing tools. We describe BlockSci's design and present four analyses that illustrate its capabilities. This is a working paper that accompanies the first public release of BlockSci, available at https://github.com/citp/BlockSci. We seek input from the community to further develop the software and explore other potential applications.