publications

publications in reversed chronological order.

2026

  1. PETS
    Pseudonymity at Risk: Linkage Attacks on Blockchain Users with Off-Chain Cues
    Alexander Smirnov, Stefan Schmid, and Friedhelm Victor
    Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2026
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  2. AFT
    Friend or Foe? Anomalous Peers in Monero’s P2P Network
    Yannik Kopyciok, Stefan Schmid, and Friedhelm Victor
    In 7th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2026), 2026
    DOI PDF Code

2025

  1. FC Workshops
    Monero’s Decentralized P2P Exchanges: Functionality, Adoption, and Privacy Risks
    Yannik Kopyciok, Friedhelm Victor, and Stefan Schmid
    In Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2025 International Workshops, 2025
    DOI PDF

2024

  1. ICBC
    Monero Traceability Heuristics: Wallet Application Bugs and the Mordinal-P2Pool Perspective
    Nada Hammad, and Friedhelm Victor
    In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2024
    DOI PDF
  2. Digital Finance
    The Technology of Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
    Raphael Auer, Bernhard Haslhofer, Stefan Kitzler, and 2 more authors
    Digital Finance, 2024
    DOI

2023

  1. PhD Thesis
    Uncovering fraudulent activities in ethereum-based cryptoassets with distributed ledger analytics
    Friedhelm Victor
    Dissertation, Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, 2022, 2023
    DOI PDF
  2. BIS
    The Technology of Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
    Raphael Auer, Bernhard Haslhofer, Stefan Kitzler, and 2 more authors
    2023
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  3. TWEB
    Disentangling Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Compositions
    Stefan Kitzler, Friedhelm Victor, Pietro Saggese, and 1 more author
    ACM Transactions on the Web, 2023
    PDF Video Code

2022

  1. NeurIPS
    Chartalist: Labeled Graph Datasets for UTXO and Account-based Blockchains
    Kiarash Shamsi, Friedhelm Victor, Murat Kantarcioglu, and 2 more authors
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022
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  2. FC Workshops
    A Systematic Investigation of DeFi Compositions in Ethereum
    Stefan Kitzler, Friedhelm Victor, Pietro Saggese, and 1 more author
    In Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2022 International Workshops, 2022
    DOI

2021

  1. KDD
    Alphacore: Data Depth Based Core Decomposition
    Friedhelm Victor, Cuneyt G. Akcora, Yulia R. Gel, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Virtual Event, Singapore, 2021
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  2. WWW
    Detecting and Quantifying Wash Trading on Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchanges
    Friedhelm Victor, and Andrea Marie Weintraud
    In Proceedings of The Web Conference, 2021
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  3. FC
    Cross-Layer Deanonymization Methods in the Lightning Protocol
    Matteo Romiti, Friedhelm Victor, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, and 3 more authors
    In Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2021
    DOI Video
  4. Computer
    A Taxonomy for Distributed Ledger Analytics
    Friedhelm Victor, Peter Ruppel, and Axel Küpper
    Computer, 2021

2020

  1. FC
    Address Clustering Heuristics for Ethereum
    Friedhelm Victor
    In Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2020
    DOI PDF Code
  2. Tracing manufacturing processes using blockchain-based token compositions
    Martin Westerkamp, Friedhelm Victor, and Axel Küpper
    Digital Communications and Networks, 2020
    DOI

2019

  1. ICDMW
    Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Schemes: Quantification and Detection
    Friedhelm Victor, and Tanja Hagemann
    In 2019 International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 2019
    DOI
  2. FC
    Measuring Ethereum-Based ERC20 Token Networks
    Friedhelm Victor, and Bianca Lüders
    In Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2019
    DOI

2018

  1. ICDMW
    Geofences on the Blockchain: Enabling Decentralized Location-based Services
    Friedhelm Victor, and Sebastian Zickau
    In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), Nov 2018
    DOI
  2. Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Traceability: Token Recipes Model Manufacturing Processes
    Martin Westerkamp, Friedhelm Victor, and Axel Küpper
    In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, Nov 2018
    DOI

2017

  1. UIC
    Smartphone-collected mobile network events for mobility modeling
    Friedhelm Victor, Sandro Rodriguez Garzon, and Axel Küpper
    In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Nov 2017
    DOI