Congratulations! Dr Daniel Luo, Assistant Professor of COMP and his research team received a Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2018 for their paper titled “Understanding Ethereum via Graph Analysis”.
Being the largest blockchain with the capability of executing smart contracts, Ethereum has attracted wide attention and its market capitalisation has reached USD56 billion. Moreover, around 600K smart contracts have been deployed to Ethereum. Unfortunately, little is known about the characteristics of its users, smart contracts, and the relationships among them. In this paper, Dr Luo and his research team conducted the first systematic study on Ethereum by leveraging graph analysis to characterise three major activities on Ethereum, namely money transfer, smart contract creation, and smart contract invocation. A new approach was designed to collect all transaction data and some new observations were discovered. New approaches were also proposed based on cross-graph analysis to address two security issues in Ethereum.
IEEE INFOCOM is a top ranked conference on networking in the research community. It solicits research papers describing significant and innovative research contributions to the field of computer and data communications networks. Out of 1606 submissions this year, only three papers were selected as the best papers.
