Optimizing Blockchain Analysis: Tackling Temporality and Scalability with an Incremental Approach with Metropolis-Hastings Random Walks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12491v1
• Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:34:38 GMT
• Title: Optimizing Blockchain Analysis: Tackling Temporality and Scalability with an Incremental Approach with Metropolis-Hastings Random Walks
• Authors: Junliang Luo, Xue Liu,
• Abstract summary: Existing methods primarily focus on snapshots of transaction networks. We propose an incremental approach for random walk-based node representation learning in transaction networks. Potential applications include transaction network monitoring, the efficient classification of blockchain addresses for fraud detection or the identification of specialized address types within the network.
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• Abstract: Blockchain technology, with implications in the financial domain, offers data in the form of large-scale transaction networks. Analyzing transaction networks facilitates fraud detection, market analysis, and supports government regulation. Despite many graph representation learning methods for transaction network analysis, we pinpoint two salient limitations that merit more investigation. Existing methods predominantly focus on the snapshots of transaction networks, sidelining the evolving nature of blockchain transaction networks. Existing methodologies may not sufficiently emphasize efficient, incremental learning capabilities, which are essential for addressing the scalability challenges in ever-expanding large-scale transaction networks. To address these challenges, we employed an incremental approach for random walk-based node representation learning in transaction networks. Further, we proposed a Metropolis-Hastings-based random walk mechanism for improved efficiency. The empirical evaluation conducted on blockchain transaction datasets reveals comparable performance in node classification tasks while reducing computational overhead. Potential applications include transaction network monitoring, the efficient classification of blockchain addresses for fraud detection or the identification of specialized address types within the network.

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