Discovering Persistent Behavioural Patterns for Interpretable Blockchain Forensics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12864v1
• Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:23:28 GMT
• Title: Discovering Persistent Behavioural Patterns for Interpretable Blockchain Forensics
• Abstract summary: This research proposes a scalable, application-agnostic framework for behavioural pattern discovery from large-scale blockchain activity.<n>It constructs sentences enriched with contract, token and market context, then applies a two-step embedding process.<n>An interpretable behavioural profiler characterizes communities through behavioural motifs, routines, temporal dynamics, entity exposure, and suspiciousness evidence.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Public blockchain data enables large-scale DeFi-related analysis, but many existing approaches are application-specific, difficult to scale, or hard to interpret. This research proposes a scalable, application-agnostic framework for \emph{persistent behavioural pattern discovery} from large-scale blockchain activity. It constructs behaviour sentences enriched with contract, token and market context, then applies a two-step embedding process: sentence-level embeddings capture individual actions, while sequence-level embeddings capture user behaviour over time. An interpretable behavioural profiler characterizes discovered communities through behavioural motifs, routines, temporal dynamics, entity exposure, and suspiciousness evidence. Evaluation on Ethereum using over 30 million transactions shows that the framework uncovers both routine and malicious behavioural patterns, including decentralised exchange (DEX) trading, NFT activity, phishing, bot operations, oracle manipulation, and rug-pull schemes. Importantly, many patterns remain stable across independent observation windows, enabling the identification of long-term behaviours beyond a single analysis period. The proposed framework combines scalability, interpretability, and persistence analysis, supporting blockchain forensic investigation, behavioural attribution, and threat discovery.

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