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Understanding (Mis)Behavior on the EOSIO Blockchain

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Lei Wu,

Xuxian JiangAuthors Info & Claims

SIGMETRICS '20: Abstracts of the 2020 SIGMETRICS/Performance Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Pages 83 - 84

https://doi.org/10.1145/3393691.3394223

Published: 08 June 2020 Publication History

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EOSIO has become one of the most popular blockchain platforms since its mainnet launch in June 2018. In contrast to the traditional PoW-based systems (e.g., Bitcoin and Ethereum), which are limited by low throughput, EOSIO is the first high throughput Delegated Proof of Stake system that has been widely adopted by many decentralized applications. Although EOSIO has millions of accounts and billions of transactions, little is known about its ecosystem, especially related to security and fraud. In this paper, we perform a large-scale measurement study of the EOSIO blockchain and its associated DApps. We gather a large-scale dataset of EOSIO and characterize activities including money transfers, account creation and contract invocation. Using our insights, we then develop techniques to automatically detect bots and fraudulent activity. We discover thousands of bot accounts (over 30% of the accounts in the platform) and a number of real-world attacks (301 attack accounts). By the time of our study, 80 attack accounts we identified have been confirmed by DApp teams, causing 828,824 EOS tokens losses (roughly \$2.6 million) in total.

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2019. Bots Index. https://github.com/hashbaby-com/eos-hall-of-shame/tree/master/bots.

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Yuheng Huang, Haoyu Wang, Lei Wu, Gareth Tyson, Xiapu Luo, Run Zhang, Xuanzhe Liu, Gang Huang, and Xuxian Jiang. 2020. Understanding (Mis)Behavior on the EOSIO Blockchain. Proc. ACM Meas. Anal.Comput. Syst., Vol. 4, 2 (2020).

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Understanding (Mis)Behavior on the EOSIO Blockchain
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
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2. Security and privacy
  1. Intrusion/anomaly detection and malware mitigation
  2. Software and application security
    1. Web application security

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SIGMETRICS '20: Abstracts of the 2020 SIGMETRICS/Performance Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

June 2020

124 pages

ISBN:9781450379854

DOI:10.1145/3393691

General Chair:
Edmund Yeh
Northeastern University, USA
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University of California, Irvine, USA
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Y.C. Tay
National University of Singapore, Singapore

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