GraphSense is a cryptoasset analytics platform with an emphasis on full data sovereignty, algorithmic transparency, and scalability. GraphSense is open source and free. It provides a dashboard for interactive investigations and, more importantly, full data control for executing advanced analytics tasks.
Supported Assets
GraphSense supports major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Zcash as well as Ethereum.
FEATURES
Cross-currency search
Search by address, tag, transaction or block in several cryptocurrency ledgers.
Traverse transactions
Navigate in transaction network abstractions computed from various ledgers.
Inspect metadata
Inspect statistical properties of nodes and edges.
Find paths
Automatically search for transaction paths connecting two nodes.
Programmable
Support for data-driven analytics via the REST API.
BlockSci integration
GraphSense makes use of BlockSci for parsing blockchains, and filtering CoinJoins.
Future-proof
Built on Apache Spark and Cassandra for horizontal scalability.
Open source
The complete software stack is open source and MIT licensed.
Examples
An example Bitcoin address, its connections and statistics.
System Description / White paper
@article{Haslhofer:2021a,
title = {GraphSense: A General-Purpose Cryptoasset Analytics Platform},
author = {Bernhard Haslhofer and Rainer Stütz and Matteo Romiti and Ross King},
year = {2021},
journal = {Arxiv pre-print},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.13613}
}
Publications
- Romiti, M., Victor, F., Moreno-Sanchez, P., Nordholt, P., Haslhofer, B., & Maffei, M. (2021). Cross-layer deanonymization methods in the lightning protocol. Financial cryptography and data security (FC 2021)
- Stütz, R., Gaži, P., Haslhofer, B., & Illum, J. (2020). Stake shift in major cryptocurrencies: An empirical study. Financial cryptography and data security (FC 2020).
- Paquet-Clouston, M., Romiti, M., Haslhofer, B., Charvat, T. Spams meet Cryptocurrencies: Sextortion in the Bitcoin Ecosystem Advances in Financial Technologies, 2019.
- Romiti, M., Judmayer, A., Zamyatin, A., Haslhofer, B. A Deep Dive into Bitcoin Mining Pools: An Empirical Analysis of Mining Shares. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, 2019.
- Paquet-Clouston, M., Haslhofer, B., & Dupont, B. Ransomware payments in the bitcoin ecosystem. Journal of Cybersecurity, 5 (1).
- Filtz, E., Polleres, A., Karl, R., Haslhofer, B.: Evolution of the Bitcoin Address Graph - An Exploratory Longitudinal Study. International Data Science Conference (DSC 2017), Salzburg, Austria, 2017.