Securing the Ethereum from Smart Ponzi Schemes: Identification Using Static Features

Author:

Zheng Zibin1,Chen Weili2,Zhong Zhijie1,Chen Zhiguang3,Lu Yutong3

Affiliation:

1. School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, China

2. School of Information Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China

3. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Abstract

Malware detection approaches have been extensively studied for traditional software systems. However, the development of blockchain technology has promoted the birth of a new type of software system–decentralized applications. Composed of smart contracts, a type of application that implements the Ponzi scheme logic (called smart Ponzi schemes) has caused irreversible loss and hindered the development of blockchain technology. These smart contracts generally had a short life but involved a large amount of money. Whereas identification of these Ponzi schemes before causing financial loss has been significantly important, existing methods suffer from three main deficiencies, i.e., the insufficient dataset, the reliance on the transaction records, and the low accuracy. In this study, we first build a larger dataset. Then, a large number of features from multiple views, including bytecode, semantic, and developers, are extracted. These features are independent of the transaction records. Furthermore, we leveraged machine learning methods to build our identification model, i.e., Mul ti-view Cas cade Ensemble model (MulCas). The experiment results show that MulCas can achieve higher performance and robustness in the scope of our dataset. Most importantly, the proposed method can identify smart Ponzi scheme at the creation time.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Software

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