Applying Social Network Analysis to Model and Handle a Cross-Blockchain Ecosystem

【Author】 Bonifazi, Gianluca; Cauteruccio, Francesco; Corradini, Enrico; Marchetti, Michele; Ursino, Domenico; Virgili, Luca

【Source】ELECTRONICS

【影响因子】2.690

【Abstract】In recent years, the huge growth in the number and variety of blockchains has prompted researchers to investigate the cross-blockchain scenario. In this setting, multiple blockchains coexist, and wallets can exchange data and money from one blockchain to another. The effective and efficient management of a cross-blockchain ecosystem is an open problem. This paper aims to address it by exploiting the potential of Social Network Analysis. This general objective is declined into a set of activities. First, a social network-based model is proposed to represent such a scenario. Then, a multi-dimensional and multi-view framework is presented, which uses such a model to handle a cross-blockchain scenario. Such a framework allows all the results found in the past research on Social Network Analysis to be applied to the cross-blockchain ecosystem. Afterwards, this framework is used to extract insights and knowledge patterns concerning the behavior of several categories of wallets in a cross-blockchain scenario. To verify the goodness of the proposed framework, it is applied on a real dataset derived from Multichain, in order to identify various user categories and their "modus operandi". Finally, a new centrality measure is proposed, which identifies the most significant wallets in the ecosytem. This measure considers several viewpoints, each of which addresses a specific aspect that may make a wallet more or less central in the cross-blockchain scenario. [Bonifazi, Gianluca; Cauteruccio, Francesco; Corradini, Enrico; Marchetti, Michele; Ursino, Domenico; Virgili, Luca] Polytech Univ Marche, Dept Informat Engn, I-60121 Ancona, Italy Marche Polytechnic University Ursino, D (通讯作者)，Polytech Univ Marche, Dept Informat Engn, I-60121 Ancona, Italy. d.ursino@univpm.it Virgili, Luca/0000-0003-1509-783X; Marchetti, Michele/0000-0003-3692-3600; Cauteruccio, Francesco/0000-0001-8400-1083 50 0 0 0 0 MDPI BASEL ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, CH-4052 BASEL, SWITZERLAND 2079-9292 ELECTRONICS-SWITZ Electronics MAR 2023 12 5 1086 10.3390/electronics12051086 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics12051086 34 Computer Science, Information Systems; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Physics, Applied Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) Computer Science; Engineering; Physics 9T3OM gold 2023-03-31 WOS:000946939600001

【Keywords】cross-blockchain ecosystem; Social Network Analysis; user behavior; wallet centrality; cross-blockchain money swaps; cross-blockchain data transfer

【发表时间】2023 MAR

【收录时间】2023-04-01

【文献类型】实证数据

【主题类别】

区块链治理-元分析-领域分析