BlockchainSpider

Blockchain spiders aim to collect data of public chains, including:

• Transaction subgraph: the subgraph with a center of specific address
• Label data: the labels of address or transaction
• Block data: the blocks on chains
• ...

For more info in detail, see our documentation.

🚀Getting Started

🔧Install

Let's start with the following command:

git clone https://github.com/wuzhy1ng/BlockchainSpider.git

And then install the dependencies:

pip install scrapy
pip install selenium
pip install networkx

For more information, please refer to the document in ./docs/html/index.html.

🔍Crawl a transaction subgraph

We will demonstrate how to crawl a transaction subgraph of KuCoin hacker on Ethereum and trace the illegal fund of the hacker!

Run on this command as follow:

scrapy crawl txs.eth.ttr -a source=0xeb31973e0febf3e3d7058234a5ebbae1ab4b8c23

You can find the transaction data on ./data/0xeb3...c23.csv on finished.

Try to import the transaction data and the importance of the addresses in the subgraph ./data/importance/0xeb3...c23.csv to Gephi.

The hacker is related to Tornado Cash, a mixing server, it shows that the hacker took part in money laundering!

💡Collect label data

In this section, we will demonstrate how to collect labeled addresses in OFAC sanctions list!

Run this command as follow:

scrapy crawl labels.ofac

You can find the label data on ./data/labels.ofac, each row of this file is a json object just like this:

{
    "net":"ETH",
    "label":"Entity",
    "info":{
        "uid":"30518",
        "address":"0x72a5843cc08275C8171E582972Aa4fDa8C397B2A",
        "first_name":null,
        "last_name":"SECONDEYE SOLUTION",
        "identities":[
            {
                "id_type":"Email Address",
                "id_number":"support@secondeyesolution.com"
            },
            {
                "id_type":"Email Address",
                "id_number":"info@forwarderz.com"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Note: Please indicate the source when using crawling labels.

🧱Collect block data

In this section, we will demonstrate how to collect block data in Ethereum!

Run this command as follow:

scrapy crawl blocks.eth

You can find the label data on ./data, in which:

• blocks.eth.meta saves the metadata for blocks, such as minter, timestamp and so on.
• blocks.eth.external saves the external transactions of blocks.

Each row of those files is a JSON object just like this:

{
    "difficulty":"0x400000000",
    "extraData":"0x11bbe8db4e347b4e8c937c1c8370e4b5ed33adb3db69cbdb7a38e1e50b1b82fa",
    "gasLimit":"0x1388",
    "gasUsed":"0x0",
    "hash":"0xd4e56740f876aef8c010b86a40d5f56745a118d0906a34e69aec8c0db1cb8fa3",
    "logsBloom":"0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
    "miner":"0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
    "mixHash":"0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
    "nonce":"0x0000000000000042",
    "number":"0x0",
    "parentHash":"0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
    "receiptsRoot":"0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421",
    "sha3Uncles":"0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347",
    "size":"0x21c",
    "stateRoot":"0xd7f8974fb5ac78d9ac099b9ad5018bedc2ce0a72dad1827a1709da30580f0544",
    "timestamp":"0x0",
    "totalDifficulty":"0x400000000",
    "transactionsRoot":"0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421",
    "uncles":[
    ]
}

❗Important tips

If you want to get the best performance of Blockchainspider, please read the settings of APIKeys and Cache.

🔬About TRacer

Please cite our paper (and the respective papers of the methods used) if you use this code in your own work:

@misc{wu2022tracer,
      title={TRacer: Scalable Graph-based Transaction Tracing for Account-based Blockchain Trading Systems}, 
      author={Zhiying Wu and Jieli Liu and Jiajing Wu and Zibin Zheng},
      year={2022},
      eprint={2201.05757},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CR}
}

Please execute the code in ./test to reproduce the experimental results in the paper.

• parameters.py: Parameter sensitivity experiment.
• compare.py: Comparative experiment.
• metrics.py: Export evaluation metrics.

For more information, please refer to ./test/README.md