Profit or Deceit? Mitigating Pump and Dump in DeFi via Graph and Contrastive Learning

Discover our latest research on detecting pump-and-dump schemes in decentralised finance using PUMPWATCHER, a novel framework combining graph neural networks and contrastive learning. Analysing over 924,000 Uniswap transactions from December 2022, the study demonstrates PUMPWATCHER’s ability to identify market manipulation with 92.3% balanced accuracy, significantly reducing false detections.

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The findings highlight a breakthrough in real-time fraud detection, paving the way for more secure and trustworthy DeFi ecosystems.

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