GraphSense (https://graphsense.info/) is a cryptoasset analytics platform emphasizing 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. GraphSense supports major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Zcash as well as Ethereum.

The GraphSense cryptoasset analytics platform can be used for interactive investigations of monetary flows and, more importantly, for executing advanced analytics tasks using a standard data science tool stack. It provides a growing set of open-source components that can be applied in context of scientific investigations in academia. The platform provides a possible response to emerging compliance and regulation challenges for businesses and organizations dealing with cryptoassets.

Like commercial offerings, GraphSense provides a dashboard for basic, interactive investigations, which lowers the entry barrier for non-expert users. GraphSense provides the flexibility to perform analytics tasks on pre-computed graph abstractions. The platform provides access to the so-called address and entity graphs, which reflect the main structural elements of cryptoasset ecosystems: actors, who interact with each other and are linked together through cryptoasset transfers.

Collaborative Tag Sharing

GraphSense introduces the notion of TagPacks, which support collaborative collection and provenance-aware curation of attribution tags, which are valuable data points in most analytics tasks.

Attribution tags are any form of context information that can be attributed to an address, transaction, or cluster (e.g. name of an exchange hosting the associated wallet). The strength of the attribution approach lies in combining address clusters with attribution tags: a tag attributed to a single address being controlled by some cryptoasset service, which typically forms a large address cluster, can easily de-anonymize hundreds of thousands of addresses.

GraphSense adopted Git for storing and publishing TagPacks. Git automatically creates hashes over each file and allows, if required, users to digitally sign their contents after each commit. This allows a collaborative approach and easy sharing of TagPacks.

GraphSense projects

GraphSense is developed under the leadership of the AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, with funding from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency’s KIRAS program KRYPTOMONITOR.

Previously, it received funding from the KIRAS project VIRTCRIME, the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research innovation program (TITANIUM), and the FFG ICT of the Future Project GraphSense.

Links

GraphSense Projektwebsite: https://graphsense.info/