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Looking for a *postdoc*? Join us The Alan Turing Institute + Anna to explore centralisation / decentralisation interplay in the Token Economy. Amazing data, collab. w PayPal (& more!), opportunity to help shape research. 2 yrs. Contact me for info. 1/2 cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/re…

Want to research NFTs? New dataset: + 4.7M NFTs, + 6.1M transactions. Dataset: osf.io/xnj3k/?view_on… Paper: nature.com/articles/s4159… Matt

NFT oligarchy? A study of 6.1M NFT trades finds a few folks at the center of the market 🐱 The top 10% of traders account for 85% of transactions & trade at least once 97% of all assets 🦍10% of buyer–seller pairs have the same volume as the remaining 90% nature.com/articles/s4159…

Well done to Elliptic for making it onto the #RegTech100 list. The full list is here: fintech.global/regtech100/ #RegTech #FinTech

Wow! Who would have guessed! trib.al/dHYc3mL

Happy to see this out as a preprint! "Macroscopic Properties of buyer-seller networks in online marketplaces" arxiv.org/pdf/2112.09065… Great *interdisciplinary* collaboration with Alex Teytelboym NetScience Andrea Baronchelli عبير and Jorn Boehnke Explainer thread to follow! 1/6

Reminder that you have *until Jan 3* to apply for this (very cool) postdoc position The Alan Turing Institute! Work with me and many others to understand the dynamics of (de)centralisation in socio-technical systems.

Wishing everyone the best this festive season #HappyHolidays

Cryptocurrency donations in support of the Ukrainian armed forces are soaring - with almost $400,000 received so far today. Learn more about the crypto-crowdfunding of the Russo-Ukrainian War, in this recent Elliptic blog: elliptic.co/blog/ukrainian…

Putin going through the binance KYC rn

So proud to announce that our NFT video is minted and you can buy it on OpenSea ! ...wait... We actually did't mint it 🤔🤔🤔 See the thread for a funny, and instructive, story 👇

The best kept secret in web3🤣

Our dataset containing 6.1 million trades of 4.7 million NFTs has been downloaded 700+ times, and we hope they can help even more researchers. Data: osf.io/wsnzr/?view_on… Paper: nature.com/articles/s4159… Awesome job by Matt.

A first comprehensive look at the darkmarkets ecosystem. We detected a fairly complex behavior! More on 👇

Our new working paper on NFTs is out ! Huge dataset analysed, clear results on the relationship between rarity and price. Have a look at it 👇

🚨Over $100 million worth of NFTs were publicly reported as stolen through scams between July 2021 and July 2022, netting perpetrators $300,000 per scam on average. Head to hubs.la/Q01kQTzZ0 to read our NFTs and Financial Crime Report. #nft #crypto #aml

“Heterogeneous rarity patterns drive price dynamics in NFT collections” is out. Successful collections share non-trivial rarity patterns. Investment-wise, rare NFTs are top. Rest is ~fungible (yep!) Data (1.4M NFTs, 3.7M sales): osf.io/7w9r6/ nature.com/articles/s4159…

New out! An analysis of unprecedented breadth quantifies the online illicit trade of COVID-19 vaccines. Results corroborate concerns by INTERPOL, Europol etc. + Dark markets also offered fake proofs of vaccination, guides to get gov aids, etc. 1/ journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…