Thoughts, Stories, Analysis

In this article, we show how a tool like Motif could be used to augment existing collected data and simplify the analysis of supply chains.

A walkthrough on using graph analytics to query for patterns of interest on Uniswap with the help of Bigquery, Neo4j and Motif.

Motif makes visual discovery on graph datasets simple and accessible to analysts, data scientists and managers.

Blockchain forensics of the TMPL rug pull. We traced how scammers masked the trail of funds through mixer, gambling platforms, and cash out stolen ETH through exchanges.

Co-founder Timothy Lin is featured on Channel News Asia's "On the Red Dot" and CNA 93.8. This post contains a transcript of the radio interview and CNA's documentary footage.

We evaluated 8 different graph visualisation packages in areas spanning performance, algorithms and components

Cyberattacks are often closely related to financial crime as the recent DOJ indictment charges show. We highlight key takeaways from the report.

An overview of applications of network analytics in the financial services industry for fraud detection, including entity link analysis and cycle detection algorithms.

An overview of how natural language processing methods (NLP) can be used to tag adverse news reports for cryptocurrency monitoring - a joint project with NUS Business Analytics students.

We present a guide to using machine learning for fraud detection, going through the advantages of ML vs rule-based methods, use cases and some important considerations to keep in mind when adopting such an approach.

Singapore/Hong Kong, 15 December 2020 – Cylynx has been recognised as 'One to Watch' in Blockchain Transaction Monitoring in the 3rd Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence 2020 in an online ceremony on 15 December 2020.

FinCEN has taken action against Larry Dean Harmon, founder and operator of bitcoin mixing service Helix and Coin Ninja for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. What can we learn about how suspicious entities operate and what do these guidelines mean to exchanges operating in the United States?

More than 2,000 suspicious transaction reports filed by nearly 90 financial institutions were leaked. We go through what are SARs, discuss the broader implications, analyse a sample dataset made public and share our thoughts on what it takes to fix the problem.

The G20 TechSprint initiative, aims to highlight the potential for technologies to resolve regulatory compliance and supervisory challenges. Team Cylynx is shortlisted as one of the finalists in the problem statement of monitoring AML/CFT risks on crypto assets.

With its total market cap exceeding $10 Billion in May 2020, stable coins are becoming increasingly popular with investors in the cryptocurrency space. In this article, we investigate 5 popular ERC20 stable coin - TUSD, USDT, PAX, USDC and BUSD. Through a combination of time series analysis and network plots, we characterise their growth trajectory and highlight key patterns and behaviours.

Blockchain forensics of the Upbit hack. We traced how the Upbit hackers concealed the origin of funds and cash out stolen ETH through exchanges.

Being the central gateway in the cryptocurrency world, it is surprising how little work has been done to characterise the structure of exchanges. This includes their governance structure, how they receive funds and carry-out transactions on behalf of their users. In this post, we analyse the structure of exchanges on the ethereum chain