Acknowledgments: this pub is a summary of collective wisdom from many scholars especially my collaborators in computer science and web3 pioneers in the industry.

Visualization Tools

• ChainAnlaysis: Building Trust in the Ethereum Blockchain

  https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/5/chainalysis-building-trust-in-the-ethereum-blockchain/

• Plotly: Network Graph in Python:

  https://plotly.com/python/network-graphs/

• NetworkX:

  https://networkx.org/

• Raphtory: temporal graph analytics

  https://docs.raphtory.com/en/development/

Conferences

• ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC): https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2022/

• ACM SIGMETRICS:

  https://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2023/

Sample papers:

• Mapping the NFT revolution: market trends, trade networks, and visual features: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-00053-8

• Quantifying NFT-driven networks in crypto art: https://www.networkscienceinstitute.org/publications/quantifying-nft-driven-networks-in-crypto-art

• Inclusion and Democratization Through Web3 and DeFi? Initial Evidence from the Ethereum Ecosystem

  https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4162966

• Is decentralized finance actually decentralized? A social network analysis of the Aave protocol on the Ethereum blockchain

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08401

• The Design Principle of Blockchain: An Initiative for the SoK of SoKs:

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00479

• Blockchain Network Analysis: A Comparative Study of Decentralized Banks

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05632

• AI Ethics on Blockchain: Topic Analysis on Twitter Data for Blockchain Security

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06951

• hat are People Talking about in #BlackLivesMatter and #StopAsianHate? Exploring and Categorizing Twitter Topics Emerging in Online Social Movements through the Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14725